True Colours Thursday & Color Carnival - RAINBOW!

Window shopping is one of my pastimes, and as I've probably said before once if not twice, if not more times, Dreamingspires Covered Market is a favourite venue of mine - no trip to town sees me not walk down it's parades.

So for my RAINBOW theme, have chosen colourful sights from there.

The florists The Garden was my first stop...

Then, The Hat Box...Followed by the various fashion boutiques for their wares...

And Cardrews the specialist Coffee & Tea shop for their kitchen section's RAINBOW items...Which just left a visit to the Celebration Cake Shop's window...

To join True Colours Thursday, whose designated blog home is HERE, all you need, is to post a photo/photographs & text, or better still both, on the specified colour of the week.
If you simply want to use the idea as a 'prompt' for a post, that is fine with me.
But, if, you'd like others including me, to visit you, please leave a comment on either site, so we know you are 'IN'!
For this meme only, I lift my 'Comment Moderation' to help players connect with each other.
Previous known participants are shown in the TCT Roll Call in my side bar.
Next week is colour CRIMSON!
And, please remember ideas for forth coming colours would be very welcome!

Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires colourful photo!

Two fer Tuesday, Color Carnival & Today's Flowers - Pretty Polyanthus!

Walking through the Covered Market past one of the florists there, was struck by this colourful display of Polyanthus...And, how very different they looked to the ones seen earlier planted out in the park...Hopefully, the latter after surviving the frost & snow will bloom as brightly as Spring draws closer.

Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires colourful photo!
Today's Flowers designated site is HERE!

Wordless Wednesday & Color Carnival - "Away in a Manger"!

Saturday Photo Hunt - Undesirable & Color Carnival!

Brighton's North Lanes have lots of crazy Art on display, as previous posts of mine have shown.

Some, may consider this Graffitti, undesirable [tnchick's prompt] but it's not to me...Even wild designs, like the above, brighten the area.
And, one never knows what colourful image the next corner may display...

Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo!
She's taking a break for December but me being me, I'm still playing!

Saturday Photo Hunt - Bird(s), PLUS Color Carnival & Camera Critters Sunday early!

Three memes in one today, with just a single photo, that has to be a first, even for me!
Now, since there is no way I can capture close ups of small birds like Blue-Tits or Robins, imagine my delight, when visiting the Garden Centre in Kent the other week, to find these...No zoom lens was required & pleasingly, they did not fly off when approached!

Tnchick prompt's Saturday's Photo Hunt.
Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival.
And, Camera Critters is Misty Dawn's creation - the blog is HERE!

Friday, the 13th AND Color Carnival - Brummel!!

Today's a seriously bad day for the superstitious & 'Triskaidekaphobiacs', ie those who have an unreasonable fear of the number 13, particularly Friday the thirteenth - not me, but I am interested in the mythology associated with the date!
Legend has it that, Christ was crucified on Friday; there was 13 @ the Last Supper & according to ancient Viking myth, the spirit of evil was the 13th guest @ the Valhalla banquet.
Which is why, many people reluctantly sit @ a table laid for 13 diners - so much so, London's Savoy Hotel, reputedly has a 3ft high model cat called Kasper, who is sent to the dinning room if there are 13 guests!
He's placed on the 14th chair with a napkin around his neck & served every single course!
I hope he looks like Brummel, from Brighton's Museum & Art Gallery, in the Royal Pavilion Gardens...This colourful cat figurine, since 1998 has stood @ the Museum's entrance to raise funds to maintain the museum.
And, is modelled on a pair of French Chinz China Cats to be found in the Chinese Exhibit.

Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo!

Color Carnival - Rocky Horror's Timewarp!

Brighton is always full of crazy surprises, which is one reason I love the place!
Innocently, walking along the sea front's upper promenade this morning in the direction of the skeletal West Pier, I suddenly felt as though I had accidentally stumbled into a strange world, a time warp...And, I was sooooooooooooooo right!
The latest adaptation of cult roll & roll musical 'The Rocky Horror Show' is on tour.
This week, it's home is Brighton's Theatre Royal.
And Brighton, being Brighton, hosted today, a Guinness Book of Records attempt @ the largest 'Time Warp' dance.
How perfect is that for Halloween?
Thousands of 'Rocky' fans - organisers said 1,570 people officially participated, I'll easily believe that too - dressed in anything from brilliantly colourful feather boas, fishnet tights, g-strings, bodices and high, high heels, whether male or female did two five-minute dances...They were lead by the shows creator Richard O'Brien and the current stage cast...
It was a hilarious, infectious fun, foot tapping event.
One, you just wanted to be dressed to take part in.
Or, @ least I did, hidden by make-up & a costume of course!
Birdling, my younger Canadian cousin, an extremely inventive theatre designer, who did the costumes for last production of 'The Rocky Horror Show' in Toronto & to tour across CA, would have been in her element!
The mass Time Warp attempt was filmed for the Paul O'Grady TV show on Channel 4, will have to try & watch it.
As I've never seen the film or the show - tutt, tutt - I did check to see if tonight's two performances had any seats left.
Sadly, 'No' was the answer @ the theatre's box office door!

Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires colourful photo!

Camera Critters Sunday & Color Carnival - Gnome Adoption!

Now, I'm unsure, if Gnomes really qualify as Critters!!!
However, suddenly a shop widow near me is full of them.
All recently adopted, they are showing their Autumnal colour's ... Their cheeky jolly faces made me smile & reminded me of Disney's 'Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs'.

Camera Critter's host is Misty Dawn, the blog HERE
Martha is the creator of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo!

Saturday Photo Hunt - ???, so Color Carnival - The Brolly!

This week, Photo Hunt host tnchick left it to up to us participants!
Her brief was simple...
"Free Week - Share any pix you'd like".
Now, that is harder than a prompt!

I took this photo yesterday, the building in the back ground is one of Dreamingspires very few half-timbered properties...However, what caught my attention was the street traders umbrella.
It was neither raining or sunny, so it was superfluous but it certainly was colourful!

Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival.

Two fer Tuesday & Color Carnival - Bills & Graffiti!

No stay in Brighton is complete without @ least one lunch date @ 'Bill's Produce Store' with Jackson's J1!

Bills unimposing exterior belies it's interior delights - renowned for great food served in a relaxed atmosphere, you are surrounded by it's visually tempting fresh & speciality produce...

I just wish Dreamingspires had a Bill's!

After a lenghty & throughly enjoyable lunch together, J1 returned to work & I checked out the North Lanes latest street art...This ever changing colourful graffiti is quite the feature of the area...

Two Fer Tuesday is Jonna's concept, just requiring two or pairs of images.
Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival.

Monday's Monochrome AND Colour Carnival - Sunshine Bikes!

Dreamingspires in & out of term time has bicycles a plenty!

This shot I took with Alieni's Monochrome Weekly meme in mind as B&W seems to do shadows justice...

Further along the same lane, another bike grabbed my attention.

In the shade it may have been, but it's colourful basket decoration made up for that...

Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo.

Camera Critters Sunday AND Color Carnival - The Ladybug & her Gardens!

Yesterday was the final 'Open Day' @ Cowmead Allotments.
Lame I still maybe, however I wasn't going to pass on the opportunity for a few more fresh vegetables, so I limped along.
As it was such a lovely Autumn day & the gardens are a peaceful spot despite being next to a main arterial road into the city, I stayed a while & took a look around, which is when I found this weeks critter.
The Runner Beans - String Beans to my North American readers, are nearly @ the end of their season...But, this Ladybird, one of the few I've seen this year, was happy to sunbath on one...
The gardeners may take the growing of their vegitables seriously, but I do love it when they brighten their plots with a splash of colour.
No 31 had a bold sign...While most had flowers ...And, I was very happy to add bunches of colourful Statice to my basket of edible goodies...

Camera Critters host is Misty Dawn, the blog HERE
Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo.

Two Fer Tuesday & Color Carnival - St Frideswides!

As I said yesterday, Christ Church College held an Open Day @ the weekend.
Whilst there, I took the opportunity to walk through the colleges chapel, which is also Dreamingspires Cathedral and is one of THE smallest in England...As major tourist attraction, it freely allows photographs to be taken inside.
The cathedral contains the ancient shrine of St Frideswade, the cities & universities patron saint...The daughter of a local Anglo-Saxon King, she took an early vow of celibacy & founded St Frideswide Priory, it's church being the first on the present cathedrals site - more info about her is @ the bottom of this post!
In 1858, the St Fridewide stained glass window was designed, and placed in the Latin Chapel where her shrine stands.
And, it was this brillantly coloured window, whose panels depicts scenes from her life that caught my attention...The sunshine streamed through the glass to create these rainbow patterns on the stone walls...

Two Fer Tuesday is Jonna's concept, just requiring two or pairs of images.
Martha is the creator & host of Color Carnival, that simply requires a colourful photo, but I never do things by halves!

Postscript.
For those interested, St Frideswides story goes as follows:-
Famed for her fair face & fortune as well as her faith & piety, she unfortunately came to the attention of Algar, a fearless pagan Mercian King.
Her repeated refusals to accept his proposals of marriage angered him.
With his pride wounded he declared her would take her by force.
Frideswide fled Dreamingspires, Algar & his army followed her.
After finding sanctuary locally, the actual place is disputed, she eventually returned to her Priory.
Algar, learning she has evaded him, he then attacked Dreamingspires.
Frideswade prayed for help & fate struck him blind as he entered the cities walls!
According to the legend, Frideswide subsequently felt great compassion for him.
She prayed again & was instructed to strike her abbess's staff on the ground, from where a fountain sprang up by her feet, it was these waters she used to cure Algar's blindness.
Further miracles are attributed to her, including healing a local leper with a kiss & the sign of the cross!
Frideswide died in 735, her feast day is October 19th.

Color Carnival & Wordless Wednesday - All the Fun of the Fair!

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