Cornish Fences

I don't often photograph a fence just because it's there but on a trip to Cornwall last month there were some I could not resist and others just happened to be there.

Headland fence

The building on the horizon to the right of the fence is the Headland Hotel at Newquay just up from the famous Fistral surfing beach. The fence is there to stop people falling over the cliffs into the sea (Atlantic).

There is more where the Headland ends.

Atlantic from the Headland

We went for Sunday lunch at a hotel further up the north coast of Cornwall.

Crantock beach

The rope fence to the car park was all there was to prevent a fall down onto the beach.

On a walk between St Mawgan and Mawgan Porth the shots I took had fences in then too, but these weren't really meant to all that important as - 

The white horse

and 

The turkey wanting to be fed

This is a post for Good Fences of course.

Run Down - Thematic Photography

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down." (Aneurin Bevan)

But you can get run down at the side of the road as well.

Fence run down by grass cutter in the Spring.

Sometimes however you wonder where the culprit rebounded to.

But perhaps it didn't rebound at all.

I'm not sure what role the JCB had in running down the conifer in our garden yesterday.

Now it's too late to change its mind.

Run down stump

I'm glad I don't have to clear up the mess. It would be enough to make anyone feel run down.

For other run down symptoms you need to check out what others have been inspired to post at Carmi's Thematic-Photographic-311.

Don't take offence - Sepia Saturday.

This week's prompt made me think of the house in which I was born.

It didn't look a bit like this but it did have a fence and some outhouses too, not that you would have known when looking at it from the front.

100 High Street, Ketton

When I lived there there was a wooden fence across the front, not that stone wall. It had no running water just a cold tap on an outside wall and when you wanted to 'go' you had to leave by the back door and visit what I euphemistically called "The Black Hole of Calcutta" -- a building with a wooden seat and an open bucket underneath.

So I hope you will forgive me for speculating on the use of:

in our prompt. Why else would you have a hole in the wall?

I doubt that the inhabitants of Bradford still have to pay a visit to the outhouses in this back alley.

Pickles Hill, Bradford
Back alley between Boldon Lane and Poplar Avenue
(By Paul Glazzard, Feb 2007 - Geograph Project Collection; CC BY-SA 2.0)

But the view from Tyson's veranda in Queensland in 1924 made me wonder about the uses of the sheds between the fences.

Residential view from Tyson's veranda
(John Oxley Library; State Library of Queensland)

I doubt that my Calcutta euphemism will enter the Oxford English Dictionary but another term certainly has - it's even been used to describe a scene on Mount Kenya.

Top Hut on Mount Kenya -
 with long drop khazi in the foreground
(By John Spooner, 1 Jan 1999 - CC By 2.0)

Looks a bit draughty to me.

However I have saved the best (of)fences till last.

Fences at Mount Farm Museum
(By Bill Hathorn, 20 July 2012 - PD, US Government)

Excuse me while I just check to see whether that wooden hut is a 'khazi.'

Now flush' with success, I suggest that you find whether anyone caught the plague at Sepia-Saturday-218,