A Round Trip To Birmingham 1

[poliphilo]

We bought a rabbit hutch on eBay- and had to drive to Birmingham to fetch it- a round trip of about 200 miles. We went down on the motorway (with one brief detour) and came back through Derbyshire- and some of the loveliest landscapes in England. It as a perfect early spring day with the cherries and blackthorns in bloom, the daffodils still out and the leaves just beginning to show on the trees.

We stopped to eat our sandwiches here- outside St. Laurence's, Chapel Chorlton, Staffs.

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[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I think that's what I love about churches and cathedrals, too. And what makes them truly special is the fact that so many of them are doing exactly what they've always done. You get an immediate sense of being part of history, rather than glimpsing something that's passed out of history, if you see what I mean, like a ruined castle, or whatever.

I got a similar sensation at Fort George barracks, too. Built in the Hanoverian period, and still occupied by soldiers. Even though they seemed to be spending their time rescuing seagulls instead of subduing seditious Scots when I went visiting there...