Thursday Doors: Nouic (3)
Posted on July 5, 2018
A final instalment of doors from the neighbouring village of Nouic.
One can only hazard a guess as to the original purpose of the small building with the green door:
More double doors that have seen better days:
But don’t get the impression that all the doors in Nouic are falling apart:
Even if it does seem to be the exception rather than the rule:
Door of the week? This one, probably:
Thursday Doors 5 July 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Colourful
Posted on June 30, 2018
A colourful sample of the wild flowers mix that we sowed last year.
(Late this week; traveling)
The Swan
Posted on June 29, 2018
This swan was sailing, as majestically as only swans can, on the waterway that runs through the formal gardens of Chateau Villandry.
Thursday Doors: Nouic Gates
Posted on June 28, 2018
As promised, this week a selection of gates from the nearby village of Nouic.
A little poignant, this first one. That car has been sitting behind those rusting gates since before we moved to this area almost six years ago.
Next, two nicely matched gates from another empty house – although this one has just been occupied again.
A similar, if rather plainer, gate from just along the road:
And finally, two rather grander sets of gates from the area around the church:
Thursday Doors 28 June 2018
One Horse Or Two?
Posted on June 22, 2018
I took this photograph a couple of years ago at a ‘Spectacle’ featuring birds of prey in nearby St-Germain-de-Confolens.
The answer to the rhetorical question in the title is actually ‘two’, although the optical illusion is that it’s just a single horse, albeit one with a very long neck. Either way, I think the image is quite striking.
Thursday Doors: Nouic (2)
Posted on June 21, 2018
Another selection of doors from just down the road in the village of Nouic. These first two examples illustrate how a little bit of TLC can rejuvenate a not so much tired as absolutely knackered old building:
And while the doors are coming in sets of two, here’s another example:
Yet another set of two for your delectation (if you count the little green one on the left):
But tat’s always better, isn’t it?
Although I think this is my favourite from this week’s selection – a set of former pigsties:
Next week, just for a change, how about some gates?
Thursday Doors 21 June 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: New
Posted on June 20, 2018
These paper wasps seem to have got the idea that they can build a new nest right outside the back door of my salon. Sorry, guys – that’s not going to happen.
The Railway Station, Beverley
Posted on June 15, 2018
The railway station at Beverley, in East Yorkshire, retains much of its original, Victorian architectural features. A view from the level crossing on a quiet Sunday morning gives a slightly different perspective from the one travellers usually see.
Thursday Doors: Nouic
Posted on June 14, 2018
(We had no internet connection for five days last week, so I’m afraid you’ve had to wait a bit longer for your next dose of doors from the depths of the French countryside.)
The village – and commune – of Nouic could be described as ‘the next one along’ from our home base of Mézières-sur-Issoire, about a ten-minute drive in a generally southerly direction.
Even its greatest proponents would be hard-pressed to argue that, architecturally, there’s anything special about it (you could say the same for Mézières, in all honesty), but over the next couple of weeks or so, I can at least demonstrate that it’s got some interesting doors.
I read somewhere that the official distinction between a village and a hamlet is that the former has a church – which Nouic indeed does:
More informally, any self-respecting French village also has to have a hairdressers’, so that ticks another box. (Mézières has two. Just sayin’.)
In my personal opinion, however, this is the most striking building in Nouic:
Although most are much more prosaic, even if you can get two for the price of one in some cases:
More from Nouic next week.
Thursday Doors 14 June 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Age
Posted on June 12, 2018
Almost exactly 74 years ago today, on 10th June 1944, a company of SS troops massacred 642 residents – mostly women and children – of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Haute-Vienne département of south-west France.
Since then, the site has been maintained as a memorial and museum, left to age unaltered, the buildings weathering and walls collapsing.
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