michaelhants.bsky.social
@michaelhants.bsky.social
Retired school business manager now charity trustee and volunteer cathedral guide. Posts may involve gothic architecture and stained glass and random other things.
Delighted to have joined the Virgers team at Winchester Cathedral as an honorary virger
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
View from the Quire at Winchester Cathedral of early evening sun on the Norman clerestory of the South Transept.The furthermost columns are said to have come from the old Roman forum of Venta Belgarum
June 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Great performance of The Score with Brian Cox at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
March 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It’s finally finished. A medieval build in miniature complete with a collapse at the East end and a long delay getting the Western towers completed!
February 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Glorious sunshine in the South Transept and tower crossing at Winchester Cathedral this morning
November 29, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Winchester Cathedral ready for the Diocesan Confirmation Service despite the pouring rain of Storm Bert
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM
One problem about getting older no one mentions is that your photo albums adhesion dies and all your carefully curated photographs (from birth, I might add) drop out. So, I’m busily working at refining and curating into new albums.

Realisation that instamatic cameras were not up to much!
November 20, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I meant to explain the picture in my profile. It’s my favourite misericord in the Quire of Winchester Cathedral. There a lot of other good ones
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
First post on Bluesky. Moving from X which was largely about the school business management & governance. Now retired it’s about other interests.

I’m a guide at Winchester Cathedral and a trustee of the Friends of the Cathedral.

So some Victorian gothic from the church at Stoke Itchen, Hampshire
November 20, 2024 at 6:50 PM