A bleak and cold Sunday, with temperatures at noon of zero degrees celsius again! The skies are lumpy and leaden today, so we might get snow yet.
This was taken from the top of the amphitheatre,looking across to Kirkby Moor.
We walked across the railway lines today, and towards Bow Bridge. The pools of water that have been lying there for weeks are now frozen over, but not enough to support our weight. Frankie took great delight in snapping the ice- until I mentioned that he might do a 'Dawn French' and step into a puddle up to head height! That's in that funny Vicar of Dibley scene where she is pursuing Richard Armitage (swoon)!
Plenty of daffs making an appearance down here though, despite the weather!
I was thinking about this building, which is the infirmary of the actual Abbey- it would probably have been full of monks with pneumonia at this time of year! It was one of the few buildings of the Abbey that was allowed a fire.
We were also looking at the minute detailing on the bell tower building. These plinths would have held statues, maybe of marble, to decorate the outside walls. You would have seen them if you approached the Abbey church from Manor Farm.
And there are plenty of these gargoyles to ward off evil spirits. Frankie calls them "those little guys that cling to the walls of the Abbey!"
