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Just come back from my biking expedition. I picked some blackberries at a meadow by the river. It well may be the last 'crop'. A few days of rain made them less nice.
Then I rode through Pitshanger Village and Park towards Scott's Meadow and sat on a bench for a few minutes looking at another piece of uncut grass left for city dwellers what it can be like.
My next point of call was an old graveyard at St Mary's, Perivale. A few years ago it was badly vandalised, but fortunately has been restored.
Intrigued by the plaque that reads:
Reconstructed by Adrian Cave, Architect
'Champion of the Disabled'
1999"
I looked up his name and found out that he was in charge of many important projects.
'In the churchyard the graves are unusually close together, showing the difficulties in coping with a parish that had grown too large. One in particular is worth a look, its delicate carving having survived almost 300 years. There is also a strange legend attached to 'The Maiden's Tomb'. Apparently trees began to grow out of it as she had predicted would happen 'if there was a just God'. '
However, another source gives a different version of the maiden's tomb legend:
"The 'Maiden's Tomb' of Elizabeth Colleton (d.1721) has a tree growing out of it, and legend has it that her father, Sir Peter Colleton, cried out that if there was a God trees would grow out of her tomb, which they duly did."
A few cats were photographed later today:
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