Tintern orbs
In early December 2019 my boy-friend and I spent a couple of days in Tintern, Monmouthshire, and spent some time exploring the beautiful ruins of Tintern Abbey and taking loads of photos. Later, when looking through the photos, we noticed four small glowing orbs in a panoramic photo of the Abbey (shown above). Could this be a glitch in the panoramic function on my phone (iPhone 4s)? Something that could be easily explained by an expert? Or something else? Any ideas anyone?
Emma Daniel
Penclawdd, Swansea
Strange hitchhiker
Helen Sharp’s recollection of a strange figure encountered at a lonely crossroads [FT428:67] brought to mind an incident that happened to me 28 years ago that I still find odd on reflection.
On 25 February 1995 I was returning to Lancashire from a concert in Leeds. This was at the height of ‘BritPop’ and the bands Supergrass and the Bluetones had been performing at the Duchess of York – an excellent and much-missed rock venue. After the gig, I drove slowly back along the A59 through a real pea-souper fog which limited visibility to 20 or so yards. The road was very quiet with little or no traffic about. The journey was taking much longer than usual and it must have been close to midnight by the time we reached the village of Gisburn just over the border into Lancashire. Both of my passengers (my girlfriend – now wife – and my younger cousin) were asleep.
