Great Hall:-

Library:-

Ornate doorway:-

One of the lairds did military service and lost a limb. He commissioned prosthetic legs to wear, of which this is one:-

Jedburgh isn’t just worth visiting for the Abbey. There are some other interesting buildings in the town.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get far enough away to frame all of Bridewell Jail – now the Sheriif Court House.

Lower portion of Bridewell jail. Pity about hte traffic cones:-

Bridewell Jail Tower:-

Here’s an interesting feature; vertical sundials on a house wall:-

Jedburgh has a Jacobite connection. This plaque lets us know Bonnie Prince Charlie woz ‘ere.

That lad got everywhere.

So too it seems did Mary Queen of Scots. This is her house in Jedburgh:-

We hadn’t known this was there till we walked past a sign post for it it on the way from the car park to the Abbey. It’s well worth a look outside and inside.

This one from Astronomy Picture of the Day a few days ago really tickled me.

It’s a sundial but with an unusual (and unusually large) gnomon.

Located at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis in south-east France, twice each year its arrangement allows the sun’s rays to pick out the word solstice by shining through gaps in the metal struts. On two other days in the year it spells equinoxe.

Cambridge is a curious mixture of mediævality and the modern. Plus you take your life in your hands walking about the place. People on bikes whizz around almost silently. We nearly got knocked down several times. So many bikes are there parked in one spot I heard one woman say to her companion, “Well my bike’s in there somewhere but I can’t tell where.”

It was morning when I took this, and raining slightly – not many takers for the punts.

King’s College (entrance below left) is impressive, but you can’t get back far enough to photograph it all. See below right for the chapel.

Access to the river is also restricted by the various colleges’ grounds.

On a lane down to the river we saw this unusual vertical sundial – well, actually four vertical sundials, one on each compass point of the tower I suppose.

This is from the footbridge over the Cam that we were able to cross. More empty punts – though if you look hard enough you’ll see one being poled just beyond the right arch of the bridge.