Arty outing

Miggy came yesterday and after lunch we went to Firle near Charleston Farmhouse where the Bloomsbury set hung out. It is a beautiful village with a perfect shop and post office and many cottages had vegetables, home made bread, jam,, flowers, outside and a pot to put your money in. We went to the church as we thought it was the one that Duncan and Vanessa Bell and co had decorated with their paintings but it was the wrong one. But there was a lovely John Piper window with some happy sleeping sheep and also the vicar there is the one that is always on the telly  Peter Owen Jones of `Around the World in 8o Faiths etc and you could feel his energy.       So we went on to Berwick Church a few miles away and there were the paintings in all their glory, and a path full of the best hollyhocks I have ever seen. Also sculpture by Sarah Walton, so we went on to her studio up Bo Peep Lane, and had good chats with her and looked at her work.  Amongst other things she makes salt- glazed pottery ash containers for people, dogs and cats. You would have to be either very rich or inordinately fond of your cat to buy one of those.