Moved

I took part in a "Saying Goodbye" service in Winchester Cathedral today. The service was for people to say good bye to the babies that they had lost through miscarriage or other reasons. I hadn't expected to be so moved. Seeing the pain of so many people. Crying and singing don't go together well.

In between rehearsing and performing, I wandered around the cathedral and ventured down into the crypt, somewhere I've never been before.

The crypt, which frequently floods, houses a statue by Antony Gormley, called "Sound II", installed in 1986, and a modern shrine to Saint Swithun. The mysterious statue contemplates the water held in cupped hands.

The cathedral owes it's survival to William Walker, the deep-sea diver who worked underwater in the crypt between 1906 and 1911 underpinning the nave and shoring up the walls. He died at the end of World War 1 during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, while waiting to come home.

Go large to see Sound II

Smile factor: This is my first bloomer. It tastes OK too.

Exercise: Sang my heart out. The cathedral is very large and there was only 16 of us

Footnote: Photo Mouse made it to the spotlight - thank you all