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61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.

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I'm equally smitten by Samson and the terrific manes.

I doubt the dental examination is all that well appreciated, though the lion's bid to star in the next is there for us all to see. Bible 1445.

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I've saved this contribution until well after the watershed

Here, a miniature of Delilah binding Samson to a bed. His lavish locks are evident. Bible, 1445. Manuscripts & Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

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I'll have another serving of haughty please. In fact, let "self-satisfied" be the order of the day!

Creation of the animals
Bible, Germany c. 1445
New York Public Library, MA 104.

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The porch and adjacent dormer window at St Helen's looked beautiful in the crisp winter sunshine.

The South wall of the nave has a C17th timber-framed porch (restored C19th). Above is a C19th dormer with gable on carved brackets.

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Hoping that you are having a fine day - two favourite little birdies by Cicely Englefield.

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The versatility of owls, much in evidence on this courtesy of the CSM Museum & Study Collection.

Left, Minerva with owl, showing off a classical, elegant, vibe. By Celia Fiennes (1902 - 1998).

Right, 1958, delightfully dumpy down to Earth owl, by Roger Warren.

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Artists' Christmas & New Year greetings; another in an erratic series! Two glorious examples here.

Left, wood engraving, Christmas Card 1957, by Dame Eileen Mayo.

Right, New Year card, 1949, by the same artist, a distinguished printmaker, painter and designer.

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It was watching 's lecture on stained glass that revealed to me the wondrous work of Christopher Whitworth Whall.

To me, his students' pencil drawings of oak leaves are breathtakingly lovely . Nature studies for a stained glass design, 1910s, V & A.

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Just to refresh your memory, Posy, the 1st Mr December (each month merits 2 rugby players) had a remarkably polished bottom.

No was shocked by the displaying of this image in my "office".

Though Arthur Bonneval from Toulouse may be feeling the cold just a bit.

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Faintly Unsettling Christmas Cards - an occasional series.

Bells are an uncontroversial choice, but these Bells have naked bellringers visible in the clapper of one bell. NAKED!

1933 Wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, for the BBC. He married Gertrude Hermes in 1926.

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