Tideswell Church, Derbyshire

Continuing from my visit to Tideswell on Festival Day........

We went into the church to have a look at the exhibition organised by local groups. English parish churches are regarded as a place of welcome for everyone in the local community where people can get together to organise the annual festival within the building and grounds. This often occurs in the Summer or the Autumn or to coincide with a patron saint's day to which the church is dedicated. 

Many people were visiting the exhibition located in the side aisles of the church and in some of the other side areas leading off from the nave. There were displays by the joiners and woodworkers, the knitters of clothing for charity, the local beekeepers, the needleworkers and craft workers, the tourism industry groups who bring well-being through leisurely pursuits such as navigation skills, cycling, guided walks into the Peak District, the transportation businesses who take folk on coach trips, get others to work and school and transport goods for traders and the quarrying industry and also those who represented the building, plumbing and general construction industry in the area. The young school children had done a project called 'My House' and their drawings were also on display.  I picked up a prayer leaflet to do a prayer walk around the church as I looked at the exhibits on show.  The church has many examples of its age that can be seen and admired in the beautifully crafted architectural features.

The table was used by the Headmasters of Tideswell School

The Lady Chapel is set aside for quiet contemplation and prayer. 

Five on Friday

Hello everyone.  Thank you for coming by and thank you for leaving some lovely messages on my last blog post.  After our Sunday and Monday celebrating Father's Day and our wedding anniversary the rest of the week has been relatively quiet working around the house and garden. The hot and humid weather has meant doing this more slowly than usual.  Using the home computer has been really frustrating not only because I'm having trouble with it, but because our internet provider was working on a local connection issue and the service was off most of the day on Wednesday. Once again my blog post is going to be brief and for Five on Friday Meetup I'm sharing five images of the chickens in the fields opposite our house in Italy where they have plenty of space to run around. Wisely they retreated back to the shelter of the olive trees by our neighbour's vegetable plot and vineyard as I walked by across the fields.  I can get to a sister-in-law's home if I walk down to the woods and follow a stream running by them rather than walk up the lane to the cluster of houses where she and her family and other relatives live.

  

Our thoughts are beginning to turn to our next trip to Italy and yet I've hardly shared anything about our last one earlier in the year!  Hopefully I'll write more about that as well as life in England if the problems with my computer improve! 

Meanwhile I wish you a good day and a very peaceful weekend,

Floral Bliss #26

It's been an enjoyable weekend and I hope you had a good one also. Our weekend celebrations extended into Monday as we celebrated our wedding anniversary the day after Father's Day. This year it was our 52nd wedding anniversary.

I'm joining Riitta's Floral Bliss again this week, but I shall keep my writing brief as I'm experiencing technical problems with my laptop and also the Internet service has been down this morning and has just returned.

The rose called 'Anniversary Rose', which our Berkshire daughter gave us, has been blooming in time for our special day. My husband transferred it from a pot into the ground this Spring and it's doing well.

There's plenty of shade from the fig tree during these exceptionally sunny days where we can sit out.

 I shall do a garden  roundup of them at the end of the month.

On Monday we went for a drive out into the Derbyshire countryside. We had decided to revisit Tideswell which I've written about before.  However, as we got to the town we realised that it was Festival Day and probably there had been well dressing ceremonies at the weekend.  Actually the town wasn't very busy and it was easy to park,  take a look at the well dressing pictures made from flower petals and other natural materials and also go into the church.  It's called the Cathedral of the Peaks because as well as being a large, beautiful building it has always been an important place of worship that has served the local community over the centuries.

By the side of the drive up to the church was the school children's design and a display of some of their preparatory drawings.

Inside the church there was an exhibition showing the work done by the many and varied organisations and groups in the local community.  The above display is just one of them and I'll share more when I write a blog about the church festival.

Further down the high street there was another well dressing display in Fountain Square.  It depicts various aspects of Hull, which is this year's City of Culture, including the Minster, Amy Johnson's famous bi-plane Gipsy Moth and the Humber Bridge.

Tideswell was looking very colourful and we could have stopped there for longer, but it was lunch time and we decided to drive back to the Hope Valley and have something to eat in Edale Village. The walk after lunch needs another blog post so I'll leave you with a few photos of the hills of Edale, which is a popular area for hill walkers as it's the start of the Pennine Way National Trail. 

The above photo was taken during another visit before the leaves were on the trees. This time the hedges were green and there were wild honeysuckle and dog rose bushes in flower. The tall grasses along the verges of the narrow lane, the only road through Edale Valley, were full of wild flowers.

a rose bush in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Edale