tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post1328922463690992120..comments2024-03-29T11:46:45.772+00:00Comments on North Stoke: 8th May 2021thelmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-8934543271630950302021-05-09T18:26:19.239+01:002021-05-09T18:26:19.239+01:00Not eating them, but dismembering them - stopping ...Not eating them, but dismembering them - stopping them coming back as complete bodies I think.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-84119522568854622582021-05-09T09:21:00.617+01:002021-05-09T09:21:00.617+01:00Yes the font is amazing, the amount of work in it....Yes the font is amazing, the amount of work in it. 'Up North' there is a lot of good stuff, and when you look round whether it be the abbeys, churches or Viking burial coffins. And then Rudston, the tallest megalithic stone in the country followed by the Devil's Arrows near Harrogate. Also Andy Burnham who is speaking the right language. ;)thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-68107143892572534772021-05-08T23:48:59.390+01:002021-05-08T23:48:59.390+01:00The font at Cowlam looks amazing. Thank heavens we...The font at Cowlam looks amazing. Thank heavens we have artefacts like that from so long ago. As for reflections on "Super Thursday", I am heartily sick of hearing about the Conservative victories and the headway made by the SNP. Maybe I should move to Wales.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-63407111378878424672021-05-08T14:48:11.998+01:002021-05-08T14:48:11.998+01:00;) It is where madness begins Pat!;) It is where madness begins Pat!thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-55556730877938789662021-05-08T14:47:40.237+01:002021-05-08T14:47:40.237+01:00Also on the subject of 'swearing' (for wan...Also on the subject of 'swearing' (for want of a better word) I do agree - we would forgive Tom anything!!The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-40905907841833539432021-05-08T14:46:36.042+01:002021-05-08T14:46:36.042+01:00Thelma it was indeed Rudston. As I came over to ...Thelma it was indeed Rudston. As I came over to see if you had replied the word popped into my head - then reading you confirmed it. What a strange thing the brain is.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-75652786653336572482021-05-08T14:45:42.172+01:002021-05-08T14:45:42.172+01:00'Zombie apocalypse', that's a new one ...'Zombie apocalypse', that's a new one Jennie. I can understand cannibalism happening from starvation but eating the dead to stop them coming back is a bit scary.<br />Yes as far as Sheela-na-gigs are concerned they could have carried on through the Celtic period, there are more in Ireland for a start. Their presence on churches does stand out as a warning of course to the congregation, and whether you can say they are reused stone in churches as well from the much earlier Saxon churches. You would need a lifetime to study the significance of the Dubh hag/ witch amongst all the folklore and myth, and yet their the Sheelas seem to exist.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-29744686959519795802021-05-08T14:32:06.377+01:002021-05-08T14:32:06.377+01:00Only you could say that Tom ;) but have you ever s...Only you could say that Tom ;) but have you ever seen the Neolithic 'Venus' figures? Plump matrons, a sign that food and fertility was important. thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-79864968364155928002021-05-08T13:52:11.870+01:002021-05-08T13:52:11.870+01:00Gosh Tom, a bit nippy in the winter months!!
Whar...Gosh Tom, a bit nippy in the winter months!!<br /><br />Wharram Percy is well worth the visit, though it's years since we went. There was an interesting archaeology prog on it recently where they investigated possible cannibalism back in the Medieval period. I think they concluded it was done to stop the dead rising and coming back to assault the living! A sort of zombie apocalypse :)<br /><br />The Sheela-na-gigs have long fascinated me - I'm inclined to think they may be older than the Anglo-Saxon period but were certainly a well-known Christian lecture-in-stone if Kilpeck is anything to go by. Beware the lusts of the flesh . . . Mind you, men riding (lavicious) goats was probably a more subtle way of saying the same thing. Apparently they could well be apotropaic magic (new one to me until I looked it up this morning).<br /><br />There is a possible connection to the Irish goddess who granted kingship - she being an old hag who - if she persuaded someone to sleep with her, then changed into a beautiful young woman. There's a folk song along similar lines by Steeleye Span (the ballad of Alison Gross I think it is.) The ugliest witch in the North country . . . Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-90089610011911145462021-05-08T13:06:57.006+01:002021-05-08T13:06:57.006+01:00The other thing about the girls of today is that t...The other thing about the girls of today is that they not only have to be slimmer and not have child-bearing hips, but peer-pressure dictates that they divest themselves of pubic hair too - or so I am told.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-1194008329169870052021-05-08T12:55:39.584+01:002021-05-08T12:55:39.584+01:00Looked it up for you, just 17 miles and definitely...Looked it up for you, just 17 miles and definitely a worthwhile visit to Wharram Percy. And, just a note of interest. Is that Pocklington had a burial ground of Iron Age 'square' burial barrows from the Arras culture (incomers). Person, ponies and chariot burial all together. It is all under a new estate of houses now but was only a recent discovery.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-21893390591761788742021-05-08T12:50:13.014+01:002021-05-08T12:50:13.014+01:00It was probably the Rudston Monolith Pat, one of t...It was probably the Rudston Monolith Pat, one of the enormous standing stones of Yorkshire. It stands above the Gypsy Race river, another colourful name. East Yorkshire holds quite a lot of interesting archaeological sites and close to each other.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-87052704302775610332021-05-08T12:07:49.236+01:002021-05-08T12:07:49.236+01:00I had not heard of Wharram Percy - I must go when ...I had not heard of Wharram Percy - I must go when next up that way; my friends live in Pocklington, so not too far?<br />The bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-26935830677406209732021-05-08T11:24:26.586+01:002021-05-08T11:24:26.586+01:00Thank you Thelma - it reminded me that once - mayb...Thank you Thelma - it reminded me that once - maybe fifteen years ago - the farmer and I went on an outing with the Study Group we belonged- we went to Wharram Percy and to several fascinating churches in the area - one which had frescoes and one which had a 'standing stone?' mear to the door. The ladies of one village provided us with a beautiful picnic tea.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com