For Dan: a gull

Final few from Lichfield. Click to enlarge, or see the rest here.

Lichfield Cathedral South Aisle

Shit gets dumped on me when I'm trying to read too.

This chap was performing for the tourists as far from the sea as it's possible to get in the UK - Lichfield. I had the wrong lens on but they came out OK. Is it a black-headed gull? More on the full set.

This is what we've done to our towns. I've desaturated it for effect too.

No tripod or warning, but still a useful shot of a high-speed train

Sausage! SAUSAGE!

By which I refer, of course, to Blackadder the Third's depiction of 'the big batey fellow in the black', known to history as Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first Dictionary of the English language. The entire episode starts here, and the 'sausage' reference is explained by this sequence (from 12.48 minutes). It's true, too. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to check the dictionary for rude words when we visited his house, as is usually compulsory (11 minutes in).

But why am I dribbling on about Johnson? Because on Saturday, I mooched around in his home town, Lichfield, graced also by one of the most elegant cathedrals in the country.

I took some photographs, which you may view here: below are some samples: click to enlarge. If anyone can identify the various flowers here or on the Flickr site, that would be great. I recognise the roses, by the way.

The new gargoyles don't look entirely Christian even to my atheist eyes. In fact they're more Buffy or the 'Blink' episode of Doctor Who than devotional

I've desaturated this - I think it works quite well

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