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Slightly creepy

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Slightly creepy

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 189

Seen at a car boot sale. Both items are just plain weird.

Notices

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Notices

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 188

The notice board at Casterton Church, near Kirkby Lonsdale.

(I've removed the phone numbers, just in case).

Peace

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Peace

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 187

I may be an atheist, but I love this image; not for the cross, but for what it ought to represent, even though it is misused the world over.

What whispers did these walls one hear?

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What whispers did these walls one hear?

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 186

The remains of one of the walls of the great church at St Benet's Abbey, on the banks of the River Bure.

St Benet's was alone in not being dissolved by Henry VIII. Instead, it was made part of the bishopric of Norwich; to this day, the Bishop of Norwich is the Abbot of St Benet's, though the abbey itself has long since fallen into ruin.

All that remains

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All that remains

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 185

The ruins of St Benet's Abbey on the banks of the River Bure.

This is an amazing set of ruins. Not only are parts of the abbey still there, but there's also the remains of a wind pump that was built inside the ruins themselves.

Even better than that is the graffiti, carved into the stone. The recent stuff is nothing special - pen-knive scratchings on the soft brickwork of the pump tower - but into the abbey ruins, beautifully chiselled into the old stones, are things like "C.T. Alcock, 1902" and "W.B, 1912." The oldest one I found said, simply, "1895."

So many years of history, all in one place.

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Graham Binns is a writer and software developer from Lancaster, England, with rather too much hair. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working on a second.

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