Monday 22 December 2008

Monday.


Snapshot of very pretty cottages in Brent Eleigh.
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3 comments:

Nea said...

Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.

Ha-ha, my code word to comment this is

ailing

Nea said...

Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.

Ha-ha, my code word to comment this is

ailing

and then it didn't work!

Now it's "patolow", fingers crossed

Unknown said...

The fashions in beam painting change regularly here about every twenty years. For a long time black,tarry beams were 'in', then for a while it was a sort of silvery limewash (like the house here), then about five years back our double jettied guildhall had the beams - and infills- painted the sort of reddy colour that old barns and houses in Sweden are painted.Looking back, I see I've illustrated the guildhall on Tuesday, 17th June,08, so you can see what I mean. Regards, Pa.