Tue 21st Mar: Burger and Church (Skipton cont...)
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Cato:
So when we left the castle, we went down the street past the church that is being used nowadays, and we found a fab pub!
We all had burger! and Dad had beer and Mum and me and Tara had water. Mum wanted not-water, but someone has to drive home. I wouldn't mind driving, but it is nice to snooze in the back after a lot of castling and pubbing, isn't it?
Anyway, we stayed in the pub with Mum, while Dad went churching, and museuming, and then we stayed in the pub with him, while Mum went churching.
Dad said that there was a 1st Folio of Shakespeare's works in the museum. But it was shut today for maintenance. 
He was sad. So he is going to go down to somewhere called London to sniff another Folio thing, one day.
This is inside the pub.
and this is outside the pub. the stone thing is called a mounting block. I widdled on it. That is burger in Dad's hand. We had to save our burger til after we left the pub. Tara doesn't think it is fair! I agree!
Mum:
I think it is best if I take over at this point, since Cato didn't actually see the church, so he won't be able to describe it properly. 
This is inside, standing just inside the door, looking towards the altar.
the altar, with painted carving behind it. Medieval churches all used to have bright painting on statues and across the walls. Then after the Civil War, Cromwell's men came through and destroyed a lot of the bright colourful stuff, and the ornate carving, and the walls were all whitewashed to cover up the paintings. Sometimes we get an article in the news of a new discovery of medieval paintings being discovered behind centuries of layers of white.
closer view of the altar
seats for the choir
Sorry this is blurred. The camera always takes blurred pics when there isn't quite enough light. I should turn the flash on, but I hate the washed out look of flash photos, and it drains the battery very quickly.
This is a Clifford tomb (the Cliffords owned the castle)
This is another Clifford tomb on the other side of the altar. Family coats of arms on display, and the family tree.
I wanted to take more closeups, but there were some people sitting nearby, and I thought they wanted to come in and see the icon (see next pics) so I didn't linger.
This icon was on special display. The languages are Greek, English, Hebrew and Arabic (I think), showing how international and universal faith is.
The card below shows a poem written to promote peace. On the other side of the card is a print of the icon on display.
and now for some rather nice stained glass.
After the church, and Dad's wander to the closed museum, we had a quick sniff round the town - which is lovely.
And look what we found! Shih Tzu sized doors. We think they are hiding fire hydrants.
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