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Steve Fisher - Saxon's Ghost - Sherbourne - 1969

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All For Sale....

Lots of stuff and things on display at Castle Gardens, Garden Centre in Sherborne Dorset UK

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25th May

St Aldhelm’s Day

St Aldhelm’s icon at the Digby Chapel of Sherbourne Abbey. Source: Orthodox Christianity website

Today is St Aldhelm’s Day. Aldhelm was a seventh century Bishop of Sherbourne in Dorset. What was different about this saint, was that he was a great tellers of stories, writer of songs and player of music. At a time when the Church was busily converting the English to Christianity, Aldhelm allegedly attracted the curious into his chapel with exquisite harp playing. Unfortunately, the bishop’s copious ditties, hymns and poetry have all been lost with the exception of a treatise on the virtues of virginity, written for a convent, presumably on commission. Some miracles are attached to Aldhelm, including the legend that he thrust his staff into the ground at Bishopstrow in Wiltshire, which then turned into an ash tree, thereafter known as the bishop’s tree.

Several curative stories surround the ash. It is supposed to be able to cure rickets, hernias and toothache, and if combined with a dead shrew sealed up within it, it can cure ailing animals. In 1606, at Brampton in Lincolnshire, an ash tree was famous for its continual but indecipherable moaning and muttering. The locals recognised it as a talking tree and drilled a hole into its trunk, which they believed would enable the ash to speak more clearly. Unfortunately the tree continued to babble gibberish, so this early version of tree hugging ended up with the locals none the wiser.

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Ready for Jane's Walk 2018 #toronto #me #selfie #sherbourne #trc #janeswalkto (at Sherbourne station)

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Tunnel at Sherbourne Station. By Fromnatseyes.

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Prettiest stairs ever

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Metasequoia Tree by Richard Walker Via Flickr: Clear Blue skies seen through this unusual Metasequoia which is a rare deciduous pine. This fine example is in the grounds of the Castle Gardens Garden Centre at Sherborne in Dorset UK