Here lies....

10/3/2015

Honest Joe

You could have a worse epitaph, couldn't you!

It reminds me of Dorothy Parker's suggestion for her own - 'Excuse My Dust'

Honest Joe lies in the graveyard of Stewkley Church just 20 minutes and 865 years away from here. It's a largely unaltered gem of a Norman Church, beautiful in the spring sunshine.

The porch is 19C

Cream tea in The Cotswolds today - well you just have to get out when the sun is shining, don't you? And we've not been to Hidcote for so long. Smell of Daphne odora was divine.

8 Comments

elaine link

10/3/2015 05:30:28 pm

You couldn't get a simpler epitaph than that - that's for sure. Such a beautiful church too. My friend bought me a Daphne Odora for my birthday - as you say it smells divine, but such a responsibility, they die at the drop of a hat.

Freda

10/3/2015 08:09:55 pm

I've never before seen such splendid ones as at Hidcote and Anglesey Abbey - five or six feet high, covered in blossom and scenting the air all around. Good luck with yours!

Rosemary link

10/3/2015 08:10:50 pm

I love the Norman arcading with its crisp piecrust surrounds. What a special architectural legacy we have been left.

Freda

10/3/2015 09:33:32 pm

It is wonderfully rich, especially in this (your) part of the world Rosemary..

julia

11/3/2015 01:03:59 am

hahaha! i enjoyed that epitaph...my friend, bill, has one he hopes to use: he went to find out.

Freda

11/3/2015 03:25:56 am

I'd like mine to be the last line of a favourite poem - 'What could I do but laugh and go.' But not for a while....

Sarah link

11/3/2015 05:23:19 am

A great epitaph! It must have been wonderful to visit Hidcote and also enjoy a cream tea in the sunshine. We missed our daphne odara so much we have had to buy a new one! Sarah x

Freda

11/3/2015 09:42:11 am

Hidcote was lovely (and quiet!). I do miss being within easy reach of the English gardens. Enjoy your new daphne!

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