On 19 August, Jackie writes: Sir Galahad
Hamish a/k/a Sir PoopsALot acquired a new title today
as he stood on guard while his girls snoozed . . .
On our way to Louth, we stopped at Alford; it is market day,
so the Corn exchange Hall was open, selling bacon baps,
a soft floury bread roll. We call them rolls in Scotland,
baps in England and buns at McDonald's.
The Corn Exchange has recently been saved and
they are trying to return it to its Victorian glory.
MARE MOORE:
What a lovely building; glad to hear that it's being preserved.
Louth always reminds me of York with its tiny
cobbled alleyways and quaint shops.
We walked down to look at the church; it was inspiring
[was that a pun, Jackie?] . . .
[St. James Church, a nationally-acclaimed fifteenth-century
perpendicular church with a sixteenth-century crocketted spire
which rises 295 feet and is thought to be the highest
parish Church of England spire in the country.]
[A crocket is in the form of a stylized carving of curled leaves,
buds or flowers which are used at regular intervals to decorate
the sloping edges of spires, finials, pinnacles, and wimpergs.]
[In Gothic architecture, a wimperg is a gable-like crowning
over portals and windows and is also called an ornamental gable.
Outside of immediate architecture,
the wimperg is also found as a motif in Gothic carving.]
MARE MOORE:
Impressive! Am not religious by any means,
but have always loved church architecture.
End of a lovely day on the coast . . .
Chili and chips washed down with a pint of best bitter;
how the other half lives. I'm almost a northern lass.
Topped off with a stroll along the beach at sunset . . .
SOME ARTY SHOTS . . .
Who's this David Bailey, anyway?
I thought this big plant looked a bit like a ferris wheel . . .
MARE MOORE:
Is that plant a Scotch Thistle maybe?
I walked all the way to Mablethorpe looking for that plant;
not a thistle in sight. I think this is the same plant in daylight.
I know it as a teazle, but I don't know its real name.
I thought it was the plant in the second pic at first,
then I came across the right one.
[Teazle: a tall prickly Eurasian plant with spiny purple flower heads.
A large, dried, spiny head from a teasel plant, or a device
serving as a substitute for one of these,
used in the textile industry to raise a nap on woven cloth.]
MARE MOORE:
Both teasel and Queen Anne's lace are invasive species over here,
brought to the New World by European settlers. More info HERE
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