The Crown & Tuns, Deddington

Recognised it straight away from the thumbnail.

Yes, and I nearly missed it. Having walked all round Deddington (a pretty and interesting place but cluttered solid with parked vehicles and almost impossible to photograph, and not helped either by its being wheelie bin day, which it seems to be everywhere I go on the day I go), I only made a detour down that main road when in the distance the red blossom caught my eye. I would have taken it from that same POV if the face of the pub sign hadn't been in shade.

I chose the right day (yesterday) for a "Lockdown jaunt" - it was bright and sunny with a blue sky until, on the way home, it suddenly miserabled over and poured with rain. Before that, it being such a beautiful evening, I made a detour via Brill and discovered it and its Windmill, which was quite fortunate.

You have to aim high to miss the parked cars in Deddington.



What do you mean by 'Lockdown jaunt'? I thought that nonsense was over for the time being.
And since when has 'miserable' been a verb, Mr Pedant?

1. Yes, you do:



2. It is, but that sort of solo excursion is what I did a lot of during the Lockdown, and the name has stuck.

3. Since I made it one.

We can play this game till our stock is exhausted.

Please don't call me a pedant on line. My house might be attacked like that female pediatrician's house by a mob of News of the Word readers.

I'll call you a pedagogue then, but no-one will know your house,
apart from the absent TVs.

That's even worse, and I'm not kidding.

Would you prefer nitpicker or pettifogger?

Comment/observation on this, please:

You caught it at a good time, with the sun on both faces, but it doesn't work well with the square format and superfluous windows on the edges. Roy has kindly suggested a crop.

I'm unconvinced about whether or not Roy's version works better than mine, but the point here (compare this with your shot) IS the windows. The right-hand side of the foreground building is obviously a modern addition and the (real, actual) tacky 1960's windows and shop front on it are quite out of keeping.

They're nice windows, but the eye is confused about whether to focus on them or the church.
It might have worked better if you'd allowed more west and south.

My own picture is more of a documentary one, but I pointed upwards to include
the heavenly clouds that seem to be emanating from the church.

They do seem to, and that's really taken the wind out of my sails:

Excellent pair! Stay well!

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Thanks for posting your wonderful picture to

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I agree that even with in-period windows it doesn't make a great picture, but it does make up the number of shots I got on Thursday to 8, a nice even number.



I sent this before-and-after composite to the lady who pulled up in her open-topped Porche to ask me why I was taking a picture of her house (I told her I was a burglar and casing the joint). She appreciated my removing the hideous TV aerial defacing the Tudor chimney (why this is allowed on listed buildings baffles me) but didn't notice that her window and lantern had been repositioned.

Eric might reassert his opinion that you must be "potty" to spend so much time editing photos.

But I'm surprised you didn't remove the velux window.