Ancient doorway

N and I drove over to Cerne Abbas for a walk and tea in a teashop this afternoon (we ate hot buttered teacakes!). The village nestles in a valley in the Dorset Downs and is famous for the Cerne Giant, an ancient carving on the hillside in chalk. Will blip that another time! There is only a very small ruin of the old Abbey remaining now and a Holy Spring in the bottom of the graveyard surrounded by Lime trees. A picture postcard village of thatched cottages and small redbrick Georgian houses, it becomes very crowded in summer but this afternoon the autumnal sun was shedding a golden light on everything and there were only a few hikers about.

In Abbey Street, there is an old terrace of timbered houses built in the late Middle Ages and this is the doorway to No 5. The lintel is decorated with quatrefoils and forms an ogee shape. One would have to watch one's weight as the doorway is not very wide!

T and K enjoyed the wedding yesterday and arrived back in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately I had to wake T to tell him the Herefords were out again and eating his kale. Luckily P the Kiwi had appeared by then after yesterday's great rugby match and the two of them drove the animals back into their field.