\nI woke up early on Sunday morning and of course went for a walk. The village was still sleeping, but the sunrise was glorious:
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<\/p>\nAlternate 1<\/em> Alternate 2<\/em> Alternate 3<\/em> Alternate 4<\/em> Alternate 5<\/em> Alternate 6<\/em> Alternate 7<\/em> Alternate 8<\/em> That evening we flew home to Alicante, and I had my hernia surgery Tuesday afternoon. After I came back from the hospital Wednesday mid-day, I was not very mobile.<\/p>\n Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> The rest of the trip to England is documented here<\/a> (London) and here<\/a> (Bath). I even have a tiny gallery of my hospital stay here<\/a>. My Leica goes with me wherever I go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The week began in England and ended at home–very much at home, since a hernia operation on Tuesday has reduced my mobility to with a few hundred metres of the house. But we start in Long Ashton, near Bristol. We were visiting our son in Bath over the weekend. Bath is about 15-20 miles from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":175,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\nThe Angel Inn is several hundred years old and used to belong to the village church. The church and cemetery are right behind the pub:
\n![\"L1004826\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt1.jpg\")
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\nAnother neighbour of the inn was this farm, where everyone was still asleep:
\n![\"L1004825\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt2.jpg\")
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\nThis is the main street of Long Ashton. The village has its name from the fact that it is strung out along a 1.5 mile stretch of this road:
\n![\"L1004836\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt3.jpg\")
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\nRoof, chimney and bird:
\n![\"L1004843\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt4.jpg\")
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\nAnother farm I passed on my walk:
\n![\"L1004858\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt5.jpg\")
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\nOne of my all-time favourite pieces of music is William Blake’s hymn “Jerusalem”, especially as performed by Emerson Lake & Palmer. It contains a reference to “England’s green and pleasant land”. This is what the author must have been referring to:
\n![\"L1004852\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt6.jpg\")
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\nOne can also take a close-up view of the green and pleasant land:
\n![\"L1004845\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt7.jpg\")
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\nA couple of hours later, while waiting for the taxi to take us to Bristol, I spotted this memento of some rather famous guests at the Angel Inn:
\n![\"L1004868\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt8.jpg\")
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\nThursday morning I did not leave the house at all, so I was forced to look for images right at home. The shadow cast by one of our terrace chairs caught my eye:
\n![\"L1004900\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt9.jpg\")
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\nBy the afternoon, I was itching to get out and walk, so my daughter and I took our dog for a walk. Cheeta is a strong dog and she pulls hard on the leash, so my daughter had to hold her, which freed me to walk (very slowly) and to take pictures. This one could be titled Cat on Cat; the car is a Jaguar, and evidently one of the homeless cats had been walking all over it:
\n![\"L1004901\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt10.jpg\")
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\nAnother dog walk snap, from Friday afternoon:
\n![\"L1004911\"](\"uploads\/2009\/21alt11.jpg\")
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