I find myself not sleeping too well the night after after the Friday meal due to waking with leg cramp. But what a nice spacious room it is. And I can read my newly acquired book "Gut". I get up and made myself a cup of tea and eat the hotel bedroom biscuit. That is enough for breakfast! I set off for Tullie House 300 m away, but call in at the Cathedral 150m away first. - really blessed with this central location!
Carlisle Cathedral has been on the radio this previous week - as part of a competition to vote for the best Window out of a choice of the top twelve windows of English Cathedrals. So I am curious to see inside.
The choir stalls are in the centre of the cathedral, and a guide is showing a lady the misericords.. we then go round to the side and he draws open a very tall curtain to reveal a huge panel of pictures showing the life of St Augustine (The Cathedral was built as an Augustinian Priory in 1133 )
Various committee members present reports. We vote for committee members. We vote for trustees on council - two restanding ones and two new ones.
Then Mary has a new task - to present the Ursula Duncan Award. Ursula Duncan wrote the standard British "Lichen text /key" that people used 70 years ago, with black and white line drawings. The BLS gives an award in her name to people who have contributed to lichenology. I remember at the first BLS AGM I attended over 10 years ago it was given to Ishbee for her work in surveying churchyards. We had had to keep it quiet from her that she would be receiving it.
As Mary started talking about the LCIG groups and the LABS groups.. and how many Zoom sessions we had held it suddenly dawned on me who was getting it this year. .
Then it was lunch time. I ate in the Tullie cafe and sat with Sue and Les Knight and Allan Pentecost and met lots of other people. THen a quick glace at the displays again
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| Acarospora smaragdula on the Tullie House wall on Abbey Street. |
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We had talks by Les Knight on crusts on walls in Swaledale,
By Chris Ellis ..
By James Paton on crusts on his door steps in Edinburgh
Small gap whilst I look for my notes..... (to be finished shortly)
We had to pack up by 5pm to let the Tullie House staff clean up the building. I walked with Lesley from Otley and Allan Pentecost towards the station, as they had trains to catch, but a little spare time. All the cafes and bars were noisy andheavng with people. So we went to the sation and bought drinks at the Smiths shop there and drank them at the picnic table on the platform.
Then I returned to the hotel and found two groups, later three who had retreated to the hotel restaurant - having found Carlisle too busy on an earlry Saturday evening.
Then, anticipating the field work on the Sunday at the cemetery I decided an early night was called for... And I slept well.
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