With one thing and another I have been rather busy recently. Christmas preparations are a little behind…
Stage two of our house decoration project was delayed (due to unexpected circumstances) from the expected October schedule until last week. This meant last minute furniture relocation from three rooms in readiness for the decorator to perform his magic. The room where my computer is located needed decorating throughout rather than a refresh that was needed in the other two rooms. The wall colour is much warmer and richer in colour than my photos show.
My computer was temporarily located in the living room which was not ideal for creative thinking (for blogging). Now my computer is back where it belongs, but as you can see the room is a work in progress. New carpet is on order and when Mr C and I have time we will take a trip to our local curtain shop.
But for now we have Christmas cards to make and post, trees to put up, one or two more presents to buy and finish planning our boxing day meal, working around numerous food allergies…
Tags: Cherie's Place, Decorations, Work, Work in progress
The Processional Way replaces a medieval passageway that pilgrims used to pass from the shrine of St Etheldreda to the Lady Chapel. It was dedicated in the year 2000, and is the first substantial addition to the Cathedral since the fifteenth century. The dedication is recorded in a stone slab set in the floor.
This processional way stands on the foundations of the Lady Chapel Passage used by the pilgrims to Ely. Beneath this floor lied the mortal remains of 27 persons from the wider monastic community reinterred during building work.
AD 2000
The three, four-light windows and flanking door-panel lights are based on geometric principles, glazed in tints and colours of the 14th century. The symbols are encompassed by decorative borders, foliated motifs and cross-hatching. The painting is traditional in subject matter and format, though contemporary in technique.
Tags: Cambridgeshire, Ely, Ely Cathedral, Pilgrims Way, Weekend away
On one of the walls just inside the entrance to Ely Cathedral there is a large modern sculpture of a cross.
On the North West Transept wall there is a magnificent sculpture called ‘The Way of Life‘ by Jonathan Clarke. One of three sculptures specially commissioned for the millennium, Jonathan Clarke’s The Way of Life is made of cast aluminium and has nine sections, each differently jointed. Like the journey of faith, its path is irregular and unpredictable; and just as the journey is sometimes hard, sometimes joyful, the surface texture and colour also vary. On the top arm you might be able to make out a minute human figure, someone who is perhaps on the journey.
Tags: Cambridgshire, Cross, Ely, Ely Cathedral, Faith, Jonathan Clarke, Life, Weekend away
There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
From ” A course in Miracles” as quoted in “… And Wisdom Comes Quietly”
Tags: Anglesey Abbey, Cherie's Place Thought, National Trust, Weekend away
An inscription at the bottom says : In honour and memory of the members of 2,3,8 and 100 Groups who served in the Ely district during the second world war, 1939 to 1945. The outer panels show aircrew and airman figures, between them are Archangel Michael and St. George. Below these are the badges of the four groups. At the bottom of the window there are scenes of aircraft in flight, including one of a bomber going over Ely Cathedral. The window is in the North Choir Aisle. It was designed by E.Liddall Armitage and unveiled on Remembrance Sunday, 1955 Link
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Tags: Bomber Command, Cambridgeshire, Cathedral, Ely, Ely Cathedral, Memorial, Memorial Window, Stained Glass, Weekend away, WW2, WWII
This sculpture by David Wynne shows the moment when Mary recognises Jesus on the morning of his resurrection.
A sign next to the sculpture states that the figures are so thin it is as though everything has been stripped from them except the core of their being.
Jesus said: ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ Supposing him to be the gardener she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him, tell me where you have laid him and I will go and get him.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’ She turned and cried out, ‘Teacher!’ Jesus said to her, ‘Do not try to hold on to me because I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brother and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord!’
John 20:15-18
Tags: Cambridgeshire, Ely, Ely Cathedral, Statue
