Jewel In Lincolnshires Crown

Which is the bigger jewel in the crown? Is it the poetry of Lord Alfred Tennyson, or the superb Lincoln Cathedral standing proudly for years over looking this fine city?

Often people say true beauty is in the small things, the little things one sees everyday. Everyday I see the cathedral, from different angles and distances. I see it close up like this, but also 35 miles away in the wolds. Wherever in Lincolnshire you are, the cathedrals presence and beauty is never far away.

The words of Tennyson now are as quintessentially English as the plays of Shakespeare or the Tikka of Birmingham. My school was very old school (excvuse the pun) and we had our individual houses. I was in Tennyson which really inspired me to study him as a younger man. He grew up in Somersby close to my school town of Horncastle. Inspiration sprang rom all around him but he had to use words to take his shots.

So you can decide which of the two is more slendid than the other. Tmorrow I'm going back to bring you the western front of the cathedral, which is aching to be photographed by me for blip!