Work towards the new agency and its home at Cyprus Well has begun. Arts & Books now have a new base to work from, above The Book Shop in Launceston on Church Street, with a wonderful view of St Mary Magdalene. This week, there have been some outbursts of quite torrential rain, but the Church across the street is never anything but beautiful. Arts & Books is reminded of that line in Causley's poem 'Mary, Mary Magdalene', spoken by a nervous groom:Mary, Mary Magdalene
Underneath the spray,
What will you be sending me
On my wedding-day?
It's said that if you manage to lodge a stone on the back of the granite statue of Saint Mary Magdalene on the east side of the Church it will bring you good luck. If you're passing by, you should have a go.
Launceston in the rain is beautiful too.
