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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 8h

One of those songs that makes me well up whenever I hear it.

Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 10h

An ergonomic chair in the Mackintosh House, the rebuilt home of the Scottish designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

#Woodensday

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 10h

The hallway window in the Mackintosh house, the rebuilt home of the Scottish designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

#WindowsOnWednesday

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11h

Buckfast! I'm afraid that my immediate reaction even before I saw it was you was that this photograph was taken in Scotland...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks to Flanders & Swann, my immediate reaction is to search for the disused railway station!

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11h

2/2 A wider view of the mausoleum of the composer Francis Poulenc, 1963, in Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris. He shares it with his niece who died later the same year.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11h

Coloured glass set within the mausoluem of the composer Francis Poulenc, 1963, in Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 8: glass

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 Refusing to recant, they were executed by drowning while tied to stakes in the Solway Firth on 11th May 1685. The memorial was covered by a glass dome in 1867.

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

The Wigtown Martyrs Memorial, Stirling, by Alexander Handyside Ritchie, 1859.

Sisters Margaret and Agnes Wilson, aged 18 and 13, and Margaret McLauchlan, in her late 60s, were Presbyterian covenanters opposed to religious reforms of Charles II. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

More about the plans on the Diocese of East Anglia website: www.rcdea.org.uk/trinity-chur...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Inverness!

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Funnily enough, I went into the Oxfam bookshop in Ipswich this morning to discover that one section has been given over the Christmas tat. The deluge starts here...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 The former Trinity URC by Bernard Feilden, 1956 and the Catholic Cathedral of East Anglia by George Gilbert Scott Jr, completed 1912. The Diocese plan to use the former church as a base for the Syro-Malabar community, whose rite is widely used now in urban Catholic churches in East Anglia.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for anyone concerned about the future of one of Norwich's most prominent post-WWII buildings. Former Trinity URC church beside the Catholic Cathedral has been bought by the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia. It'll be used both for worship and as a community resource. 1/2

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I remember our visit together!

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

3/3 An angel with wreaths of Peace by Powell & Sons, c1970 at St John the Baptist, Felixstowe, Suffolk.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/3 Angels with wreaths by Charles John ffoulkes, 1898 at East Guldeford, Sussex. ffoulkes was the founding curator of the Imperial War Museum, and the son of the Rev Edmund Salisbury ffoulkes who became a Catholic but then converted back to Anglicanism, winning few friends in either place.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Peace.

A belichened angel for George Marrington, 1929, at Beaumont-cum-Moze, Essex.

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 Venison and wild mushroom stew (though some of the wild mushrooms came from Aldi!).

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Theres a good page here that might boost your confidence: woodlandclassroom.com/the-perfect-...

The Perfect Wild Mushroom For Beginner Foragers: Parasols - Woodland Classroom

There is something magical about the idea of going out to the countryside and finding

woodlandclassroom.com

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Delicious fried in garlic and butter, but discard the woody stems.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a great autumn so far for parasols. A few of those that Mrs K foraged this afternoon going in a venison stew tonight...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

And here are the 'iii sonnes and vii daughters' of Mary and John Revers at Chattisham, Suffolk, 1592.

More: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chattisham.h...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

I'm off to Bristol next week, a city I haven't explored for more than 40 years. Two cathedrals, St Mary Redcliffe, Art Gallery, Arnolfini - what else shouldn't I miss? buildings, churches, galleries, pubs, anything of interest welcome!

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

3/3 St Faith holds a saw in 15th Century glass at Gazeley, Suffolk. Beside her holding a hacksaw is probably St Apollonia, but may be St Agatha, it's impossible to tell without anything held in her pincers.

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