April Scavenger Hunt

It's time for the monthly Scavenger Hunt round-up post. I found it much easier to find subjects this month; I think probably because I was on holiday for the first week and had plenty of interesting locations to take photos in. Sadly I can't promise the quality of the photos is as interesting as the subjects are but I shall try harder in May. The categories were:

A sculpture:

In the world famous White Garden at Sissinghurst

Breakfast:

Birthday breakfast! Yum.

A church:

The church is St Mary-in-Castro, in the grounds of Dover Castle. It doesn't look like much but it dates from the year 1000 and the ruined tower thing next to it is actually a Roman lighthouse built in the 1st century AD.

A set of keys:

Not a set exactly...it's the biggest and smallest keys I could find in the key cabinets at work. I had hundreds to choose from!

Something to do with Shakespeare:

From Bill Bryson's fascinating book Mother Tongue.

An interesting shop name:

Sadly it's closed now, but candidate for best shop name ever? I think so.

Something yellow:

Newly painted yellow nails in new yellow shoes under a yellowy-green leaf.

April Showers:

Everyone seems to have found this difficult - it's been such a dry month! I felt some spit-spots of rain coming down on my specs one day and promptly snapped this.

Eggs:

Bit boring I'm afraid. No Easter eggs in this house, so normal eggs it had to be.

Something to mark St. George's Day:

St George's Day happens to be my chum Lee's birthday. So here he is, being eaten by a dragon.

Your camera:

It's such a poser. On a ruined heap of masonry at Bodiam Castle.

A cross:

A simple cross in memory of a very brave young man. It's in the New Chapel at Ightham Mote and marked the grave of Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson. He won the Victoria Cross on the first day of the battle of Passchendaele after leading a force of only 6 soldiers to capture a German trench and two machine-guns. He was killed by a sniper shortly afterwards, aged only 21.