Interesting. I think you must be right about having to have brickwork. I imagine it breaks up the facade nicely from the front view. It doesn't do much for it as a side view.

 

It's not bad. I just wonder what it does to the view from the inside.

 

Make them work harder?

 

Some more interesting brickwork for Catriona:

and


The second one (I think they are by the same builder, going by the use of the horizontal lines of angled bricks) annoys me a bit. It's a good effort of making a dull wall more interesting, but the window ruins the symmetry and the spacing of the lower patterns (DNA fragments? ) means they don't line up with the diamonds. Well, it irritates me!

 

Here's another way to use up a few odd bricks...

 

Saw this when doing my weekly shop this morning (the young chap running the Pretzel Bar didn't mind me taking a pic):


Triply interesting -
It's sideways...
...in two languages, and...
...it's a firmware error; never seen that before - the other screen, presumably the same system, was working fine. Mind you, thinking back, many years ago one of the bus-station screens spent some time displaying an Amiga 'Guru Meditation' error!

 

The book I'm reading is set in the 11th century. A bell is being cast for the church tower (interesting) but another thing was how the protestant minister would not allow the tolling of a bell for a funeral.
This made me look into the tolling of bells and finding out about a 'passing' bell for when someone is dying, followed by the death knell when someone had died, then the lych bell tolled at the funeral.
I've not been aware of any bells here apart from those tolled at service time on a Sunday.
Any of you know of different traditions where you are?

 

I can bore for England on the subject of bells, Catriona - I'll do so when I'm not at work or I on't get anything done!

Is 11th century a typo? That seems about 500 years early for Protestantism.

 

Went to Sheffield today - found this interesting...

Charles Street, Sheffield. iPhone