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The Window View in February
February’s Window View – we have taken the grill down from the outside of the window therefore vastly improving the view and letting in more light. We are craving sunlight! As the ash tree is bare the view has much more sky and light than when it is in leaf. The winter light in the churchyard is beautiful, illuminating…
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Showing it as it is… 2015
For the past two years at around this time of year, we have shared photographs showing the not quite so tidy bits of Christ Church Living in an attempt to highlight (as much to ourselves as to anyone else) any tiny steps of progress that we may have made over the year. We have noticed that the ebb and flow…
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Trelystan Church
An area on our doorstep which, ashamedly, we have hardly explored is Long Mountain and the parish of Trelystan. Needing to stretch our legs and our eyes, we set about putting this right. Walking over farmland the winter landscape was beautiful in the ever changing light. We found the delightful Trelystan Church, literally in the middle of nowhere. No surrounding…
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January in pictures
A monthly picture diary… :: Karl’s experiments with the alchemy of wood finishes : the drawer handles go on in the kitchen : deciding on a paint colour for the inside of the kitchen cupboards : lime plaster repairs in the entrance porch : it’s cold : homemade sticky orange delight for our breakfast : repairing the entrance porch :…
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We’re now on Instagram where we’ll be posting more behind the scenes pictures of our work and life here at Christ Church. You can find us at @chchwelshpool
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Red sky in the morning… and true to the saying it has been a week of cold weather. The church temperature has dropped to its winter low of 2 degrees. Multiple layers of woolens are the norm right now. Image of the Week #122
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kitchen build – part 1
Mid December and in mid manic festive preparation time, we clear the ‘kitchen’ area to make way for carpenter Paul and Karl to commence the kitchen build. During recent weeks the ceiling has been painted and the walls lime washed; the antique Holophane lights hung and the air extraction ducting installed. The Christmas tree was a little in the way,…
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We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas from us all at Christ Church.
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Christmas door. Image of the Week #117
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… Clearing the House and creating our temporary Christmas living room begins. Easier said than done when work on the kitchen also begins – the surrounding chaos has been cropped out of this shot! Image of the Week #116
