Today I headed for Compton Lock on the Itchen Navigation.
We parked near Twyford Parish Church in the lane by the footpath to the river and lock; it was crowded with large SUVs and cars. The parking by some drivers was not good, and at times it was rather inept. We had wisely parked away from the madding crowd in Church Lane, a few hundred yards down the lane by a farm.
Nobody seem to take any notice of the sign, to avoid using the private footbridge but to use the public footpath, which we did.
Along the footpaths we passed several folk, some of whom were friendly and smiled, but most looked grumpy and a few looked positively snooty and distant. Some reminded me of the high and haughty of Hampstead and Highgate, particularly on the Twyford side of the Itchen.
One or two had that smug arrogance which comes and goes with an inflated sense of their self importance, wealth and status. ( I have come across this snobby attitude before, not only in London NW3 and N6, but at Chilworth in the 1960s. I understand that it is still evident there today, but I cannot say for sure.)
God opposes the proud and arrogant, but gives grace to the humble. He hates the haughty, arrogant look. James 4:6. Proverbs 21:4.
When we saw the crowded banks of the Itchen by Compton Lock, we turned a sharp right to Hockley Meadows, a lovely nature reserve area and magnificent mesopotamia, as beautiful as the one at Oxford.
And these three photographs were taken early one morning when very few people were out and about at Compton.
We parked near Twyford Parish Church in the lane by the footpath to the river and lock; it was crowded with large SUVs and cars. The parking by some drivers was not good, and at times it was rather inept. We had wisely parked away from the madding crowd in Church Lane, a few hundred yards down the lane by a farm.
Nobody seem to take any notice of the sign, to avoid using the private footbridge but to use the public footpath, which we did.
Along the footpaths we passed several folk, some of whom were friendly and smiled, but most looked grumpy and a few looked positively snooty and distant. Some reminded me of the high and haughty of Hampstead and Highgate, particularly on the Twyford side of the Itchen.
One or two had that smug arrogance which comes and goes with an inflated sense of their self importance, wealth and status. ( I have come across this snobby attitude before, not only in London NW3 and N6, but at Chilworth in the 1960s. I understand that it is still evident there today, but I cannot say for sure.)
God opposes the proud and arrogant, but gives grace to the humble. He hates the haughty, arrogant look. James 4:6. Proverbs 21:4.
When we saw the crowded banks of the Itchen by Compton Lock, we turned a sharp right to Hockley Meadows, a lovely nature reserve area and magnificent mesopotamia, as beautiful as the one at Oxford.
And these three photographs were taken early one morning when very few people were out and about at Compton.
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