For #TympanumTuesday , the most lavish of the many portals into Engelbrektskyrkan, #Stockholm , with Christ blessing the children, and below, more oblique, people weep under the crown of thorns, and revive when they see the cup of the eucharist. An #ArtsandCrafts #ArtNouveau wow!

For # #OwlishMonday , a doorway owl keeps a vigil in #Stockholm , just part of one of the many fine doorways I've seen on my trip. This one, I feel, has seen some things...

Naughtily posting from #Sweden , I'm heading back to early spring with these for #wildflowerhour - wood anemone I know, and purple fumitory, then a yellow star of bethlehem, and a scilla, I think, but what's the purple flower with the anemone? Another anemone? #wildflowerid

Frankly astonishing #StainedGlassSunday discovered today by Emanuel Vigeland in Oscarkyrkan in #Stockholm - 33 windows in all, the most significant set by this artist in #Sweden . Here we see the Risen Christ, and, er, a serpent...

This was a great thrill to see today! It's me talking #Suffolk , #folklore , #fairies , #ghosts and, well, #museums , with the excellent Three Ravens Podcast! A cracking chat was had!

Some #Caterday cats at the National Museum, #Stockholm , by Vicke Lindstand, 1941. Missing my black and white Gwen when I see this cavalcade of b&w cats!

Something completely different for #SteepleSaturday ! This is Sundborn church, #Sweden , rebuilt in the C18th, all wooden shingled, with its separate bell tower of the same period. The typical Falu red colour comes from byproducts from the local copper and iron industries.

For #AdoorableThursday , this delicate ionic doorway graces the entrance to the manor house, and the other the main office of the Engelsberg Ironworks, in #Sweden , where I'm staying. I'm in the house on the right, the office. Yesterday was sunny. Today it's snowing!

It's #NationalDragonDay ! Spare a thought for all those tormented out of their lairs by saints and heroes alike, as shown at Lewknor, #Oxfordshire , by Powell's, c. 1934 #StGeorgesDay (in honour of my storytelling friend Chloe who campaigned for dragons, & is now flying with them)

One of two late C14th effigies languishing on the windowsills at St Peter, Dorchester, #Dorset for #MonumentsMonday , with a #tinylion apparently somewhat offended by his new position ... or a bad smell!

For #SundayStonework these two foliate corbels at Lewknor, #Oxfordshire caught my fancy - I've definitely had tangled headaches like the one on the left, and the hand seems to be a theme here - an odd detail, as Pevsner says, on this early C14th work.