View over Burial Ground

A bit of a rushed blip today, as I've been most of the day tied up with meetings and even now just got back from the monthly parish council meeting (which we completed slightly earlier than we do normally). So let me show you our burial ground, which as it happens was the reason I became a parish councillor in the first place.

The burial ground was created from a paddock gifted to us by a local landowner, and was opened at spring equinox 2013 after a long period of levelling and grading, planting and sewing. We had to have a Time Team type invasive ground survey to establish no medieval remains existed as we border a grade one listed church and closed churchyard.

The ground is segregated into the actual interment area, a wildflower area into which we will expand in a decade or three, a lavender bordered rose garden in which ashes may be freely scattered, and a space awaiting an oak frame shelter and memorial board. Your opinions may vary as to whether our residents enjoy the location, but of a certainty those who tend their loved ones graves do. It's a lovely, peaceful place,

From the burial ground you can look over the village to the Cotswold escarpment, and the rising Sun breaks above the escarpment each morning and bathes the ground in light until it sets behind the photographer.

Ever rushing, even (or especially) now I'm retired, I'm off to North Wales tomorrow to fettle my mother's ailing computer (why didn't I buy her a Mac?). The next few days therefore may turn out to be Back Blips.