Practicing

This morning we had booked for a guided tour of RAF Coningsby, Battle of Britain Memorial Museum. Very interesting. While we were there, our guide needed to often pause his talk while a Typhoon landed or took off. Coningsby is a training ground for specialist pilots and, this week, rehearsing for the special flypast on Thursday for the Queen's Platinum Jublilee. The blip is of two planes landing with all the heat haze.

After this  we headed out for some ruins in my book 'Wild Ruins' - three more now ticked off. One extra is Barlings Abbey, where the only remaining evidence is a sliver of the old nave wall. The other extra is at Bardney Abbey where hardly anything remains. You need imagination to envisage the pillar bases of the choir underneath the mounds. There is the odd stone visible as the remains were covered over for protection after excavations. I found it all very atmospheric; it's important to realise the significance of what these places were rather than what they are now. 

Another full day.