Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday for me was the finale of the Well Dressing. We went over for the afternoon to Tissington with 4 friends. It was good to see the carpark busy & was being very expertly manned by Debbie & Trevor - no cars crashed on their watch. We started at Hands well, which had the same [...]
Posted in Church, Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Saturday May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
At the well dressing service last week we had the good fortune to have the Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, the Rt. Rev’d Hilary Adeba, as one of our speakers. Following the sermon given by the Bishop of Repton, the Rt. Rev’d Humphrey Southern, Bishop Hilary gave some deeply moving remarks about how scarce [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Thursday May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I have to be honest I was working today so couldn’t make the service at Tissington. The church was full and people had to stand outside to listen to the Ascension Day service. Afterwards led by the Bishop everyone proceeded around the wells where a hymn was sung & the wells blessed. [...]
Posted in Events, People, Well dressing on Thursday May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the last 4 days I have given you clues and even partial pictures, so can you now identify the well dressing that I helped to create?
Can you also spot this well dressing, created by the children. What is this a picture of (and I don’t mean the finger on the left handside)?
Remember [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Day 4, everything has to be finished and part of the team worked until 11pm last night, rumour has it that the bottle of port helped! This morning I just concentrated on the background, thousands of camomile heads. The photo below shows the use of various leaves to form part of the hills [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Tuesday April 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The sun was shining this morning so the great debate was how many layers of clothes do I need to wear whilst working in a cow shed? The answer - as many as possible - thermal long johns, two long sleeved thermal vests & two sweatshirts - I had no intention of being cold.
Today we [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Monday April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This blog is not X-rated, but merely a new word that I learnt whilst working at Tissington today. This was the first morning of really getting our hands dirty. The designs for the Well Dressing had been marked on the clay & now we had to outline everything in either tiny coffee beans, [...]
Posted in Events, History, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the next few days I am going to be posting a “Diary of Tissington Well Dressings”. In 2007 I was fortunate enough to be invited to join one of the Well Dressing teams, either they are desperate or I did a reasonable job last year because I am joining them again.
The Tissington Well [...]
