Signs of Change in the Post

A couple weeks ago, two letters came in the post: one with the queens head (which has been the only head on a stamp since moving here) and one with the kings head on.  This is the first appearance of the kings head for me.  It is interesting because I do not use stamps: I just print out the postage at home. It has no monarchs head... just a QR code.  And I rarely handle cash.  So there will be little opportunity there.  I guess I feel like in the past there would have been this distinct change that shows up in ordinary life via cash and stamps but now these are not so much present in the ordinary lives of some.  I suspect for younger people, it will be even less.

Barrows, some stone circles, and other stuff

A few recent trips.

In April, Flowerdown Barrows, a well preserved bronze-age  disc barrow (about 4000 year old)

Only a short walk away from the barrows, resourceful Littleton has converted a telephone box into a library (at least 70 years old based on the shape of the crown)

And a short jaunt over to Winchester where we perused the ruin of Wolvesey Castle (around 900 years old)

Next door in the Winchester Cathedral (parts of it are as old as Wolvesey) where we saw a GreenMan carved into a column

And this Antony Gormley sculpture (40 years old) in the crypt (around 900 years old) with the haunting groundwater infiltration

In May, we ventured to Scotland and visited Croft Moraig stone circle (4000 years old, evidence of timber posts from 5000 years ago)

We also stopped at the Scottish Crannog Centre nearby with a delightful mix of artefacts and reproductions and the most engaging staff you will be meet at a museum.  The image is a reproduction of a 2500 year old crannog.

Kinnell stone cirlce (maybe 3000 years old)

And we stopped at Hadrians Wall (about 2000 years old) on the way home.

Also ate in a bridge over the motorway

All photographs by my beloved and I except for the Crannog: https://lochtay.co.uk/things-to-do/attractions/scottish-crannog-centre/