{"id":2838,"date":"2016-07-15T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T09:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2016-07-17T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T06:35:46","slug":"clocks-and-weather-vanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Clocks and weather vanes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The quaint weather\u00a0vane in the shape of a cock\u00a0on top of the old St Peter’s church at Peterhead drew my attention when I was visiting the old graveyard the other day.\u00a0\u00a0 A closer look at it shows what looks like a smiley face and traces of paint.\u00a0 It must have once been very colourful.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing unusual about having a weather cock on top of a tower, but it does seem very appropriate when you recall the Gospel story of Peter denying that he knew Jesus three times before the cock crowed on that first Good Friday.<\/p>\n

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The poor cock also shows signs that it was used for target practice at some time!\u00a0\u00a0 It was the same problem that the fish suffered\u00a0which now proudly stands on top of Crimond Church spire.\u00a0 The fish had been lost for many years, and when it was eventually rediscovered and placed on top of the spire again, it too showed signs of air gun damage.<\/p>\n

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Crimond Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly the spire of the Muckle Kirk in Peterhead lacks a weather vane, a real shortcoming I feel.\u00a0 Just the lighting conductor protrudes from the top.\u00a0\u00a0 But perhaps I am prejudiced.\u00a0 I was brought up in Brechin and I could see the Cathedral\u00a0spire from my Granny’s house.\u00a0 I seem to remember a dragon shaped weather vane on top of the spire.\u00a0 Here is a project for me, the next time I am in Brechin;\u00a0 get a picture of that weather vane and see if my memory serves me right.<\/p>\n

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Peterhead Old Parish Church,. The Muckle Kirk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And while I am looking upwards, the clock faces are worth a look too.\u00a0 At Crimond the lock face is unique, having 61 minutes in the hour, because of a mistake by a painter.\u00a0 It also bears the inscription, “The hour’s coming”.<\/p>\n

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The Peterhead clock has multiple faces so that everyone can see the time, even though I have noticed they sometimes don’t tell the same time!<\/p>\n

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And to finish…..\u00a0 a lovely drawing of the Old Parish Church, inside and out by Callum.\u00a0 It has pride of place beside my desk at home.<\/p>\n

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The quaint weather\u00a0vane in the shape of a cock\u00a0on top of the old St Peter’s church at Peterhead drew my attention when I was visiting the old graveyard the other day.\u00a0\u00a0 A closer look at it shows what looks like a smiley face and traces of paint.\u00a0 It must have once been very colourful.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}