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| The View of my field from the Graveyard wall One villager said that the collection of hen coops looked like a small Ukrainian hamlet |
I have never felt worried about St Michael's Graveyard, it has never frightened me , even in the pitch black when the footsteps of a rabbit can be amplified by the imagination to sound like the thump thump of some unseen monster!
I find the whole place peaceful and rather welcoming ( ok now I am sounding just a little weird) so if you ever passing Weaver, come a sit with me for a while, I'll make you a coffee and you can watch the chickens go to bed in the shadow of a cemetery
Thank you for that John! I love the higgledy-piggledyness of your hen houses and your hens look so happy. As for sitting with you in the graveyard - that might be the answer to my fear of the dark if I am ever down your way.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with a cemetery at the bottom of my back garden so they hold no terrors for me either. In fact we often go for a walk around our local cemetery as it is almost like a wild life sanctuary, peaceful with loads of different birds. We've even been known to take a flask and sandwiches.... now that's weird. lol
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We often take a spin around Woodlawn Park Cemetery and joke about our "vacation property" that we purchased there. It is a beautiful place with lots of old trees. So peaceful. No one is going to come climbing out of the graves after you Weaver...what was, still is and what is, will always be.
ReplyDeleteI love your hen yard John. The girls look so happy there.
Hello John:
ReplyDeleteWe agree that there is something rather lovely about English [and indeed Welsh] churchyards for they often have a peace and tranquility rarely to be found in modern day life.
The dead ones can't hurt ya, I'm more afraid of the live ones :-O
ReplyDeleteWe always headed for the cemetary when we bunked off school. I wonder if thats where my love of Gothic took root?
I have no problems with graveyards, now... dark alleys and unlit roads... that's another story.
ReplyDeleteFor someone who has always wanted to be an undertaker I do agree with you about graveyards, they are very peaceful and somewhere to collect your thoughts...does that make me weird?
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I, too, find a cemetery to be a peaceful place. Particularly "over there."
ReplyDeleteI live next to a cemetery. ("Nice quiet neighbours" said the real estate agent who sold me the place. Groan.) It's very peaceful and I often walk through it on my way to the village.
ReplyDeleteHi John
ReplyDeleteMy mum lives next to a local church and grave yard. As a teen I used to sneak in during the early hours but the flippin church clock chimes would always give the game away!
As per previous comment I agree it's the living that folk need to be worried about not the dead buggers
Jane
I too have spent much time in graveyards as a monumental mason, and - although I cannot claim to have buried as many stiffs as Joan Collins - I am completely at rest in those places. Well, not completely, but you know what I mean. It's the living that scare the shit out of me.
ReplyDeleteI like walking through cemetaries, especially the old Civil War ones here. We are just a few miles from Franklin, Tennessee site of one of the greatest Civil War battles with casualties both from the North and South buried there.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a peaceful resting ground, for young and old alike, who fought believing in their rights.
I also love graveyards, I love finding very old ones and reading all the headstones. I have never felt afraid or spooked in one. Old highway 49 in California has so many from the Gold Rush...they were done by craftsmen,without computers or machines to do the carving..Just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love the Ukranian hamlet! And I agree, graveyards can be very peaceful (well, obviously) relaxing places to visit.
ReplyDeleteJohn, your little thriving community must have really woken up the village as they watched it grow!
ReplyDeleteGraveyards....one of my favourite places. No one to bug you!
I agree with Tom, Its some of the living we should be much more worried about LOL
ReplyDeleteYour hen yard looks lovely! Hope Bacon Bits is doing well :O).
aside from the cemetery part, this scene almost reminds me of my childhood growing up on our poultry/beef farm. nice work.
ReplyDeleteIt's never the dead we need to fear John...the scary ones are the living!
ReplyDeleteI love old grave yards especially in places like South Carolina and Georgia. Each marker, if you can read it, tells so much about those who lived before us. In the north, we have more abbreviated ones.
ReplyDeleteJohn, weird or not, I am a graveyard junkie! They are so peaceful and relaxing. It fills my mind with curiosity and excitement, to think about all of the lives that were lived. It's a real treat for the imagination. Cemetaries absolutley fascinate me. ;)
ReplyDeleteThings that go bump in the night
ReplyDeleteshould not really give us a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
that lets in the fear.
That, and the absence of light.
Milligan.
I've said before that I'd rather live next to a graveyard than a highway. m.
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