Forgotten picture.

I was looking for something amongst my recent pictures and found one I had taken particularly to share - then forgot to post it.




That is the Mason's Lodge at York Minster. Probably not the image that comes to your mind when you think of a Masonic Lodge - but, of course, what the first ones actually were.

It is the working area for the stonemasons who are repairing and restoring some of the stonework of the Minster. (Remember the figures in this post from a couple of years ago?)

The next day, when I walked past again, a couple of masons were hard at work - but my camera was a bit buried. And I can reassure you that they were ordinary looking young men in their twenties wearing jeans and T-shirts - this is the real thing, not a 'historical re-enactment' of any sort.

Well that's 15 minutes I'll never get back...

I've just spent 15 minutes getting more and more desperate as I tried to work out where I must have put my mouse whilst I got paper out of the cupboard and put it into the printer. I looked all around where I'd put the laptop on the floor, then around the cupboard, all around the printer... Then I looked under the settee, on the table, through the rest of the room, before going out to the kitchen in case I'd taken it there when I went to pour myself some coffee.

If only I'd looked under the cat in the first place...