Thursday.

Both these photoes are of the same Suffolk church, a few miles up the road from us. The wooden porch is on the North side of the church, and is of 14th century date; The stone porch is on the south side and is of 16th century date. Aren't they a lovely couple. This morning a friend of ours and his daughter (who I first met when she was a premature baby - she is now a very lovely young woman and is about to take her A levels, or the modern equivalent thereof) came to see us, bringing with them the pendulum from a lantern clock with a broken suspension spring. The spring had been made from a section of watch mainspring when the clock was made about three hundred years ago, so has always been very fragile for its job. It says something for the clockmaker's ingenuity and workmanship that the spring has only just given up the unequal struggle. Being called for supper. Will complete later.