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This is the village sign in Mayfield, Sussex- where we stopped off briefly on our way to meet up with Mike and Su and Sej. The children's outfits are very Christopher Robin which suggests it was made in the 1920s. The two figures under the village name are St Dunstan and the Devil. St Dunstan- a local character- was a blacksmith as well as a bishop and when the Devil showed up in his forge he caught him by the nose with his tongs.
I hadn't noticed it at the time but when I came to edit the picture I saw that there's a plane in the sky. and it's a Spitfire.
Why's that significant? Because I've come to associate Spitfires with my mother. And where other peoples' deceased loved ones register their presence by sending a butterfly or a something ethereal like that, my mother sends a Spitfire. (It's likely to always be the same Spitfire, flying trippers through the aerial battlefields of WWII.) Most memorably she had it fly over when we were burying her ashes in Matfield churchyard. Why put in an appearance yesterday? Well, perhaps because we were headed for a rare family get together....
And maybe because she couldn't resist a photo-op in which everything lined up. The 1920s was the decade of her birth and she once created a pottery figure of St Dunstan for a friend of mine. Last time I checked he still had it. Finally as a child she looked not unlike the blonde kid on the left of the sign.
Where in the picture is the plane? Below the wind vane- right under the S for Shirley....
I hadn't noticed it at the time but when I came to edit the picture I saw that there's a plane in the sky. and it's a Spitfire.
Why's that significant? Because I've come to associate Spitfires with my mother. And where other peoples' deceased loved ones register their presence by sending a butterfly or a something ethereal like that, my mother sends a Spitfire. (It's likely to always be the same Spitfire, flying trippers through the aerial battlefields of WWII.) Most memorably she had it fly over when we were burying her ashes in Matfield churchyard. Why put in an appearance yesterday? Well, perhaps because we were headed for a rare family get together....
And maybe because she couldn't resist a photo-op in which everything lined up. The 1920s was the decade of her birth and she once created a pottery figure of St Dunstan for a friend of mine. Last time I checked he still had it. Finally as a child she looked not unlike the blonde kid on the left of the sign.
Where in the picture is the plane? Below the wind vane- right under the S for Shirley....
