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A little holiday

I’ve been so excruciatingly busy during these past few weeks that I haven’t had time to blog, tweet or do anything that wasn’t work. That state of affairs is ongoing, but we did manage to grab a couple of days in Brighton for our wedding anniversary.

I’m hoping that things will calm down enough for me to find the time to show you what I’ve been up to. It involves a glorious silk steampunk outfit, several bridesmaids’ dresses, hallowe’en costumes for my tiny niece, and a whole pile of theatre costumes.

You can have a sneaky peek at some of it over on Flickr, but I haven’t even managed to upload all my photos yet!

It’s nice to be busy, especially as it’s all interesting and creative work, but I do think I might have overdone it a bit, this time.

Portwrinkle

Portwrinkle

While we were in Devon, we thought it would be rude to go home without paying a little visit to a beach. We were told that Portwrinkle was the closest beach that didn’t require climbing down a million steps, so that’s where we went.

As you can see, Portwrinkle beach is made from stones and shells, not sand.

I came home with quite a lot of it in my shoes.

Portwrinkle

I was using my walking stick that weekend, so I couldn’t follow Paul as he clambered about to look in the rock pools. Instead, I took a picture of him doing a pretty good impression of a rock. Only his luminous white knees and elbows give him away!

Portwrinkle

This is the last picture I was able to take before the battery in my camera gave up. You can’t really tell the enormous scale of these rocks, but I was fascinated by the layers and all the beautiful colours in the slate.

We were only at the beach for about an hour, but as soon as I’m mobile enough to scramble about, I definitely want to go somewhere with lots of rock pools.

Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral

It’s a month now since we went to Devon, and we stopped at Exeter on the way down. We arrived at Exeter Cathedral at about four o’clock on a gloriously sunny afternoon, and it turned out to be the perfect time to take photographs of the stonework and stained glass.

Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral

The higher up the outside of the cathedral you look, the sillier the faces become.

Exeter Cathedral

Some of the work in the cathedral is relatively modern. This window depicts the bombing of the Cathedral on May 4th 1942.

(Would it be wrong to confess that I almost expected to see a TARDIS somewhere in the stained glass?)

Exeter Cathedral

There was also some absolutely modern artwork on display in the Cathedral. This piece is by textile artist Jacqui Frost. It’s described as “a love letter from the Father”, and is made up of many hand-stitched panels relating the names of Jesus to contemporary vocations.

Exeter Cathedral

I made a donation to the Guild of Needlewomen who’d produced hundreds of these beautiful kneelers. All of them depicting the natural world, there were illustrations of birds, trees and flowers, all with the names worked around the sides.

I took plenty more photos, and was only disappointed that we couldn’t stay longer.