Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Whitby Weekend: Within the Abbey

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Sue Vincent

We did not visit the Church of St Mary, perched on the edge of the cliffs. I have to wonder for how much longer it will stand and was glad to have spent some time there on our previous visit … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Morning memories

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Saturday morning dawned bright and clear. Allowing a wonderful view over the fields to the Abbey which would be our destination later that day. The plan was to meet on the top of the west cliff, walk down into, and … Continue reading →

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Keys of Heaven (4) – through the bones of the whale ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The pale winter sun lies – to our symbolic view – just beyond the East Cliff horizon. Its lowness and lateness in the cold sky speaks of the approach of the winter solstice, a time of maximum darkness and minimum … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Night Lights

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Sue Vincent

We had, finally, booked into our hotels and headed back into Whitby to join the rest of the party for dinner. Arriving early, there was time to wander the darkened streets for a while and, eventually, call for a swift … Continue reading →

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Keys of Heaven (3): the synchronicity of kindness ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

There’s a certain ‘presence’ about kindness. Like the spiritual – or, more likely, as a part of it – the act of unexpected kindness drops into our lives like a messenger from the ‘Gods’. So it was with our visit … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: A Coastline of Ghosts

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It felt odd driving down the steep hill to Runswick Bay. I had walked down… and back up… that hill so many times before, equipped with a bucket and spade or a fossil hammer, skipping along beside my grandparents. Little … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Mysteries in stone

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It seems rather unfair to call the displayed Viking and medieval stones ‘the best bit’ of St Oswald’s church in Lythe, but in terms of excitement… and for me, at least… they were. I had seen them before…but once is … Continue reading →

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Keys to Heaven: Sobriety… Stuart France

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* With our third term, ‘sobriety’, we start to rise… By accepting the control we attempted to impose on the world in our ‘planning’ and singularly failed to exert upon ourself in ‘gluttony’. * Roads of excess can lead to … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Inside the church at Lythe…

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Stuart and I had been to Lythe before, some years ago, early in our travels, sent to the little church by a friend. The church is dedicated to St Oswald, a figure we have come upon again and again in … Continue reading →

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Whitby weekend: First stop, Lythe

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Several years ago, Stuart and I braved the bitter, biting winds of January to visit the Church of St Oswald at Lythe. There were, a friend had told us, stones…carved stones that we would want to see…and that trip had … Continue reading →

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