Ride to Bloxham and Adderbury
Since getting my bike I have hardly ridden it. I was going to ride last Sunday, but a friend fell off his bike on black ice (he limped into the tea rooms on Sunday morning), so I decided against it, and then I shut my finger in the back hatch which led to surgery and a glove-unfriendly-bandage. I had the bandage re-done on Friday and the nurse, on request, kindly did a glove shaped one, so finally on Saturday I was able to climb into my leathers and set off on the Oxfordshire roads.
I decided to go to Bloxham as it was included in a tour guide. Mark came along on his Panther to set the pace. I wasn’t too amazed by Bloxham,; perhaps because the internet pictures are so good but I thought the piano and Organ made a good sound; I am always delighted when the instruments aren’t locked up and are available for people to play (unlike St Helens… oh dear, am I STILL going on about St Helens!?). Mark suggested we ride on to Adderbury to look at the church there. The exterior carvings are super.
2 Comments:
Those are wonderfully vile! I think your favourite is playing an organistrum or something like that.
I thought it was one of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_gurdy but I think you are right! Either way, I don't think I have seen an instrument played so enthusiastically before, and especially not in a carving!
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