the wonderful Manda, whose house (or rather garden) in Ouville is where we pitched our tent |
that isn't her house alas, but it not only locates the area quite well but shows you what it looks like round there... |
this is a house up the lane, with a wonderful Old Pear Tree growing up it - I WANT. |
the Ouville area seems to have a penchant for having fierce Guard Sheep, rather than dogs... |
Ben queens it at a french country fete - most convincing I'm sure you agree... |
a falconer with one of his enormous and rather dangerous looking birds - striking though... |
le tout village donned medieval costume - local toddler jongleurs looking awfully "cute" |
Mark confesses that he is mocking one of the principal rituals of the Catholic Church...
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...while Ben indulges his persistent "looking vague in a pulpit" fetish yet again... |
some very fine early stained glass from Coutances Cathedral - featuring several persons in hell! |
a fortuitously placed Stone, visited after scaring away the great sun-eating eclipse-dragon |
the countryside is littered with cramped graveyards - here is a rather gothic detail of Vauville's |
the hand of the young druid writes in the flames!... well, he was rather drunk at the time and later threw up ;) |
Maximus Bigbonce (Gaius Julius Caesar - as seen by Louis VIV's garden sculptors at Marly) |
the tower roof of a late-romanesque church in Coutances - almost abstract in it's effect. |
the head of a wonderful Sceptre in the Louvre... |
...and the back of said sceptre head... |
... and a bit more - it is only about 3.5 inches high... |
