Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Glory Be

Cardiff was the hottest place in the UK on Monday, a sweltering 33°C, Yesterday it got up to 32°C, today it's below 30 and we are likely to have some pyrotechnics in the sky. Its close and sticky and I feel sorry for little Elis who is getting all hot and flustered about it. Personally I'm not a hot fan, I like cold weather and mild sun, not the blistering baking inferno that we have here every summer for a couple of weeks. I'm sure I have some Scandinavian genes in me somewhere.

I took my life in my own hands, and on Nursey's advice went for a stroll inside Llandaff Cathedral. Why risking my life? Well after all the blasphemous atheism I have practised over the years, I fear that moment of high irony when the statue of an angel in the rafters comes loose and crushes the heathen with the camera in the aisle below. A bit like the priest in the first Omen film.

The Cathedral itself has been destroyed and rebuilt many times over the centuries - most recently it was blown up in WW2 - the inside is a mixture of styles and ages - there are some beautiful old tombs and bits.

Unsurprisingly, on the 2nd hottest and sunniest day of the year, the whole inside was gloomy and difficult to photograph in - most of it came out blurry. I will go back and take some more photos with a tripod at sometime. - you have to pay a pound to by a photography permit for the day from the old ladies looking after the place - which made me smile..

Here are some off the digitals I took.

Grizzled marble faces

And strange creatures

Weird remnants of a rotten corpse scultpure

A blurry tomb of St Teilo that I liked so much I made my desktop wallpaper

And some of the interesting internal architecture - check out the striped roof.

Posted by Dio Bach at 10:23

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