Ceres or Demeter

It's Christmas Day, late afternoon and the town centre is deserted. The decorated lit-up building is the Corn Exchange in King's Lynn, erected 1854,  now a theatre. The statue on the top is, depending if you prefer Latin or Greek, Ceres or Demeter - goddess of grain and agriculture. Our word cereal is the link.

The area is Tuesday Market Place where we would  burn witches at the stake - a practice that ceased about 290 years ago.

It has been drizzling, the car park is wet and I rather liked the reflections. 

So here you have a mix of the prosaic and the frighteningly macabre for you to ponder as coal and wood crackle away in fireplaces up and down merry England this Christmas night.