Overnight change.

One of those days when you wake up to find the world has changed. Last nights shooting in Pennsylvania came too late for the European papers. This morning the radio and television broadcasters desperately trying to find background on Thomas Crooks and cool heads to make sense of what's happened. An angry American Senator on the radio blames the Secret Services incompetence and says this 'Communist coup' guarantees a GOP victory. The stridency of his comments make it clear this is no ordinary Sunday morning. 'The Font' observes that we were in DC when Reagan was shot outside the Hilton. The super smart Los Angelinos are on the phone asking what the consequences will be. The answer to that is simple : unexpected ones .

We pop into the town church. Plans have been drawn up to rearrange the interior.

The altar is to be relocated so that the kitchen and coffee areas - currently squeezed in behind it -  can be enlarged.

Some of the side chapels are to be converted into loos. All of this sounds crass but on reflection how else do you keep a structure rooted in the12th century open in a secular age ? The installation of loos may also say something about the age of the congregation.

On our way out we see that the flags on either side of the war memorial are encased in perspex surrounds. Does this stop them fading or is it a security measure to stop them from being stolen ?

The 1950's era Festival of Britain picture is put up. The frame is the right size and shape but the colour is wrong. What should be a cheerful, if muted, composition is overpowered by it. It looks flat if not funereal. The easiest thing would be to have it reframed but I'd prefer the environmentally better option of having the frame re-lacquered in a different colour. This will undoubtedly prove to be difficult.

Gull nesting time again. A particularly noisy fellow is celebrating the joys of fatherhood from the top of one of the old houses round the corner.

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You couldn't stage a photo like this if you tried :https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1812064429359419824