Jonathan Foyle

This week’s crop.

Ironically funny

That thing when you leave lime mortar to mix for too long and it goes a bit dry- and your pointing turns into a display of cosmic physics

Not only are the individual pages of Sections 9 (dealing with habeas corpus) and 10 (dealing with powers of Congress) of Article 1 missing from the Constitution on the .gov site, but they’re missing from the full version too, along with the end of Sect 8. Last complete version was July 17.

Painting of a house in Glinton, Cambs I did many moons ago. Land of Barnack stone; Stamford's Georgian quality a strong influence in that area. Porch would be about 1850.

Must be the 1460s then

IMO, Suez was an overreach in foreign affairs; Starmer is best at that and is managing US relations surprisingly well. Domestic policy is affected by diminished trade income from a public vote for isolationism. He never asked for Brexit, which is seldom named, but carries the can for its solution.

A mid fifteenth-century street corner.

Marvellous coherence

Great photo. The sockets from the timber-reinforced footings are fascinating.

Great!

St Etheldreda, Ely Place, London.

Quick sketch of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield London, featuring my sidekick for this afternoon @petec1780.bsky.social

The thing about working in building conservation is that you no longer look at a scene like this and believe that’s what your ancestors saw.

Late Summer’s up.

Consider it as a rebuke to AI: think for yourself without asking Grok; draw on old-fashioned real paper and learn and create things with actual humans! All without relying on an energy- guzzlin’ data centre.

Last call: Sunday afternoon- London churches, walking-talking-sketching www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/architectu...

Jewson’s: 75mm masonry bolts £4.79 each. Need 6- wow, that’s £28.74. Check Screwfix: pack of 6 of the same brand is £6.99! Ask at the counter and he runs the code through the system: “they’re 99p”. “But the label on the stand says £4.79 each!”. “Yeah, that’s what they’d LIKE to get.” Excuse me?

Can now confirm.

Admiring Basil the cat’s innovative sleeping style. Must try it.

Bewilder

Sunday 3 August: London churches sketchcrawl: pads, pencils, sharpeners and rubbers provided in a neat bag. Commentary and chat, outwith said bag. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/architectu...

Question from Reddit for all you buildings archaeologists: How often do listed buildings burn down, and how often do they 'burn down'? #AskAnArchaeologist

Thanks!

Plus Odda’s chapel ( just pre-Conquest) nearby.

Deerhurst, Gloucestershire- superb Anglo-Saxon church (and a reconstruction)

A century earlier c.1486 in The Master’s House- proper Tudor earth pigments.

Details from the Elizabethan Painted Room, Ledbury

Ledbury, Herefordshire