BYB Sunday!

Photo of the Day
13.01.08
Jon, my husband.

I am blessed with a wonderful husband.
Today I was exhibiting at a local Wedding Fayre at Grinkle Hall Hotel.
For keen Hearbeat fans it was last week's location.

As I was talking to future brides and husbands it was great to see the excitement and anticipation written all over their faces.

The music was playing from one of the exhibitors speakers and when I was quiet I was thinking of the good marriage I have been blessed with and the fact we celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in June. I thought of Jon, working in the workshop whilst I was at the wedding fayre.

A Husband...

A husband should be
Loyal and honest

A husband should be
Strong and protective

A husband should be
Loving and romantic

A husband should be
Patient and understanding

A husband should know
When enough is enough

A husband should know
When to fight and when to cry

A husband should know
all your goals and dreams

A husband should know
your strengths and well as your weaknesses

A husband needs to be a true man
A husband needs to love you unconditionally
A husband needs to know your heart is forever his

sarah holmes

As I drove home I thought of our warm home which we both love so much.

Now we are "In for the Night!" LOL!

Thanks for all of the comments about my pictures.
They were taken on the Casteton Road, heading towards Hutton le Hole, the most desolate part of the Moors.

The Cross is "Ralph's Cross"
This is the story....




Ralph was a guide for the nuns at the Cistercian Priory of Rosedale when they needed to journey across the moors. One cold, snowy day whilst out walking on the moors, he saw a hand sticking out of the snow. At once he stopped and dug down into the snow, to find the frozen dead body of a man. Ralph recognized the man as a traveling workman - he used to travel from farm to farm, looking for jobs to do. Unfortunately, this time the man had made the fatal mistake of stopping for a rest and falling asleep in the snow.

Ralph was so upset about the death of this man that he erected a big cross, with an ‘R’ carved onto the front of it. Only a few miles further on was an inn called The Lion Inn (which is still there today), so if the workman had seen the cross he would have know he was nearly at a place of shelter. Ralph made a hollow in the top of the cross so that rich people could leave money for poor people to take, so they could afford food or even a room at The Lion Inn.

Ralph’s Cross is still there today, on the road between Castleton and The Lion Inn. However, if you’re rich and you take the money then legend has it that you will meet a nasty end. A fog will descend and you’ll start walking, unable to stop until you walk off the edge of a cliff! At the bottom of the cliff lie many skeletons with little piles of money next to them.