We had a really first class evening's entertainment at a boxing show we attended last night.
It started raining here approximately 9.30 am today, and it's still pouring down.
I had a few jobs that needed doing outside and got quite wet. That's life I suppose.
The guys in the trenches during the first World War for instance didn't have the option of going in-doors.
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
I was looking at this photograph with the fancy cut privet hedge. There used to be a great number of hedges in the UK with fancy cuts, animals, birds, people, small cottages, cars etc.
Not so many nowadays unless they are in specialist attractions or some of the 'Stately Home' type gardens.
Obviously the cost of cutting the shapes and maintaining the same prohibit the features.
You do come across plenty in Thailand though. Elephants appear to be the most popular.
You can see Pendle Hill quite clearly on this photograph.
( A little 'Witch' info here from the Net with regard to Pendle Hill )
Pendle Hill Lancashire King James I of England hated witches and was determined to stamp out the practice of witchcraft. This led to an era of persecution for those who were rightly or wrongly accused of the practice. In 1612 local magistrates conducted witch hunts. As a result of these witch hunts was one of the most famous witch trails in the history of England. Alizon Device was arrested accused of putting a curse on a peddler, after he had refused to sell her some pins, which led him to be paralysed. Alizon admits to what she had done and the peddler forgives her, but his son brought it to the authorities’ attention. Alizon incriminates two others Demdike and Chattox. Investigations took place at Demdikes home Malkin towers and human bones and clay figures were found which were of people who had died in recent years. The magistrates continued their witch hunt and arrested 11 in total Alizon Device Elizabeth Device James Device Alison Whittle (Chattox) Anne Redferne Alice Nutter Katherine Hewitt John Bulcock Jane Bulcock Isobel Robey And Elizabeth Southerns (Demdike) They were all imprisoned at Lancaster Castle and tried on the 17th August. Demdike died whilst awaiting trail but was still considered to be a witch based on the evidence they had gathered, the others were publicly hanged. Also besides these there was Jennet Preston who lived just over the Lancashire Border, she was tried in Yorkshire and hanged at York and Margaret Pearson, who was found guilty of witchcraft but not of murder, she was given a prison sentence of one year. Magistrates wondered why the witches incriminated others, but they found out that Demdike and Chattox used to be friends but fell out over some stolen clothes and this resulted in them and their family’s feuding, and this was probably the reason they did it, to seek revenge and to retaliate against each other. Demdike had said in her confession that the usual way that they had used to kill their victims were to make an ethigy of the intended victim and then over a period of time would crumble or burn it and this would cause the victim to fall ill and die.