
The Ancient High House in Stafford is an imposing Elizabethan (1595) dwelling on Stafford’s high street. It is free to enter and various periods of history are exhibited, with the Staffordshire Yeomanry’s artefacts occupying the uppermost floor.

The Ancient High House in Stafford is an imposing Elizabethan (1595) dwelling on Stafford’s high street. It is free to enter and various periods of history are exhibited, with the Staffordshire Yeomanry’s artefacts occupying the uppermost floor.

I rather like the distinctive shape of the allium which grows in our chapel grounds, its spherical flower head bobbing about in the wind. Two uses of the word 'shape' struck me from the Authorised Version of the Bible:
David laments: ‘Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me’. (Psalm 51:5)

Outside Number 33, Stonegate in the city of York sits the devil. Something of a tourist attraction, he is well photographed and admired. He is also well looked after judging by the brightness of the paint.
The Authorised Version renders Ephesians 4:27 as Neither give place to the devil and the NIV as Do not give the devil a foothold.