Homes of Retirement

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Visit to the Weald & Downland open air museum today - one of those collections of old buildings saved from various sites around the area.  From somewhere E coined the phrase of a "retirement home for old buildings" - it's now stuck as a phrase; soon to be repeated...

Walked a short section of the South Downs way this morning.  discovered quite how slippery chalk paths can be*.  As a result the camera, it's case and I are covered in a certain quantity of South Down - thankful that the camera seems to have survived the fall. 

At the museum I was intrigued to learn that the original colour of the timbers of 'black & white' buildings was often a 'Stop Rust' red, which looks rather different.

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As we passed by the village of Goodwood - E thought horse racing, I thought motor; each of us having mentally excised the other circuit.

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* I'd have thought that a material renowned for it's ability to absorb water would have absorbed the fairly small amount of rain over the last few days - apparently not.