Oxcombe farm and pottery

Open day for potters. This photo doesn't reflect the numbers of people who turned out; the earlier queues for food and drink were impressive or intimidating depending on whether you were selling or buying. 

The sun was also out earlier on, when I should have taken a picture.

Oxcombe is one of a number of deserted medieval villages in the Lincolnshire Wolds (this year celebrating 50 years as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), many of which were recipients of the ecclesiastical architectural attention of W A Nicholson, who designed small churches which were built in places within relatively easy walking distances of each other in the 1840s. All but one are now not used for church services and are under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust or the Friends of Friendless Churches. 

Pretending to be a friend of a church or any non-human entity strikes me as at best being a one-sided (so certainly not friendly) arrangement, and logically a nonsense. But, hey, whatever myth/dream/conspiracy theory helps you through the day!