Sarcophagi...

I've had a day off, well a week really, so I went into Manchester city centre to take some pictures of entrances for the Manchester Curious Twitter Hour (@MCRCurious2016) that I'm organising for the 9th March between 7pm and 8pm. I hope that all the blippers who operate in and around Greater Manchester can take pictures of favourite entrances to buildings and tweet them at that time. I know you like to take pictures. And you can comment on others as well. Please join in. Cheers!

I went back to Manchester Cathedral again to take a look at the artworks that have been put there as part of the 'Be Still' Festival that is on in multi sites across the city for Lent and Easter. In the cathedral there are these beautiful giant pots. I thought they'd look good in a garden, if you owned Chatsworth House of course. The artist is Julian Stair. The pots are so vast that they can only be fired in industrial kilns, the kinds that are used to fire bricks. They are actually sarcophagi, designed as places where people could spend eternity. They are beautiful but I'm not sure about standing in one of the tall ones for eternity but the shorter ones, where you could curl up, look very comfortable.

The extra picture is more of the pots.