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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

In the courtyard of Ratzeburg Cathedral, a blessing for bees (with a hive next door)

A blessing prayer for bees in Old High German

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Good luck with "mission" against a local background like this.

The church of Scotland is disposing of our village church. Despite us indicating our interest in buying it for the community, they have advised that they will sell it to the highest bidder, and the community of Falkland will get no preferential treatment. Many generations have found comfort, hope and community in this building, and we hope this can continue for the future.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Ghost signs are one thing, but here's a ghost post box (on he wall of the former post box in Lauder, Berwickshire)

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

An icon of a very stern looking Christ from the "Icons on Ammo Boxes" exhibition in St Edmund's, Falinge. Perhaps he's looking at the world as it is today...

An Icon of Christ on a board, with a thin red nimbus, a gold tunic and a blue cloak over his shoulders.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 27/04/2026

A green hairstreak butterfly, not a brilliant picture, but it's the first one I've seen

A green hairstreak butterfly resting on a bush. The bush has needles instead of leaves

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026

The Germans call cowslips "Himmelsschüssel", keys to heaven. Are these looking for the lock?

A cowslip flower head with a clear blue sky in the background

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026

A dog-tooth violet from Branklyn Garden in Perth.

A yellow dog tooth violet, backlit against a dark background

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

From Nostell Priory Garden, a black and white picture of a fritillary

A white bell shaped fritillary flower against a dark background: the picture is a monochrome image so no colour.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

Early spring has arrived in Edinburgh judging by the tentative flowering in the Royal Botanic Garden. These pasque flowers looked as if they were shivering behind the protective hairs!

Two pasque flowers against a stony background.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

It was so cold we had to burn the palm crosses for 5 seconds heat!

A bowl on a wooden table containing burning palm crosses, with a slatted chair in the background

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas to all. Celebrated Christmas morning at St Thomas, Batley.

A mainly red Victorian stained glass window. Golden angels in the lights of the rose window at the top. Choir stalls on either side lit by lamps with red shades. In the foreground an altar with three candles, and underneath it an illuminated crib scene.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Lancashire Day! - a picture from "Real Lancashire" - you can change the admin are but not the county boundaries! Furness is "Lancashire beyond the sands".

A lighthouse shaped white monument to Sir John Barrow on Hoad Hill, Ulverston. The hill is framed by ivy covered trees and between the trees and the hill are a green field and stabling.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 29/09/2025

To Shap Abbey this afternoon: if you wanted to demonstrate how the buildings and outbuildings in an abbey related to each other this would be an ideal place to go. The abbey was obviously not rich enough to add extra buildings or alter the original plan.

Remains of stone walls of Shap Abbey in the foreground, with column bases in an open space in the centre. A stone built farmhouse with Georgian style windows in the background

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 27/09/2025

A chilly wind this morning, and a very welcome door

A door knocker with a dog's head in the centre with the tea room opening hours on a gold background on the left of the picture

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025

The light on Blackness Castle was almost enough to make you forget its history as a prison

A blue sky, with the stone built Blackness Castle in the centre. 3 black roofs visible on the castle. 3 yachts moored on the right of the picture.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/08/2025

Church closures are really not a new development (although this one is in England not Scotland). This 1906 Primitive Methodist chapel was apparently sold to the Church of Christ in 1925, but is now derelict. The original building (date stamped 1906) wrapped round behind the shop on the right.

An old chapel in a row of buildings. A two storey building with a gable surmounted by a cross in a circle. Upper floor and gable painted cream, but the paint is peeling. Lower storey is brick, with a row of decorative tiles above an entrance closed off with steel security gates. Lancet windows either side of the main door. View of building slightly obscured by (LHS) a blue van and (RHS) a gray van.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 12/08/2025

A visit to the wonderful Song School at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. An example of how Phoebe Anna Traquair illustrated the Benedicite on a mural surrounding the space. The influence of the Arts and Crafts movement and William Blake is clear.

