I thought that Friday’s unexpected flurry of snow would have thawed out overnight. Although it didn’t snow during saturday the snow lingered making the roads in places quite treacherous.
In the early hours of sunday morning snow started to fall again and didn’t stop for nearly 24 hours. We haven’t seen this much snow for many a year and even when it has snowed it has thawed by mid morning. Not so on this occasion.
I waited a while to see if the sun would melt the snow from my car. I eventually decided to take action and try to remove the snow. I started off with a soft brush, several of my neighbours had used this technique, but I found it rather laborious and not very effective. I resorted to putting a plastic food bag over my glove and scraping the snow off by hand and when I was able to unearth the boot of my car I opened it to retrieve my ice scraper!
There was six inches of snow on the top of my car and several inches on the bonnet so it took me quite some time to remove it. I couldn’t remove it all, the lower layer was ice and the temperature dropped causing the windows to gain a frosty layer.
I had intended to have a go at Mr C’s car too, but I ran out of light and the temperature dropped causing the cars to freeze over again.
I can’t resist sharing a few more snowy garden photographs with you 
Tags: Car, Cherie's Place, Garden, Pidgeon, Snow
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
Tags: Blackbird, Cherie's Place, Cherie's Place Thought, Shropshire, Snow, Winter
The timber portion of this building was erected in 1614 by Robert Smyth. It was set upon posts “to keepe the market people drye in tyme of foule wether”. The brick portion was added in 1868 and the building was restored by public subscription in 1978.*
*from a signboard next to the building
Tags: Market Harborough, The Old Grammar School, Weekend away
The moon of the first photograph returns much later in the day
Tags: Cherie's Place, Moon, Snow, Winter
The central panel shows the legend of St. George killing a dragon outside the city of Antioch.
Below is his wife Sabra who has just borne three boys, one of whom is being carried off by a lion. This romantic addition to the legend was current in the sixteenth century.
St. George is the patron saint of England and of the Royal Order of the Garter. He was also venerated by warrior kings like Henry VIII.
Above St. George are reclining male nudes: a popular motif of renaissance art. God appears in blessing above them.
At the top and the bottom are the initials of Henry and Anne Boleyn: ‘H’ and ‘A’.
Down either side is a frieze of military trophies, appropriate to the general martial theme.
Several different carvers have worked on the stall. The central round panel and the figure of God above it are much finer than the rest of the work. *
*From a signboard next to the artwork
Tags: Cambridge, God, King's College, King's College Chapel, St George, Weekend away
The floor at the east end of King’s College Chapel has been lowered to enable Rubens painting, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ to be displayed beneath the great East Window.
This powerful masterpiece was painted by Sir Peter Paul Rubens in 1634 for the convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium, and was subsequently acquired by the Marquess of Lansdown when the Convent was suppressed in 1783. It came into the possession of the Grosvenor family and, in 1959, was sold at auction (for a the world record price). It was presented to the College in 1961 by the purchaser, Major A E Allnatt, who wished that it should again be an altar-piece in a great church.*
*From a guide to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
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