Postcard from France

Gargoyle at Notre Dame

The country for this week’s postcard challenge is France.  Immediately I thought about food – bread, cheese and wonderful patisseries – but then I reined in my stomach and considered the other things I love about France.  Although I haven’t been gargoyle or grotesque hunting in France, I would love to visit Notre Dame with [...]

Homegrown Gargoyle

Homegrown Gargoyle

In between all of my walking, waiting, telephone calling and being uber-organised I finished my gargoyle.  Well, actually it’s a grotesque.  It’s taken me about 6 weeks to make from start to finish although most of that was waiting for the lump of clay to dry. It started as a sketch: Then I realised my [...]

The Glastonbury Gargoyle

Glastonbury Abbey

We headed out today to one of my most favourite places on Earth – Glastonbury in Somerset.   We just went shopping – didn’t even attempt the Tor today.  I even left my camera at home but I got out my mobile and took a few photos. This is the nearest we got to the Abbey… [...]

Flowers, Crypts and Gargoyles

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Friday was my birthday and it went really well considering it fell on Friday 13th this year. Nothing weird or unlucky happened apart from taking a detour home from Guildford due to a humongous traffic pile up which piled up for MILES. So MrT and I had an adventure. A very long adventure. BUT we [...]

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