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5 creative works found

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  Gozitan cat 1
  by M G Pettett

  Gozo is cat-lovers’ paradise. You couldn’t get a more Gozitan (Maltese) cat than this one – rubble wall, prickly pear, limestone building blocks and cat….. Pentax K 10D.

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  Gozitan cat 2
  by M G Pettett

  Another cat half asleep in a nook in the bastion wall just outside the entrance to the Citadel, Gozo (Maltese archipelago).

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  Countryside near St. Neot
  by M G Pettett

  The beautiful village in the title is on the edge of Bodmin Moor in central Cornwall, UK. Picture taken in early March. Pentax K10D. Photomatix/Serif PhotoPlus used to create this HDR picture.

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  St. Juliot church in early spring
  by M G Pettett

  This church in North Cornwall is famous for its association with Thomas Hardy. Before he became a famous poet and author he was an architect, and in 1870 was assigned to survey this church prior to its restoration. While there he met his future wife, Emma Gifford, who was the sister-in-law of the vicar. This church owes much to his efforts, as it was in a terrible state before he arrived. There are many similarities (and some differences) between his real-life circumstances and those in his book “A Pair of Blue Eyes”.

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  St. Gennys church in early spring
  by M G Pettett

  This church is situated in a very isolated spot near the cliffs of North Cornwall. It dates from the 12th century, but there was almost certainly a church on this site in the 10th century dedicated to St. Gennys or St. Genesius. There were many such holy men who came over to Cornwall from Wales and Ireland in the first millennium – they would set up in such a spot near a source of water (for baptism as well as nourishment) and hold services in the open air. They would often live as hermits, and in time the water source would become a “holy well” of which there are many in Cornwall, one being located very close to this church.