Wolves Wild

Tractor weathervane, on a farm (where else) in Bishops Castle in the Marches.

Turtle doorknocker: perhaps the house of a Discworld fan? Southwold – a short row-boat ferry trip across the River Blyth from Walberswick, where the pictures in yesterday’s post were taken.

Some thatched houses have little sculptures in straw along the ridge of the roof line, as “signatures” of the craft of the roofers. These particularly fine examples were from Walberswick on the Suffolk coast.

Fishy weathervane: I’m sure someone more knowledgeable than me could identify the species, on the lifeboat station at St Ives.

A reminder that killing things has until recently been part of a traditional Christmas, even if the victims weren’t destined to end up in the kitchen. Fox, looking like it’s fleeing from hunters, weathervane, Totnes.

Santa Claus is (very loosely) based on a real historical figure. St Nicholas was bishop of a see in part of what is nowadays Turkey. He’s the patron saint, among many other churches, of Beaudesert church, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. The church has this splendid product of blacksmithing as its weathervane.