Graveyard Pictures

I just mopped the floor and now I'm marooned at my computer until it dries and I can walk on it, so I thought I'd share a few of the photos I took in Brockley Cemetery yesterday, as mentioned in the post below.  I only got 20 minutes in there because they shut the gates really early, but the sun was at a beautiful angle so the light was nice... I wanted longer - it's bigger than I thought, and has lots of interesting statues rather than just endless eroded headstones (which are very nice too, but I like the angels missing limbs and urns covered with ivy and all that proper good old spooky graveyard stuff).  I've also recently finished reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, of whom I am a great fan, so I was decently imbued with lots of fantastical notions about who I might meet in the cemetery.  As it turned out I had only squirrels and crows for company, but I guess you can't expect the souls of the dead to come out at 4.15 in the afternoon now, can you?

(As an aside, I recommend the book - I was a bit unsure at first, as my expectations were high and the writing didn't seem up to Gaiman's usual par... but I was soon corrected, for it improves apace after the first few chapters, and is a satisfying and amusing tale.  Not my absolute favourite of his, but nonetheless deserving of the crazy amount of prizes and awards it's won in the year since it was published.  I was intrigued to read the acknowledgements and discover that Gaiman originally started writing at what is chapter three of the book, which could explain why the beginning seems a little sub-standard.)