Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst is in the New Forest.  Ponies also live in the New Forest, so here it is my (second) last photo of a pony.  I had to include it because of the foal's stunning blue eye!  Very unusual and very rare and it would be remiss of me not to share it :)

And how could I not include this cute little fella.


And last but not least, to add a bit of balance a collage of Lyndhurst with a generous sprinkling of cars - ferraris to be precise. Daniel bagsed the red one straight away and insisted I take his picture with it.


Incidentally, the anglican church at Lyndhurst is the burial site for Alice Liddell - the little girl for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 (see top left photo).

And did you know that Lewis Carroll 's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and as well as an author he was an accomplished mathematician, logician, Anglican Deacon and photographer.

He attended Christ Church College in Oxford and apparently his early academic career veered between high promise and irresistible distraction. He did not always work hard, but was described as exceptionally gifted and achievement appeared to come easily to him. In 1854 he graduated with first-class honours in the School of Mathematics.

According to one popular story, Queen Victoria enjoyed Alice In Wonderland so much that she suggested to Lewis that he dedicate his next book to her.  She was subsequently presented with his next body of work, a dry scholarly mathematical volume entitled An Elementary Treatise on Determinants.  This story was vehemently denied by Lewis.