Last of the York picspam - including bubonic plague and threatening breakfast cereal...

[curiouswombat]

I really do think this is the last of the York picspam! I am hoping it all makes sense - you can blame typos etc on the fact that D-d and I just shared a bottle of wine over dinner! Hic!

There are a couple of pictures from the North Yorks Moors Railway, one is simply of a couple of gentlemen, taken from the station bridge in Pickering, who look like characters from Thomas the Tank Engine






And one of the historical metal advertising sign that caught our eyes - especially S2C and D-d, who both burst out laughing before I even noticed it -






Also - as you may know - York Minster is one of the greatest gothic cathedrals in the world. (With one of the world's best archbishops, IMHO!) This year some of the worn or broken carvings at the roof level are to be replaced by new carvings, as part of a conservation project, which includes training new craftsmen.

The new figures are currently on display before they are put into place - after which it is unlikely that many people will ever see them again.

In keeping with the original figures, these new ones represent illnesses and tribulations of medieval life -

Here are Toothache and Madness -



Backache -



Bubonic plague - see the buboes in the armpit and groin -



And finally the dreaded Plague Doctor -





The plague doctor seems a fitting place to finish - I will spend most of tomorrow gowned up and out in the community taking swabs from people suspected of having the Swine Flu...

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Pity they didn't actually have bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. It really annoys me that that misconception will now be immortalised in stone on the cathedral for several hundred years.

Fortunately the Weetabix sign cheers me back up again.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I was more amused by the bubonic plague one - it is the only one which is a semi-naked female... I couldn't see any reason for this - and the matching boobs and buboes caught my eye!

The Weetabix sign is just priceless though - I am so glad that S2C, and D-d, were sitting in the right place on the train to spot it so that it could be photographed when we got back.