Our little town was more or less closed yesterday because of the storm.. Dh had put everything that might fly in the wind away and we made sure we had the torch and mobile phone with us in the bedroom. We did wake at 4 as the wind was howling, but all was well. I do hope anyone in the red and yellow zone were alright and no damage to your homes. Very frightening and the text warning frightened me when it went off, as we were very quiet here and the noise was a shock!
One year Dh and I went to York to do some Christmas shopping and we had an amazing time.
On the Sunday we went to York Cathedral for the Evensong Service. It was wonderful, the choir sang this and other carols, we thoroughly enjoyed it. The inside of the cathedral had its own atmosphere and we were both caught up in it all and it was very emotional.
When I lived in Billericay I always helped set up the church for the Carols by Candle light.. altho as years went on we didn't have real candles, 'Health and Safety,' but it was still a lovely service.
My grand daughter was part of Kings College, (Cambridge) Carol service one year and altho I was only able to see it on TV and couldn't really see her, I felt very proud. Her school was asked were there any children, who could be part of the choir and her teacher put her name forward. She had been 'Oliver' in year 5 in her school and 'Joseph' in year 6, so did a lot of singing.
How can you not join in when you hear singing like this.
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Chrisxx
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My sister and I went to Evensong at York Minster on our trip to UK earlier this year. It was wonderful… we also went at Winchester, Carlisle and Kings College Cambridge. Those four Sundays rank very high on my most memorable list!
Pleased to hear you are safe after Darragh
I'm glad you survived Darragh's blustering. We didn't get much of him here, but enough to keep us indoors. We explained to the dogs that they were having a day off, and they were very understanding. 🐶🐶
Oddly enough, although the alert went off on husband's phone (not mine as I'd previously switched off notifications!), neither of us heard it!!
The sound of a choir like that…heavenly!
Sounds like a terrible storm! I'm so glad you are ok.
Your granddaughter must be very talented.
I had to take quite a long diversion due to a fallen tree so i was late for church today
Such good memories, Chris. And beautiful music. We were in the Kings College chapel once, and the choir was rehearsing. It was glorious.
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