Obviously by now you may have the slightest inkling that I am just mildly interested in the man-of-the woods figure [or some may cruelly say completed obsessed] and nothing gives me greater pleasure than when I stumble across new ones. Honest guv I had no plans to seek out any more this weekend but fabulously the powers that be had other plans for me. Now normally I am used to seeing these figures either carved from wood or stone and other than possibly one at Exeter cathedral I have only ever seen painted ones for sale not in situ. Weirdly I encountered ones of these ilk two days running. The first lot were in Rochester Cathedral and I hadn't appreciated they were there until my Mythago chums informed me [we were there dancing on Saturday] errantly believing that I had already covered all bases with the stone ones seen and snapped last year. These ones are verging on the manic...almost like something out of a Grimm's fairy tale or Punch as one friend remarked.
Due to unforseen circumstances the dancing for yesterday had to be cancelled but we had already decided to visit a couple of places whilst we were over in East Sussex. These rather more naive but charming chaps adorn the exterior of the Ship Inn in Alfriston.
I am still tickled pink today by these latest discoveries!
Arilx
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I couldn't ever be fed up of green man photos .... keep them coming, please.
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