Snow and John Peel

That top picture was taken as we turned up early to check out the church for our last wedding of 2005, which happened to be near Ipswich.

Luckily, it stopped snowing well before ceremony time, and the sun came out, so our bride had no problems at all with that long walk to the church door. She would have done in heels, but very sensibly she walked from car to door in flat shoes before changing for the trot up the aisle.

And by the way, that's St Andrew's church in Great Finborough, round the back of which lie the remains of one John Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel. The Liverpool FC scarf is still on his grave, but when we were there on December 27th, the glass of wine which was apparently placed on it on Christmas Day had disappeared ...