Spiky

Departure day from Swindon. It’s been a good week, my brother and SiL have been excellent hosts. Before I headed northwards we all watched the men’s synchronised diving from Paris. It was a good competition, a well deserved gold for the Chinese pair and a silver for the GB pair at Tom Daly’s fifth Olympics.

I stopped en-route at Cirencester, which is where I took my spiky image for the Mono Monday challenge. The weathered medieval jester on the huge porch of this rich Cotswold wool church has a surrounding army of spikes to deter pigeons from landing. An extra for context.

I was flagging a bit on my stop over. Temperatures of 29°c are not for me.

Then onwards to Worcester, where I am spending a couple of nights so I can dip into the 3 Choirs Festival before returning home. First of all a cooling drink in the Premier Inn’s restaurant area with a fine view of the county ground cricket pitch (extra). Then this evening two concerts. The first in the cathedral, culminating in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass for the Endangered” and preceded by music by Cameron Biles-Liddell, Judith Weir and Elgar was excellent. Then a late night concert in College Hall presented by the Lay Clerks, eight men and four women, was really enjoyable. I wondered if I would cope with an event finishing at 11.15pm which is a bit late for me, but it was fine.