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.
TRAVEL WORDS 
It’s good to have the balustrade harmonizing with the bench.
It’s a very elegant Edwardian restored garden.
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!