Hellooooooo! I'm back to annoy you all having spent the last week or so nosing around in the beautiful Wye Valley. To ease myself back in gently I'm sharing a couple of quotes that caught my eye whilst I was away. The photo is of a piece of graffiti that charmed me on the local church door. I can only imagine that the individual behind this carving was not terribly popular when their handiwork was first discovered in 1532!
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
W.B.Yeats
"A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Homes Sr
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