The Green Man

What a beautiful late autumn day, I hope you’ve all enjoyed the same. One of my friends is a guide at Ely cathedral and today, on a whim, I joined her group for a brilliantly geeky and colourful hour’s talk on the history of the site and the city; female saints; pilgrims; disasters; battles and builders. My Green Man blip was taken in the stark Lady Chapel, he sits in elaborate alabaster carving above an arch and is hard to see among the foliage until he’s  pointed out. You can even go on a Green Man tour to see all the others (can’t remember if there are 19 or 29 to spot). An interesting connection between pagan and Christian.

Then it was time for coffee and cake followed by a compulsory visit to Toppings book shop, aka heaven. Tuesday has got a lot to live up to!

The extras: one for scale of the Green Man in situ and smack in the middle of the shot, the other is outside the east door, just had to get the sky in somewhere. 

Fun fact of the day: Medieval Ely used barrels of eels for currency. It seems that 8000 barrels paid for the stone in centre section.