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...which, this being southern England, means it's raining. Nonetheless, my tree is up and my Christmas shopping mostly done. Mum and I got the bus down to Winchester yesterday and went to the Christmas market. We did this last year, and I'm quite a fan. I like supporting small businesses, and they have a nice range of quirky stuff to suit my very quirky family. I've even got the first tickle of a Christmas story idea about a couple of lads whose paths only cross at Christmas time (cathedrals, Christmas markets and ex-choirboys - why, yes, I am from the Home Counties).
We also took the chance to go on a tour of the Cathedral, which neither of us have done before, despite many visits to the town. You really learn so much more if someone is there to point out the little things (I would never even have noticed the frescos or the crazy carved animals in the screens). One place the guide took us was the crypt, which I'd always assumed just got sealed whenever it flooded, which is often). Actually they have a little viewing platform about a foot above the floor so you can see it as long as the water doesn't rise that high.
That's Antony Gormley's Sound II, which I'd seen pictures of but is incredibly compelling in real life. You can't stop staring at it.
We also took the chance to go on a tour of the Cathedral, which neither of us have done before, despite many visits to the town. You really learn so much more if someone is there to point out the little things (I would never even have noticed the frescos or the crazy carved animals in the screens). One place the guide took us was the crypt, which I'd always assumed just got sealed whenever it flooded, which is often). Actually they have a little viewing platform about a foot above the floor so you can see it as long as the water doesn't rise that high.
That's Antony Gormley's Sound II, which I'd seen pictures of but is incredibly compelling in real life. You can't stop staring at it.