Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Burning flowers

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I always enjoy visiting church flower festivals especially in rural areas.  Villagers - not just church-goers - turn out to support the e...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Kahlo and the 'knot'

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It's #StaffordshireDay today (May 1st), the day in the year when one celebrates all things Staffordshire. So I thought I'd put up...
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Sunday, 28 April 2019

New life for pilgrimage route

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The Two Saints Way, a 'pilgrimage' footpath through Staffordshire and Cheshire, has a new website . Created only a few years ag...
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Sunday, 21 April 2019

Water for the monks

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Staffordshire has its own Buddhist monastery - the Wat Mahathat just outside King's Bromley - and monks come from Thailand to study h...
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Friday, 19 April 2019

Mine in the hill

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One of the entrances to the old Dale Mine - a 200 year old lead-& zinc-ore mine.  It lies in the wild Peak District; and faces the be...
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Friday, 12 April 2019

Book-knot in roof

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As readers of this blog will know, I 'collect' sightings of the Stafford Knot, the symbol of the county. This one is depicted ins...
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Friday, 5 April 2019

Remembrance for Christina

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One of the most brutal murders remembered in this county is the rape & killing of Christina Collins by two men in 1839. Her body was ...
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Thursday, 21 March 2019

Full moon for crows

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The full moon in March is known by some Native Americans as the Full Crow Moon, because the cawing of crows at this time signals the end ...
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Thursday, 7 March 2019

Balloons & cars

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Balloons always seem to make for interesting photos. That's it.
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Friday, 15 February 2019

Time painted into a circle

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Look very very carefully at this picture of the tower at Yoxall Church.  See anything odd? The oddness is that this is not a real clock...
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