Tiny Church; Big History

Wednesday is our 'dashing' day after work and school. I pick the kids up from afterschool club and childminder and we get home about 5pm, we then need to be out again for Becky to be at Rainbows for 5.30 - having had tea and got changed. Today this 'dashing' was especially challenging due to the central heating work. I usually come home with Alex after having dropped Becky at Rainbows, but today decided that he and I would go for a drive to stay out of the way of the dust and mess for as long as possible.

This lovely little church is St John the Baptist Church in Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, just a couple of miles from home. The church sits at the gates of Cockayne Hatley Hall which was visited reguarly by the poet William Henley in Victorian times. Henley was friends with JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson and Henley himself was the inspiration for Long John Silver and his daughter, Margaret Henley, was the inspiration for Wendy Darling in Peter Pan. Both are buried in the church yard.