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We went to visit our friends at their hotel because they were staying nearby and we all got to sit on the huge bed and Monkey was really kind and let us have his biscuits but he called them cookies and they were very yummy.
Moo and Timmy were watching sports somewhere but we don't know about that because we stayed with Mummy and Auntie Nita and went shopping and stuff.
day trip to Brno, Czech Republic to visit our childhood freind Filip, his wife Zdenka and his family with Erika & Miska
day trip to Brno, Czech Republic to visit our childhood freind Filip, his wife Zdenka and his family with Erika & Miska
Missouri Farm Bureau Chief Administrative Officer Dan Cassidy briefs delegates on issues affecting Missouri Agriculture. Farm Bureau's Marketing and Commodities Director, Kelley Smith, listens.
Officially known as Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford's diocesan church is unique in many ways and a bit of an anomaly amongst English cathedrals, being not only one of the very smallest of the older foundations but also the only cathedral anywhere to also serve as a college chapel (a strange and not entirely easy marriage of roles to the uninitiated visitor as this feels more a part of Christ Church College than the mother church of Oxfordshire Diocese).
Its history is even more varied, having originally been founded as the monastic church of St Frideswide, a community that ended its days prematurely ahead of the Dissolution when Cardinal Wolsey suppressed it in order to implement his plans to turn the site into his newly founded Christ's College. The western half of the nave was demolished as work began on the college quadrangle in its place and the truncated remainder would have followed had the founder's original vision of a new chapel been realised. In the end Henry VIII continued work on the college after Wolsey's demise and it was refounded as Christ Church, retaining St Frideswide's monastic church as the chapel. He also raised Oxford to the seat of a diocese in 1542, initially raising the newly dissolved Osney Abbey (to the west of the city) to the rank of cathedral but only two years later in 1544 that role was transferred to Christ Church and St Frideswide's / Christ Church College Chapel has served the role of Oxford's cathedral ever since. Osney was abandoned and one of the city's grandest buildings (and perhaps a more suitable cathedral in many ways) has sadly has all but vanished today.
Entering the cathedral for the first time can be a slightly bewildering experience, it is unlike any other cathedral in the country in that the exterior of the building is really quite elusive and inaccessible for the most part being surrounded by private areas of the college complex. There is no west facade, this was demolished to build the vast quadrangle through which it is now entered, thus one walks into the east side of the college quad with little sense that one is about to emerge inside a small cathedral. The other main route for visitors sends them via the former monastic cloister on the south side, and this is the only area where the public gets to see the external appearance of the cathedral in any detail, otherwise only the 13th century central tower (rising from a Norman base) with its short spire asserts itself above the masses of the college's various wings and courtyards.
Inside it is clear that this is still largely a cruciform late Norman church, the short nave and choir beyond the crossing both defined by round Romanesque arches of c1180, though here with a surprising twist, with a double row of inner and outer arches into the aisles, one superimposed over the other at different heights, a quite eccentric design. The outstanding architectural feature here however is the choir vault, a stunning early fan vault uniquely designed with lace-like ribs in stellar formation and hanging pendants, the visual climax of the interior. The east wall with its rose window was redesigned in the Victorian restoration by George Gilbert Scott to replace a large window (a later insertion) that had filled the entire space.
The most interesting area of the cathedral is the collection of chapels that fill the north east corner, the largest being known as the 'Latin Chapel' and containing medieval tombs including the reconstructed base of the former shrine of St Frideswide. There is much 14th century glass in this chapel too, although the very finest ancient glass here is in the chapel off the south transept where the traceries are filled with some of the most beautiful and richly coloured pieces of medieval glass that have survived.
The post medieval glass here however is equally significant and includes a delightful enamel-painted window by the Van Linge brothers, sadly the only complete window of a sequence installed in the early 17th century to have survived the turbulence of the Civil War. Better known is the sequence of Pre-Raphaelite windows designed by Sir Edward Burne Jones, most in his familiarly graceful style but the earliest (the St Frideswide Window) is quite different and full of rich glowing colour.
Exploring the cathedral doesn't take as long as most of its kind owing to the small scale of the building, but a visit isn't complete without taking in the small cloister and the impressive rectangular chapter house on the south side, a vaulted room of c1300 that has notable carvings and surviving medieval paintings in medallions on the vault.
Christ Church Cathedral is a rewarding place to visit, but it can be a little frustrating and less relaxing than most owing to the constant flow of visitors in a relatively small space. Entry to the college isn't cheap and is the only way for non-residents to visit as one cannot view the cathedral in isolation (visitors currently have to follow a pre-set route around the college dining hall before reaching the church). It does make me wonder how this building manages to function as a diocesan church, but whatever the complications it never fails to deliver with its beautiful architecture and stunning glass.
I visited Sandylands Community Primary School in Morecambe. (10th December, 2019)
Education is about learning for life. It’s about culture. It’s about imagination.
We will ensure children can learn musical instruments, drama, dance, and visit theatres, galleries and museums.
Because those things are part of what makes us human and what brings us joy.
I visited Milton Keynes to help our two fantastic candidates fight the next election.
Let's deliver the real change we need in Milton Keynes and accross our country, by voting for Hannah O'Neill and Charlynne Pullen, who will work for the many, not the few.
day trip to Brno, Czech Republic to visit our childhood freind Filip, his wife Zdenka and his family with Erika & Miska
day trip to Brno, Czech Republic to visit our childhood freind Filip, his wife Zdenka and his family with Erika & Miska
Leon Avelino and Barry Matthews of Secret Acres publishing, and literary agent Bernadette Baker-Baughman.
Visiting Koyna Dam (November, 2011)
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Visiting Emma & Mike, my friends and neighbors.
Emma sew and Mike paint and cut and glue papers.
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Mike is having a solo shot this week at Alice Gallery in Brussels.
Visiting Astonia Park (October, 2013)
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My ex-husband and I took our kids to visit his grandmother the other day. She may not look it, but it really made her day to have visitors. At 98, this is good for her.
Visiting Emma & Mike, my friends and neighbors.
Emma sew and Mike paint and cut and glue papers.
You can visit their websites:
Mike is having a solo shot this week at Alice Gallery in Brussels.
It was a pleasure to visit Bangor to spread Labour's message of real change. (8th December, 2019)
This manifesto offers the chance of real change for every generation and every community. When Labour wins the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins.
When Labour Wins, Wales Wins.
Alfreton is still a mainly TrentBarton town even if the depot there closed many years ago.
However. Stagecoach do run in from Chesterfield as shown by
Dart 34575 YN04YXZ, seen in the small bus station.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felsenburg_Neurathen
www.lohmen-sachsen.de/tourismus/felsenburg-neurathen.html
Neurathen Castle, the largest rock castle in Saxon Switzerland may be reached from the Bastei by crossing the Bastei Bridge. The ruins of the castle, some timber rebates, rooms carved out of the rock, a cistern and stone shot from a medieval catapult or slingshot may be viewed on a self-conducted circular walk. A replica slingshot was put on display in the castle in 1986. The finds from excavations in the area, especially pottery, can also be seen.