8th November, 2015...."Hobgoblin nor foul fiend, can daunt his spirit..."

Wow...an incredibly stormy Remembrance Sunday....but still the good people of Barrow turned out to support their armed forces......

 

 

 

 

 

 

...it is dark enough to be evening isn't it......

 

 

 

...it wasn't quite eleven o'clock in the morning! We were fairly warm and dry thanks to good old Jack Wolfskin!!

 

 

I was looking at that Victorian house opposite and musing about Central Ward, or Rollo, as we affectionately know it...so much of Barrow's history and tradition is contained here....

 

 

 

 

 

...and, of course, good old Rollo School at the heart of it all. We've served this community for nearly 150 years...there's real strength in that!

 

 

So...arriving home cold and wet, it was rather poignant to switch on the TV and watch Remembrance Day services from around the UK and listen to the words of John Bunyan's hymn 'To be a pilgrim'...

 

Who so beset him round, with dismal stories,

Do but themselves confound, his strength the more is....

There is definite unbreakable strength in community, these commemorations show that! After we'd warmed up, we did head down to a rather deserted Furness Abbey......

 

 

 

 

 

...a few days of rain have made it soaking wet down here; the beck is quite high, and it's soggy underfoot!

 

 

 

 

...atmospheric in the extreme....I love the outdoors!!