Photos from around my Village today

hollydolly

hollydolly

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Today it was cold but quite sunny just 4 degrees C (39 deg f) here...

Took the camera out with me and snapped a few photos of my tiny village thought you might like to see some..:D


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This is a small farm on the edge of the village, on the other side of the hedge wall is the lane which leads to my house..


This is the tiny Village green in the centre of the village with the Bus stop ( the little hut), and the phone box next to it..

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it reminds me of the village i use to live in , we are so lucky to still have small villages ,Everyone probably knows each other .,and there's a community feel
Is that a railway Carriage in the garden of one .?
 
Beautiful pictures, Hollydolly. Love the architecture and the bridge.

Do you know what kind of (green) grass is growing there? Fescue? Do you mow it in the winter?
 
Thank you all.. :D Yes Lady..it's a railway carriage in my neighbours' garden

Nancy I do not have any idea what type of grass is growing on the green I suspect it's the creeping red fescue . The council mows it on a regular basis
 
Wow! What a great little village and good photos too. In your last photo I saw something we just don't seem to have anymore, a public telephone booth.
 
Thanks Falcon and Jim.

yes Jim , although the majority of red phone boxes have gone from the towns and cities (except London) there's still thousands dotted around the country mainly in the villages and in remote outlying areas for example in the highlands of Scotland .. many have had the actual phone taken out and are used as decoration..one village not far away has converted theirs into a tiny library..LOL..some are full of flowers...but ours and the surrounding close villages all still have working telephone boxes.
 
hollydolly said:
Thanks Falcon and Jim.

yes Jim , although the majority of red phone boxes have gone from the towns and cities (except London) there's still thousands dotted around the country mainly in the villages and in remote outlying areas for example in the highlands of Scotland .. many have had the actual phone taken out and are used as decoration..one village not far away has converted theirs into a tiny library..LOL..some are full of flowers...but ours and the surrounding close villages all still have working telephone boxes.
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The one containing the library must only hold one copy of this:

The thickest published book measures 322 mm (12.67 in) in width and was unveiled by HarperCollins in London, UK, on 20 May 2009. All Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories - 12 novels and 20 short stories - are collected and published in this volume. The book contains 4,032 pages and weighs 8.04 kg. There are 68 crimes committed; 11 philandering lovers; 68 secrets and lies; 22 false accusations; 59 red-herrings and 21 romances. In all, 43 murders are solved: 12 poisonings; 6 strangulations; 2 drownings; 2 stabbings; a burning; one blow to the head; one death by an arrow and 2 people pushed. 143 cups of tea are drunk in the massive volume, there are 66 maids and 47 garments are knitted. 500 copies of this limited edition record-breaking book will be produced and they will retail at £1,000 each.

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Well we also have millions of cell phones here too.... funnily enough the home landline seems to have suffered even more than the public phone box..
 
Holly, your photos are lovely and the area you live in is beautiful with the emerald green and lush landscape....thanks for taking the time to post.
 
Nice pics Holly. Wish we had a bus shelter in our village. Thankfully the phone box provides a shelter for us, in fact Mr Oakapple and myself waited for the bus into Oxford in the [discontinued] phone box yesterday.
 
Very nice pictures Holly, the one pic made me think of an old spot I used to wait for the bus, on my way to school, in my old hometown in New Rochelle NY, they had a little wait area similar to that, but that was some 40 years ago, not sure if that one particular spot still exist sort of a fond memory. Very lovely photos all around.
 

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