And the last two full days in England

were spent going to church at Kelvedon on Sunday; taking Kathy to look for those items which seemed hard to find; and a final ring at Stisted on Monday evening. Tuesday morning off to Heathrow on the A120 - M11 and M25. BA flight 289 to Phoenix was not full and had a reduced cabin crew. Spent Wednesday in Phoenix then flew Great Lakes airline to Show Low where Chris and Steve collected us; and now we're home with the cats and dogs . . .

5 June Day Thirty-Three

A visit with an old friend in Eye, Suffolk. On the way I stopped to take another picture of Dedham Vale

After detouring to Felixtowe we called on Johnny at Woodbridge (I missed a turn again) to give him a lift to Eye; he was our navigator through the beautiful Suffolk countryside. After a relaxing lunch with Corinne, Scott, Elizabeth and Jade we walked with Corinne to the parish church and up the castle hill to the folly then back to the Pest House for tea and cake.  Here is a site with an excellent review of the purpose of a pest house and  at Odiham there is a pest house open to the public.  Few examples remain.

And the view of the church from the castle mound

Interior of the parish church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. The church underwent a major restoration in 1869 and in the last century Ninian Comper restored the rood and the east window.

On the way home Kathy had to stop for a pint at The Old Anchor, Feering

I mentioned Sir Ninian Comper, a name familiar to me from church crawling days around the fine and the humble churches of East Anglia, forgetting his is not a household name with the familiarity of modern celebrity.

4 June Day Thirty-Two

Another beautiful day to take a few more pictures of the Essex countryside.

Cressing Temple Barns

The other side of the bridge over the river Brain that I photographed last year

The old forge at Chipping 

 Hill

Cottages along Church Street, Chipping Hill

St Andrew, Belchamp St Paul. This is where I rang this evening

3 June Day Thirty-One

Shopping trip to Colchester and lunch at The Hole In The Wall on Balkerne Hill. Then, you guessed it, ringing in the evening at St George's church, Sible Hedingham.

2 June Day Thirty

Chill out day then ringing at St Nicholas, Chipping Hill, Witham in the evening. Eight; tenor 18cwt. A visiting American thought I was American. I must stop 'D'ing my 'T's and not use American idiom.

 St Nicholas, Chipping Hill, Witham. Pity about the power line . . .

Day twenty-nine

Derbyshire dales

A rainy day. Time to unwind. Lunch at The Compasses, Pattiswick. Ringing tonight? Yes, at Feering.