OUTSIDE - INSIDE

The frost in the garden was so heavy last week that everywhere one looked there were broken Spider's webs.

Here are just a few amongst some other delights

The Corkscrew Hazel delights in all seasons

the frozen lawn not to be walked on

A little extra interest with the double mirrored reflections

The Tamarisk on the other side of the fence

so beautiful

but back into the warmth

and last but not least

the card I have just finished making for Alan for our

53rd Wedding Anniversary tomorrow

12.12.12 Global Day of Worship today

12.12.12 Live streaming from our church at 6.55 pm until 9.30 pm

Greenwich Mean Time on the Global Day of Worship Site

The Global Day of Worship (GDW) is a call for a unified, global worship movement so see the name of Jesus Christ lifted up throughout the earth. It will be a day that will unify many denominations within the body of Christ while embracing and celebrating the differences in our expressions of love for Jesus Christ.

Through a unified, celebration and adoration of the name of Jesus, the world will see that we are His disciples.

12.12.12 (7.0 pm - 8.0 pm) in each time zone a wave of worship and adoration will span the globe and unite all believers as one body.

Utilizing 24 time zones, we will agree with and join the 24 elders, spoken of in Revelation 4, who are already worshipping Jesus around the throne.

It is when the worship of heaven meets the worship of earth that spiritual climates of nations will shift as we serve faithfully here and now in preparation for His return.

I don't like a post without an illustration and

it just struck me that the innocence of a child

was apt

Little Rebekah in the park with Grandma

A Sunday Afternoon Drive in July

It is a Sunday afternoon and we are still at our holiday cottage in Lavenham so we decide to drive to a couple of local villages

We stop and park opposite The Peacock Inn in Chelsworth

we walk across this bridge over a river

most of which is owned by the houses that back on to it

We continue walking

taking some photos of the very different and interesting houses on the way

we eventually turn around to drive back the way we came

towards Lavenham

but we will stop off at Monks Eleigh on the way

I ended up walking some way while Alan parked at intervals (not this car) as I love taking photographs of English cottages

I have to walk past this house on the left in order to look at the village church 

On my way back I take a closer look at this interesting porch

which is dated 1682

the decoration in the triangle above the door is dated 1337 

We come to Monks Eleigh with the village green on the right

and guess what? Alan sits in the car while I go wandering

I think the cricket was on the radio! 

The village pump

inscription says this well was made and pump erected 1854

I have never before seen a church bell on the outside of the tower

and looking at the time on  the clock I think we need to be getting back for supper

Don't think anyone is likely to steal this car

On the road again and

next time we will be visiting the Cathedral and Abbey ruins and Gardens in Bury St. Edmonds 

Clare Priory & Ancient House , Suffolk

A couple of places we looked at while visiting the town of Clare in the Summer

First this ancient House which is now part Museum

Standing at the south-west corner of St Peter and St Paul’s churchyard, the Ancient House is a picturesque medieval timber-framed building in this remarkably unspoilt market town. Its elaborate pargeting (raised plaster decoration), so distinctive a form of vernacular decoration in East Anglia, bears the date ‘1473’, and is one of the most celebrated examples of this art in the country. 

A local farmer, Charles W. Byford, acquired the Ancient House in the early 1930s to prevent its removal to the United States and it was subsequently given to Clare Parish Council.  

We walk through the town down to the river

and visit Clare Priory

Clare Priory is one of the oldest religious houses in England; situated in the shadows of Clare Castle on the banks of the River Stour, Suffolk.

Established in 1248 at the invitation of Richard de Clare it was the first house of the Augustinian (or Austin) Friars in England. Following its suppression in 1538, the house passed through many hands and uses until the Augustinian Friars purchased the house in 1953 and returned to their origins in England. Clare Priory today acts as a Parish and as a Retreat Centre.
It is the home of a mixed community of Augustinian friars and lay people, open to both men and women, seeking to live the Christian life according to the Rule of St. Augustine.

We walk around the gardens and the Priory ruins

and finish at the Friar's house

where we chat to the Head Friar who was painting the outside of the house