The big chill.

I've had a day out. Ahter a lazy getting up, I went to Warwick this morning & pottered around the antique & charity shops,then on to Alcester & repeated the exercise, despite the snow. I bought a Royal Worcester entree dish in the Alcester antique shop, that I am very pleased with - a work of art - & a few other bits, then came home, then to jan's for coffee & decisions about the Easter cards that we are doing for the parish. I have been to the Ash Wednesday communion service at OW, but declined the ashing as I don't really understand it. Now, what to give up for lent, as a daily reminder? I'm aiming for swearing, though that's not a luxury, chocolate & alcohol I'm watching a programme about the authenticity of a fragment of JC's cross that is kept in a church in Rome we walked passed the church, but it was closed. No decisions, yet, but there really is nothing better on, absolutely nothing. Apparently, Emporer Constantine embraced Christianity in order to unify the then large & diverse Roman Empire. He sent his mother to find relics (who better to send than your mother?) She found a man who knew where the cross remains were buried, had him tortured until he took her there, & had the Roman temple removed, that had been built over the site. £ crosses were found, one bearing the Titulus crucis - the wood bearing Christ's name, from the top of the cross. She had the Church of the Holy Sepulcre built over the site, in Jerusalem - the most visited site in Christendom. Fascinating. It's cold & very windy here - gale howling down the chimney - bed beckons!