Yesterday in Sheffield.....

...I wandered through the Winter Gardens admiring the festive flowers...
The Clematis water feature made from Sheffield Steel.......

and joined in with the heavenly singing of the carol singers.

I wandered into the Peace gardens and watched the dancing fountains for a while.

The Town Hall is very typical of many opulent northern Victorian Town Halls.

As I walked past, I noticed the doors were open, so I sneaked in. Ive never been in before. Apparently it was only open for a private function, but before he turned me back out onto the street, the security guard let me take a couple of photos. He told me that they do tours in August, so I'll have to watch out for these.

I always catch my tram home from outside the Cathedral, so I decided to spend 20 minutes wandering around in here too. The Cathedral building is half old,

and half new. I always believed that this was because it was bombed in the war, but on researching my facts found that this was not the case. You can read why here.

A very seasonal statue.

and the beautiful and very effective light from the roof of the newer tower.

Once home, I put up my tree and started making the house look a lot more festive. Ive tried to copy Carl Wilde's front door decoration. Its similar, but no where near as good. My daughter thinks it looks cool though, and a bit different from our usual run of the mill garland.