Part of a scene depicting the first Easter morning in the Song School at St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh. Three figures with haloes, against a background of the Leaderfoot Viaduct in the Scottish borders. The haloes have Latin texts associated with the Resurrection inside them. Artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

The lovely and very old St Bega's church on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake, the oldest church in the Lake District. Nave and chancel date back to Anglo-Saxon times, though much restored in the 19th century.

St Bega's church chancel, an Anglo Saxon arch, Victorian dark wooden pews and choir stalls, with Victorian stained glass in the window. A pale altar frontal behind the communion rail.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 04/07/2025

The font (and open work cover) at St Peter's Heysham #FontsonFriday

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

The blocked doorway from inside the church

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

Inside St Peter's Heysham is a magnificent hogsback tombstone.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

The west side of St Peter's Heysham, with the original Anglo-Saxon doorway now blocked. The narrow window on the south side also appears to be Anglo-Saxon, but must have been moved.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 15/06/2025

Today is apparently nature photography day, so that's an excuse for picture of an avocet at Leighton Moss. #birds #naturephotography

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/05/2025

There has to be something appropriate in watching avocets, for a long time the symbol of the RSPB, in the "Eric Morecambe Hide" at RSPB Leighton Moss. And very lucky to see an avocet chick as well.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/05/2025

Good weather and interesting birding - also fortunate

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 03/05/2025

A little late for this year's commemoration, but this is the new memorial for workers in Falkirk

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 24/04/2025

Tulips in Holehird Gardens, run by the Northern Horticultural Society

A white tulip with green highlights, with a row of pink and green tulips forming the background.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/04/2025

A day in the fresh air birdwatching today, with a bonus of some early ducklings looking cute (as they always do!)

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 17/04/2025

Maundy Thursday, early morning light on All Saint's Batley

All Saints church Batley, trees and cherry blossom in front of the stone built church with a square tower on the left.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 06/04/2025

Precentor's box (for leading unaccompanied singing in the Scottish tradition) with the pulpit above. From the Tarbat Discovery Centre, in the Old Parish Church at Portmahomack, but placed as they were in the final remodelling of the church in the 1840's. #sermonsonsunday

A varnished wooden precentor's box, with a model of the church behind, and above both the pulpit from the Old Parish Church in Portmahomack, reinstalled in the Tarbat Discovery Centre

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

#windowsonwednesday Inverallan Parish Church Grantown on Spey, funded by the Countess of Seaforth in memory of her husband and son. Built in 1886. The windows are particularly elaborate - this one uses the letter S for Seaforth as the basis for the pattern

A gothic style window with the tracery forming the letter "S"

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 01/04/2025

Reflecting on a week on Northern Scotland, we came across the museum at Portmahomack - an exemplary use of a former church as a museum that (apart from the wonderful examples of Pictish stone carving) tells the history of the church in an inventive way. A fabulous place with helpful volunteers.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 31/03/2025

A walk along the promenade at Silverknowes was enhanced by this group of turnstones.

A group of turnstones (small wading birds) on a seaweed covered rock surrounded by water

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 23/03/2025

Daffodils fringing the harbour in front of the limekilns at Charlestown in Fife, reminding me of the saying that Fife was a beggar's mantle fringed with gold

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 09/03/2025

Who's watching who? Cormorant, and the tower of St Michael's Linlithgow.

A cormorant perched on a branch in the right foreground: in the left background the tower of Linlithgow St Michael's church with a gilded aluminium crown

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

There's a Tiffany glass window in Dunfermline Abbey church, gifted by Andrew Carnegie but not installed at the time as it was judged to be too secular. Now displayed in a lightbox in the church

A Tiffany stained glass window showing a woodland garden with a river in the background.

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025

A little detail from a doorway in Crail

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025

Crail harbour, possibly the most picturesque of the Fife fishing harbours

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Peter Kershaw @notthatelderpeter.eurosky.social · 17/02/2025

This looks like a double ghost sign. It's the former St Cuthbert's in Spottiswoode Road, but there seems to be another sign behind it. The unit is currently under renovation. The sign, alas, is very indistinct, and it's a long time since it was St Cuthbert's.

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