Way back in 2015 – yes that really is ten years ago – I decided to post photos of the numerous benches sitting in my folders. It seemed that I was not alone and suddenly it turned into the Bench Challenge where I set a particular criterion each month and people joined in posting their bench photos. It was a lot of fun and I met a lot of wonderful bloggers through it.
This year I am returning to mark the occasion by posting a bench photo every Sunday. There will not be any particular theme set this year so it’s not really much of a challenge, but if there is anyone out there who still has a bucketful of bench photos and would like to join me, then please do so by adding a link in the comments or a link to my post in yours (a pingback) and I will happily pop along to admire.
It’s good to have the balustrade harmonizing with the bench.
It’s a very elegant Edwardian restored garden.
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Following suit, it made you in 2015 an elegant Elizabethan photographer.
Another of my kind of benches, and this one is extra large!
Best wishes, Pete. x
I reckon it would seat five of us.
Truly a gorgeous setting!
That’s got everything, the bench, the mellow stonework – and is that Cupid? Perhaps a bench for a romantic liaison!
Only me! I squeezed you in xx
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That’s a fancy bench!
https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/a-bit-hard-to-sit/