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Good Friday. Good Friday was , well, good. The sun shone and Clint (shown above) transported me to a Yorkshire village I had never previously visited - Burghwallis. I had already worked out another long walking route. Before parking in Burghwallis, I made a detour to a larger village called Campsall in order to see a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. Unfortunately, there was a Good Friday service in progress so I didn't get to look round the interior. However I snapped this picture of the magnificent west door which dates back to the twelfth century.:- Also in Campsall, this street sign caught my eye. It says "No Road" but it was a road with several houses on each side. Strange:- On my circular walk from Burghwallis, I noticed this very strange hut in the village of Sutton. It was beneath some electricity lines and connected with the old Yorkshire Electricity Board. It is too narrow to be a lavatorial facility. I have never seen such a hut b...

 I wanted to do something restful today I’ve just worked two twelve hour shifts and am about to do two more. Today I wanted to mooch…quietly I should have helped the community Association volunteers in their planting out of the newly reconstructed village pond but I went to the cinema instead.  This may have rested my sore neck ( my work physio almost pulled my head off during a somewhat energetic therapy session) but resting in the cinema wasnt really therapy as the film wasn’t as good as I expected …hey ho. I went up to the pond later on  to survey their work and I was impressed. Not only has the pond been dredged of silt and mud. Aquatic plants and reeds have been planted on its borders with shrubs, annuals and woodland plants framing it nicely The movie was Operation Mincemeat, a true wartime story of MI5s efforts to try to deceive the Germans by posing the body of Welsh tramp as a British Officer with forged top secret instructions outlining the allie...

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