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Posted 5 hours 31 min ago
Before Kirkland Hill on the drovers' road from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire sits the church of St Connel. Google Maps associates it with the Covenanters though I saw little to explain this when I called. There were plenty of gravestones and even a collection of medieval fragments, for these are thirteenth-century remains on an even older site (some of those broken stones date to the ninth century).
Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
"Teachers work so hard."
Or:
"Teachers have it so easy with all those holidays."
Posted 2 days 5 hours ago
St Michael overcoming Satan was sculpted by John Wood between 1872 and 1875 from a block of Carrera marble. It was initially displayed at London’s Royal Academy until coming ‘home’ to Warrington from where Wood hailed and whose townsfolk had contributed the one thousand pounds for its commissioning.
Posted 3 days 5 hours ago
I cycled to Hetton Chapel this month in order to support the coffee morning. Few attended but I had an enjoyable couple of hours with other believers without fretting about the clock and being back at Salem Chapel for the evening service. The air was cool but not cold, and it was dry. How many more cycle rides to Hetton the weather shall allow I do not know; I push my pedals while I can.
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