Broadway...

 Licenced today: old stone cottages in the Cotswold village of Broadway…

Lyveden New Bield...

Licenced last week: Lyveden New Bield, near Oundle, Northamptonshire. Not a house in ruins, but an Elizabethan summer house built for Sir Thomas Tresham, a fervent Roman Catholic, and left unfinished when he died in 1605. The house, in plan, is strictly symmetrical, based on a Greek cross, featuring many religious symbols…

Oulton Broad...

Licenced today: springtime blossom at Oulton Broad, Norfolk…

Sibsey Trader Mill...

I’m at that age when it’s OK to do some discreet shoplifting: a fifth of Jack Daniels in an inside pocket, or a side of smoked salmon slipped down a trouser leg. If I’m apprehended by a store detective, I’m ready with my response: “I’m a pensioner. I’m on new medication. I don’t know what I’m doing”.

Licenced today: Sibsey Trader Mill in Lincolnshire…

Prestbury...

“Religions the world over have insisted on the torture of self-denial, abstemiousness, control, suppression, and every form of psychological amputation. Surely to find whatever there is to be found, something not the result of your tortured, despairing life, you must have a mind that is untortured, unmutilated, very simple, very clear, without having any particular direction; a quality of mind that is really innocent, though it may have lived a thousand experiences. You must have a certain quality of open, fresh innocence” (Krishnamurti).

Licenced today: the village of Prestbury, in Cheshire… 

Escomb church...

Licenced today: the 7th century Saxon church at Escomb, near Bishop Aukland, County Durham…

World Cup...

According to the Guardian, at least 6,500 migrant workers have died in the ten years since Qatar was awarded the World Cup. A more recent investigation has found that workers employed on World Cup-related projects have had to work 12-hour shifts across 30 days a month to earn the equivalent of about £1 an hour. These are the facts that need to be stated, and re-stated, as the players warm up for a competition in a repressive regime which knows as little about human rights as it does about football.

Licenced today: buses in the town centre, Taunton, Somerset…