I think it was Goethe who was responsible for the ‘architecture = frozen music’ equation. Ely Cathedral turns out to be a proper drink on a stick: here’s the Lantern, a feat of mediaeval engineering inspired by the previous tower’s demise and the need to be gentle with the foundations.
More Elystuff in a Facebook album.
I’ve been travelling in England over the past couple of weeks, visiting friends and being a tourist; plus a bank holiday weekend at the Towersey Village Festival, where the cast of thousands included Hand to Mouth Theatre’s Piggery Jokery (four seasons in under an hour – cue Melbourne gags) which deals with the unfolding of Life’s cycles. And sausages. Here you see Death/Winter monstering the Droning Crone.
There’s a very imposing Green Man who comperes the show from the top of the proscenium arch.
Apart from the mythical figures, there was a host of friends who I hadn’t seen for donkey’s ears. Mind you, some of us have been around long enough to be feeling a tad mythical ourselves…
