Today's Church

Are you sure it's today's church Zigs? It looks at least 500 year old to me.

 

find it interesting to roam in old graveyards. reading the dates ect. sometime a story is there when a spouse says some phrase about the love passing. We have a graveyard not far, sometime taps are played when they bury a soldier, can hear it from our property.

 

You wait till you see tomorrows

"Here lie the remains of colourblind Ted, thought the lights were green, when they were red."

 

Quite true @redstar I was in the village churchyard a while ago, and the first thing that struck me was the age that people had passed. To be 80+ as most were is an achievement today, but when that age is on a headstone from the late 1500's, early 1700's...it becomes a lot more. It leaves me wondering the reason why.

 

No sugar in their diet.

 

Here's some useless but potentially interesting trivia that I read.

In the early days of the church in England, advocates of the new Christian religion had no beef with the fans of the older indigenous pagan systems of belief, and vice versa. In fact both embraced the ideas of each other (you can still find clear evidence of this in parts of Britain that retained their strong celtic identity).

In the early days of the church, people were not routinely buried in the church grounds. Instead the church was the social hub, where celebrations of all types happened, naturally usually involving dancing and merriment, and like any party, and big dollop of hedonistic behaviour.

When the church became more political, and a deliberate effort was made to crush the older beliefs, that's when 'witches' became the work of the devil. The church grounds started to become graveyards, initially for the high ranking members of the church, and so the parties in the church grounds became propaganda material to cast a bad light on pagans dancing around graves.

 

Perhaps.. most sugar here is converted to alcohol!

 

The medieval teeth i've found in graveyards have no decay at all, but they're usually cracked from a diet of raw turnips and millstone grit.

 

There was someone on the radio the other week that was saying that scientists have known since the 1970s that sugar is nasty for our health, but the sugar industry is so big they can afford to commission studies that show it in a favourable light, while at the same time bribing governments to turn a blind eye.

Apparently sugar is significantly worse than fat. The body knows how to deal with fat, but we haven't had time to evolve to work with free sugars (sugars that are not tightly bound at a molecular level).

 

We couldn't process milk as adults till about 6,000 years ago, wonder how long it'll take for sugar?

 

or they couldn't count .

 

I overheard the coppers asking the old farmer behind where I used to live how old he was, he didn't know

 

Hi Zigs,

Hope you don't mind me butting in on your thread.

This is my take on Marshwood church, drawn about ten years ago........

 

Brill

Not at all, we got a good game going now, I photograph the church, and you come up with a drawing of it