Malcolm Stoneman

That’s a shame.

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Daffodils are a real picture here at the moment.
Hoping to see some double headed ones soon.

Oh yes, especially on sourdough. 🤔😋😄

I’m imagining, starting the day with warm toast, homemade marmalade & a coffee. 😋😋

Absolutely & the exterior door is also very impressive.

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Thank you, but the team at St Michael’s Mount deserve praise for providing such clear information.

Daffodils against church wall.

👀 Coffee time ☕️ ☕️🌺 -
Wansford, Near Peterborough

Daffodils - 📷 25.02.2026

#elevensestime

We occasionally get Fen fogs in Norfolk or Coastal fogs in Devon which can be very atmospheric, but they don’t last for long (thank goodness).

I supposed the sous chefs claws could have come in useful for zesting. 🤔😄
Trust the “marmalade-ing” went well.
Anne

Museum caption - “This is the seal of Richard Auncell, Prior of St Michael's Mount from 1385 to 1410. It would have been used to authenticate Priory documents. Richard Auncell was the first English prior during the long period, starting in the 11th century, that the Mount belonged to Mont-St-Michel in Normandy. The seal was discovered during building work at Exeter Cathedral in the 1840s and subsequently given to Syon Abbey for safekeeping. Syon Abbey had owned the Mount from 1415, when Henry the Fifth confiscated it from Mont-St-Michel, until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry the Eighth 120 years later. When Syon Abbey itself closed in 2011, the Abbess kindly gave the seal to St Michael's Mount and it returned home after 6 centuries.”

Seal of Richard Auncell
Prior of St Michael's Mount. 1385-1410

Discovered during building work at Exeter Cathedral 1840.

Returned to the Mount after 600 years in 2011.

See ALT text for 🇫🇷 history of priory - Mont-St-Michel.

Now St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall.
@nationaltrust.org.uk

#FindsFriday

Boundary post for Huntingdons (Huntingdonshire) & Soke of Peterboro (Peterborough).

Bridge reflected in waters of River Nene.

Wansford, Near Peterborough.

Boundary post marking division between the old counties of Huntingdonshire & the Soke of Peterborough.

The post is on the bridge above the waters of the River Nene.

Not quite #FingerpostFriday
#LocalHistory
#Reflections

Circular stone font with dentil course, foliage & 13 arches with carvings of preachers, men fighting & a baptism.

St Mary’s Church, Wansford, Near Peterborough.

Font (c. 1120)

13 arches of carving, including a preacher (evangelist?).

“A quite exceptional piece of carving” - Pevsner. @yalepress.bsky.social

Found at Sibberton & placed on the base of another font in 20th Century.

#FontsOnFriday #Romanesque

Thanks.
Interesting ….. not sure about the Swan Hotel?!?! It has been boarded up for ages, with the promise of refurbishment, if someone will lease it! 🤷‍♂️

Oh!
We’re not sure which is worse. 🤷‍♂️

Met a lady from Oregon yesterday at Sandringham. She was singing the praises of her home state; the mountains, the Pacific coast, but she did admit to not liking the Winter fogs!

Yes, I was enjoying the fresh air, the amount of Bluesky & blue water, together with the vivid green of the new crops coming through.

Great - The Fens were looking marvellous today & the wind was not too strong. 😄

Poppylots Drove Is there a connection with the treatment of malaria?!?! “The dried residue obtained from the juice of opium poppies was broken into small pieces and taken by mouth to alleviate symptoms of Fen ague (malaria) and rheumatism” - Deepings Heritage

Isolated cottage, telegraph poles, undulating road & large open fields.

Large straight watercourse.

Large straight watercourse.

🚴‍♀️ The Fens, Norfolk

• Huge open fields, water courses & undulating roads.
• Isolated cottages & telegraph/electricity poles
• Middle Level Drain - Neeps Bridge
• Middle Level Drain - Morton’s Bridge

White plum blossom

👀 Coffee time ☕️ ☕️🌺 -
Downham Market, Norfolk

Our old plum tree just keeps on blooming - 📷 05.03.2026

#elevensestime

Panelled doors with cross wing like design.

Music Room doors of the Behrens House
#Mathildenhöhe #Darmstadt #Germany
1900/01

Made by H. E. Eggers of Hamburg in wood, aluminium & bronze.

Displayed Institut Mathildenhöhe, Städtische Kunstsammlung Darmstadt

#AdoorableThursday
#MetalworkThursday
#Jugendstil #ArtNouveau

Plymouth Argyle, before 1979, Beryl Cook

Dyno-Rod by Beryl Cook

Highly recommend the #BerylCook exhibition at The Box in Plymouth.

Underrated in her time, she captured ordinary life and joyful moments wtih wit and warmth.

#artsky

Beryl Cook exhibition advert.

Absolutely! 👏👏👏

We loved the exhibition for the art, but also for learning so much more about Beryl’s life.
The four larger than life statues of characters from Beryl’s paintings are fun to locate on the streets of Plymouth.

Custom House & warehouses reflected in the waters of the Purfleet.

King’s Lynn Customs House, Norfolk. 1683.

"One of the finest late 17th Century public buildings in provincial England" - #Pevsner
@yalepress.bsky.social

Originally a Merchants' Exchange, becoming a Custom House in 1718.

#Reflections #LocalHistory

A circular terracotta relief featuring a face with a wide grin and its tongue sticking out. The face is framed by wavy, snake-like hair.

A terracotta antefix with the head of Medusa, the snake-haired creature whose sight turns everyone to stone.
Medusa’s head was a popular motif and used to ward off any evil.
Antifixes were used to conceal the ends of the tiles that ran along the edge of roofs. Ca. 480 BC

📷 me

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White hellebore

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
Ickworth, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Hellebore - 📷 Anne S. - 28.02.2026

#elevensestime

Brick & flint walls of new exhibition gallery.

“A crinkle crankle wall, also known as a wavy or serpentine wall, is a garden wall built in a series of alternating convex and concave curves.” Wikipedia

Gainsborough House Museum, Sudbury, Suffolk.

• New exhibition building of 2019-22.
• Crinkle crankle (wavy) garden wall.

#WallsOnWednesday

Pelican feeding its young in the nest, with dragon/devil like creatures to left & right.

Cathedral of St Nicholas,
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear

“Pelican in its piety”, with devil/dragon like creatures.

Choir stalls & misericords by cathedral architect R J Johnson & carved by Ralph Hadley -1882.

#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday

It’s not quite the same as Devon/Cornwall cliffs, but it is a favourite part of Norfolk for a beach walk.

Agreed, but not just from 800 years ago, there are fine images from Etruscan, Greek or Roman times.
An eye for art is not just a modern concept.

Exactly!
Even Owen remembers it & especially the Hound of the Basket Meals.

Yes, agreed.
The silk pattern with the hops design is thought to be used for another dress i.e. for the daughter of a London brewer.