Wordless Wednesday #6: Tarsier

Postcard Friday #5: Peterborough Cathedral from top

Peterborough Cathedral is one of the finest Norman buildings in Europe today and is a UK landmark.

As seen from the top, you will see that Peterborough Cathedral is shaped like a cross. Personally, this postcard is very interesting to look at. I'm imagining myself hovering at the top and looking down below. The cathedral is just as amazing from the top as below.

The origins of the Cathedral can be traced back to King Peada of the Middle Angles who founded the first monastery on the site in 655AD. The monastic settlement was almost entirely destroyed by the Vikings in 870 and rebuilt as a Benedictine Abbey between 960 and 970. The Abbey church then survived Hereward the Wake’s attack on the Abbey in 1069, and remained intact until an accidental fire destroyed the second Abbey here in 1116. It was rebuilt in its present form between 1118 and 1238. It became the Cathedral of the new Diocese of Peterborough in 1541 and it is now known as the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew.

Source: Peterborough Cathedral



Wordless Wednesday #5: Autumn leaves

Postcard Friday #4: Bishop's Gardens

Bishop's Garden in Peterborough is a small ornamental garden just south of Peterborough Cathedral and north of The Lido. Bounded by Bishop's Road, the garden was created as part of the Bishop's palace in the 14th century. The gardens, unlike the palace, is open to the public and is nicely laid out with rose beds and various other features.

Wordless Wednesday #4: Bluebells

Postcard Friday #3: Rivergate

Rivergate is one of the smaller shopping centres found in Peterborough city centre. I don't go to this place very often these days. From memory national retailers like Comet and Peacocks are just some of the shops you can find in Rivergate.

In the postcard, the picture was taken from the door that leads to the supermarket Asda. When I was new to Peterborough I used to go to Asda to buy groceries and Georg products. However, since it is some distance from where I work I soon got tired of going to it. My visits to Rivergate are getting sporadic these days.

Wordless Wednesday #3: Rick Kirby's 'Vertical face'

Revocation of US Independence

Photo: Elite of the World

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:

In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. 

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated sometime next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

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Postcard Friday #2: Grimeshaw Wood, Bretton: Autumn

Grimeshaw Wood is a local nature reserve that is managed by Peterborough City Council. This patch of ancient woodland now stands beside a built-up area that is North Bretton. The north-south road, Bretton Way cuts through it, thus, creating two patches of the wood.

Grimeshaw Wood, also nicknamed the Grime, is home to an array of forest creatures. Pipestrelle bats live here and nettle-leaved bell flowers are particularly evident in the summer.

I live about 10 minutes walk from Grimeshaw Wood. I'm familiar with the place because I sometimes took a bus that pass by it when going to work. But I have not been to the wood and it would be nice to check it out one of these days.

Note aside, a blogger gave this rather interesting observation on the areas near Grimeshaw Wood, which I also noticed:

The north-south road that cuts through the various parts of the Grime also provides a geographical 'tracks' with dense housing, no pavements, and a certain number of chavs on the east, with giveaway coloured road signs. To the west are big houses, open lawns, silence bar birdsong and black writing on white road names.

Wordless Wednesday #2: Seagull

Gimp my pic

Photo: GIMP

Have you noticed anything on my recent photographs in this blog? Yes, they’ve been Gimped!

GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is software that’s freely distributed in the web. It can be used in photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. (Source: http://www.gimp.org/)

I first came across GIMP a few years ago when I bought a Dell Mini 9 Linux version. It was the in-built image editing program of the netbook. However, I hardly used it for two reasons: first, I don’t feel the need to and second, it was difficult to understand.

I became interested with Gimp again because of my desire to watermark my photographs. These days I fancy myself as a ‘serious’ beginner photographer. Serious enough that I want to put my mark on my photographs!