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SOB award According to Lizz Strauss
03.02.07

In and around the School House Garden

The School House - the lovely Victorian building from 1873 we call home Since February 2002 we have the fortune to live in the old Headmaster's house in the middle of the Charing CoE Primary School grounds. Plans are afoot to redevelop the Old Victorian School-buildings in the near future (2008/2009, but plans have been launched since 1994, so we might live here a while longer still) and could be turned into expensive apartments or executive homes. Before we have to depart from this old (1873), drafty, creaking, moaning and lovely building and its huge garden we call home these pictures from In and Around the School House Garden will - hopefully - prevent it from being lost in History forever.

This page will be added to with more pictures of various 'visitors' to our garden, be it birds - from blackbirds, song thrushes, woodpeckers to small birds of prey  - insects, hedge-hogs, foxes, squirrels or of the human kind. 

Bird of prey landed (Owl) - got 'Flip' out of the bag just in time to video him/her.


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(The descriptions are 'behind' the pictures, just 'mouse-over'. Click on any of the picture for an enlargement)

he front of the School House on the left - hidden -, part of the old school right Past the Victorian school building towards The School House he School House's wild front garden, paradise for thrushes The little alley between The School House and the School to come to the tarmacked School play-area The back-yard of the School House, with old coal storages is turning into a wild garden too, paradise for bumble bees Welcome to our garden, the whole 400 sq meters of pure nature, right in the middle of a busy school and lively village The very old Apple tree, still bearing fruit every year, paradise for tits, sparrows, finches and the odd woodpecker and squirrel Close-up of two little, according to Ton tasteful, apples Our teak Garden set, sits 8 if needed View through branches of the Japanese Cherry tree towards the neighbours Lavender bush, paradise for bumble bees and butterflies Little froggy from our own pond or the school pond, still very tiny and not a match for the large ones hopping around somewhere too Flying ants, a yearly event The Butterfly Bush in the shadiest corner of the garden Sunset over The School House Garden, always way too early! The back of The School House hidden through the trees and bushes surrounding the garden The wall around part of the School and our garden is in some places showing a view beyond A forgotten fishing net in front of the School Green Gang's pond, behind our garden The School Green Gang's pond View on the back of The School House taken from the tarmacked play-area, many balls fly over during sport-events A forgotten chair on the school-lawn awaiting the return of all the School children Decades ago these were the 'temporary extra classes, now used as 'instruction blackboard' Our next-door neighbours, Charing's cemetery with many Celtic crosses Our 'neighbours' with the old and huge evergreen tree in their midst A closer view on the evergreen, last year it lost a huge branch due to the long lasting draught. Made a hell of a noise went it came down View between the trees toward the North Downs View over the South-East side of the village taken from the School Green, variations of trees aplenty

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Mike

Hi Karin,

Got here from the blue shark's home town extravaganza. I must say that from the pictures this location defines the word idyllic!

Cheers,

Mike

Posted by: Mike | September 06, 2007 at 04:07 AM

Karin H.

Hi Mike

I would say: you've got that right in one word!
(It's as my good friend Richard says: a villagy village and we think we have the best part of it!)

Karin H.

Posted by: Karin H. | September 06, 2007 at 09:49 AM

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