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Well - it's one post - but two contrasting themes. There are some fascinating (well I think so) church pictures from York - and some of the garden.
Both two weeks ago, when I was still in York, and today at home, the temperature is pleasantly warm and sunny. Probably about 20C, which I know sounds cold to friends in California - but it's a pleasant summer temperature for me. I mention this because D-d is in Buenos Aires where the temperature had dipped down to zero at night... She's having a lovely time though - a mix of museums, maté, and nights out.
I must share her description of maté - it is a bit like a herbal tea but looks, smells and probably tastes a lot like cat-nip.
Any way - the pictures. I have passed St Martin's church in York so many times - it is on one of the main shopping streets. This time I stopped to look properly. The church was called St Martin the Grand - now knowing that there are beautiful medieval churches on almost every corner in the old city of York, you might expect this to be a very impressive church indeed. It is - but not in the way it used to be. The oldest parts of the building date back to the eleventh century although much of it was a little more recent - being fifteenth century. But almost all of it was destroyed in one of the Baedecker air-raids in 1942 leaving only the fifteenth century Tower and the South aisle.
Some churches so badly damaged have been rebuilt, others were demolished. St Martin's was restored so that that tower and aisle became the entirety of the church.
( photos of this, and a few of the garden, are under here )
Both two weeks ago, when I was still in York, and today at home, the temperature is pleasantly warm and sunny. Probably about 20C, which I know sounds cold to friends in California - but it's a pleasant summer temperature for me. I mention this because D-d is in Buenos Aires where the temperature had dipped down to zero at night... She's having a lovely time though - a mix of museums, maté, and nights out.
I must share her description of maté - it is a bit like a herbal tea but looks, smells and probably tastes a lot like cat-nip.
Any way - the pictures. I have passed St Martin's church in York so many times - it is on one of the main shopping streets. This time I stopped to look properly. The church was called St Martin the Grand - now knowing that there are beautiful medieval churches on almost every corner in the old city of York, you might expect this to be a very impressive church indeed. It is - but not in the way it used to be. The oldest parts of the building date back to the eleventh century although much of it was a little more recent - being fifteenth century. But almost all of it was destroyed in one of the Baedecker air-raids in 1942 leaving only the fifteenth century Tower and the South aisle.
Some churches so badly damaged have been rebuilt, others were demolished. St Martin's was restored so that that tower and aisle became the entirety of the church.
( photos of this, and a few of the garden, are under here )
