London – The city is four days into this particular spot of unusual weather and I’m yet to bore of it. The morning opened mildly with a fair portion of the last few days of snow almost completely melted. Nevertheless, the wind was still perishing and it wasn’t long before the electroplating fired back up. The…
Tag: Church
Music plays somewhere in the distance
More than three quarters of the Greek population list their religion as Orthodox, and if you find yourself there during one of their religious celebration, it is an almost certainty that you will find yourself involved in the pageantry of the occasion in some way, shape or form. I spent this year’s Easter holidays in the Northern…
No one is busy in this world
I didn’t post anything last week as I was in Greece for their Orthodox Church’s Easter celebrations – of which I will write about soon. I took around 1,000 photographs and am currently weeding my way through the best of them. Until then, here are the travel notices from Camden Road station this week. You…
Words to live your life by
We saw this tile mural beside a church while on a walk near the river this afternoon. A schmaltzy message it may be, but one fitting for the season. I hope you all had a peaceful holiday time and look forward to the new year.
A Rural Idyll in Steady Decline
The people of that plainly built farming town led simple lives and were proud of the hardship and forfeiture rural existence assumed of them. They knew their place in that world and – as is customary in such isolated surroundings – they conducted themselves with the same sheltered constancy as so many of their forebears had done for generations before.