I went out for a mile and a half walk this morning to make the most of the gloriously sunny morning before Storm Claudio makes like the ocean and dumps a few tons of water on our heads! Of course, my knee regrets it, but my anxiety doesn’t, so fuck my knee, basically!
Anyway, I went out to photograph some Georgian postboxes (as I do! Because yes, taking photos of postboxes is absolutely a thing I do now!) and while I was out, I grabbed some other photos too of things that caught my eye.
[ID Photo of an old fashioned iron lamppost against a cottage and a gloriously sunny blue sky.]
[ID Photo of gold Autumn leaves on a tree against a gloriously sunny blue sky. Contrasted against the tree is an old-fashioned iron street lamp.]
These cast iron lampposts are common in the older part of Headington where I was walking this morning.
[ID Photo of a blue plaque mounted on a stone pineapple topped gate post. The plaque reads: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board Sir Isaiah Berlin OM 1909 - 1997 Historian of ideas lived her 1956 - 1997 Oxford Jewish Heritage]
There are at least three of these Oxfordshire Blue Plaques in Old Headington. Another is to Elizabeth Bowen - though I didn’t see that one this morning.
[ID Photo of the doorway to a building that is labelled (above the door) Formerly The Blacksmith's & The Farrier's workshop.]
I’ve never seen this before, though granted it’s been 30 odd years since I was down this end of Headington, so that’s not surprising!
[ID Two photos showing Autumnal trees against a gloriously sunny blue sky.]
And here are the two George V wall postboxes that were the reason I went for a mile and a half walk this morning!
The second one had recently had a new coat of paint because I could see the paint drips on the wall to the right of the box.
