Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
The eighteenth-century lead urns and shepherds on the Aviary Terrace are from the workshop of the Flemish sculptor John van Nost. The statues have been restored and painted with a finish resembling weathered lead although they were probably originally painted in more life-like colours.
11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 10th 2012
I am back to work tomorrow and I wonder where the weekend has gone, it didn’t feel much like Easter…
A friend was celebrating a special birthday over the Easter weekend and (he and his partner) invited friends round for a celebratory buffet at around 6pm on Easter Sunday (the traditional time my family share Easter celebrations together). The birthday isn’t their only celebration, they are getting married next weekend and I am sooo excited for them 
Now getting back to my point – Easter didn’t feel much like Easter… Easter Sunday was celebrated on Saturday and the Sunday birthday celebrations felt like a Saturday!! Now Easter Monday is nearly over and it FEELS like Easter Sunday…
I will be in shock when I have to go into work tomorrow!!
Now getting back to my weekend…
One of the things I did was visit St Andrew’s Church near Wroxeter after my failed attempt last year:
Afterwards I decided to make the short walk to St Andrew’s church in the nearby village. It has an interesting history and it is a long time since I visited. At one stage I was in danger of getting knocked over by an oncoming vehicle whose driver only slowed the vehicle down and came to a halt when the driver of another vehicle coming in the other direction slammed his brakes on and pulled to one side. The first driver clearly hadn’t noticed me until then! I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and retreated back to the ruins. I will visit the church another day by car.
This time I was accompanied by Mr C, we made it to the church (by car) without any problems… But on entering the Church, we found that two birds (Rooks) had got themselves trapped inside the Church…
This caused us both distress, and doors were opened to let the birds fly free. One did quite quickly… The birds were calling to each other from different places and the second one didn’t know how to fly free from the church… Until the last moment, that moment was quite beautiful
I still don’t have any decent photographs of the Church because whilst I was visiting Powis Castle last week I had inadvertently pressed a button on my camera that made all my subsequent photos (over exposed) less than ideal…
I need to make the journey to St Andrew’s again ;-/
11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 9th 2012
It is not how much we give but how much love we put into the giving.
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997)
19 Comments CherryPie on Apr 8th 2012
This lead statue of Hercules fighting a stone headed hydra with a wooden club stands at the east end of the top terrace of Powis Castle garden.
The fine statues at Powis were made in the workshop of Flemish John van Nost at the time the terraces were being created. The Hercules is signed by Andries Carpentiere, one of van Nost’s leading craftsmen. With the Fame and Pegasus, now in the courtyard, it probably once stood in the former water garden.*
*From the Powis Castle garden guidebook.
19 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2012
Dat panis coelicus figuris terminum
O res mirabilis! Manducat Dominum
Pauper, pauper, servus et humilis
Pauper, pauper, servus et humilis
The image is a snapshot from the video with a little CP magic added…
Sadly the original link seems to be blocked now. The music can be enjoyed from this link.
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