What is the point of filming Tales of the City in San Francisco if you use the WRONG SAFEWAY? Sorry but it has to be said. It should have been Marina Safeway, not the one on Market Street. Nobody ever tried to get a date in the Market Street Safeway. The Marina Dateway on the other hand, well, people have got married there because that was where they met. It must have been a bit strange for the people trying to do their shopping while dodging bridesmaids, but it was handy for the guests if they forgot to bring rice to throw.

The reason I am ranting about TV series rather than our travels is that we are not moving at the moment. We need a new alternator due to some mechanical issues with the way the old one was mounted, and we are at the boatyard until it is installed. It’s raining at the moment so we probably wouldn’t be moving anyhow.

Yesterday I went back to the local church with the good camera so that I could photograph some of the interior details. Look what is lurking up in the roof.

There’s a Green Man, a bit of pagan symbolism that has sneaks into Christian Churches because you don’t want to offend the old gods even if the new gods have a bigger construction budget.

You would not spot the carving unless you look carefully. It’s up there somewhere.

There are a couple of tombs of members of the Astley family in the church, probably dating from the 13th century.

Edith’s de Astley has a sign propped against is saying “I AM ALIVE” but she isn’t fooling anybody.

The achievement of arms of Queen Anne is prominently displayed.

After the reign of Queen Anne, Church of England churches were no longer required to display the royal arms, but this church never got around to taking them down. They probably can’t afford a ladder.

The stone font is 12th century.

It was thrown away in 1777, and recovered from the midden in 1849. I’m not sure, but I’m guessing the wooden cover dates from 1849 as well. The pile of cardboard in the background is contemporary.

There’s a fragment of prayer on the wall.

It’s probably 16th century, post Reformation. It was plastered over at some point, and uncovered in 1921.

As well as being a hodgepodge of construction materials, the church is also a hodgepodge of changing fashions of worship over the centuries, and the strangely English relationship between church and state by which the next head of the Church of England could well be an agnostic.