putting a gloss on it

This is the lane leading to the Church of All Saints in Charlbury set on another of those glorious hills you may discover all over Dorset.











And this is the small 13th century church, immaculately kept inside and out by people who care.













The old fashioned organ, in a gallery reached by a terrifyingly steep set of wooden steps, overlooks the church interior that may not be what you might expect in a small village. In fact, in the visitors' book there were a few comments by misguided folk who derided the gloss paint, immaculately applied to more easily enable the small community to keep their church as a bright and cared for place of worship, evidenced by the carefully arranged bouquet of wild flowers below the pulpit.

This is the view over Dorset from a point in the churchyard near to which a seat has been placed by her family to the memory of mother and grandmother 'Annie', all of whom may well have faith in their belief that heaven is a place kept in good order with a touch of white gloss.










I suppose I ought to take care with my preaching as we ended up where you would expect; at this delightful pub, Drusilla's Inn at nearby Wigbeth.