I didn't spend that much time there. I didn't spend any time there, really, except going to the Minster. I was hungry to get back to the Bead Shop and the Focus Gallery. I got the bus from Nottingham town centre and I asked the driver if he went by the Minster, and he was all yes, sure, even though it didn't seem to say it did on the bus timetable I'd been looking at on the internet. So I got on and stayed on, and we seemed to be going in the opposite direction all the signs said was the way to the Minster. And then we stopped, because we were at the end of the bus route. But there was another woman on who was trying to get to the racecourse to see her daughter, who was down from Yorkshire with a horse, and she didn't know where to get off the bus or how to get there either. We asked the driver and he said "yes, it'll be fine, I'll TELL you which stops". The woman and I both laughed at how we'd thought "We'll just get the bus to Southwell" and assumed that would be FINE. Then she got off, and I noticed the Minster and realised it was totally not that easy to miss anyway. And I just got off there.
There was a woman in the Minster who jumped up when I came in and seemed to be expecting me to tell her what I was doing there. Then I said I wanted to see the art show, and she said "Oh, it's in the Chapterhouse", and then stopped at thought for a minute before giving me directions, which were basically 'Go straight on, and look on the left for a sign that says 'Chapterhouse''. She was a little bit twee. I didn't notice too much ugliness. And there were the people in the Chapterhouse who seemed to be giving me irritated looks for being there. When they were trying to have children do godly activities in it. And the groups of schoolchildren everywhere were a bit creepy, they were having weird talks with them about Jesus and Easter, but not just like speeches, they were asking questions so the children had to respond and be a part of it. And there seemed to be some sort of stage set up in the middle of the Minster, and I don't know what that was intended for. Children, or possibly something else. On a less creeped out note, I was mostly sad they were starting the brainwashing so young. But that's the point of the church and religious schools I guess.
Then I went straight out, had a look in the Minster shop, and then got the bus again from outside the Minster. It was a slightly different bus from the one I'd gotten there, and when I got on and showed him my return ticket he said "You know that's not our ticket though, don't you?", not the same company or whatever. And I was like "Oh right, do you want me to get off?". And he said "No, you can get on, I just wanted to let you know that's not our ticket." Which was odd. It's hard to know if he was a Southwell person though. And then I just got the bus out of there. My experience of Southwell was LIMITED. Mostly I just quite liked the Minster. I didn't realise it was going to be so big, I think. I was expecting something more along the lines of 'church'. I did get a look at the high street from the bus stop though. It looked full of old-fashioned inns, and plenty twee. Aside from that, I didn't see much of it. I got out of there.
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There was a woman in the Minster who jumped up when I came in and seemed to be expecting me to tell her what I was doing there. Then I said I wanted to see the art show, and she said "Oh, it's in the Chapterhouse", and then stopped at thought for a minute before giving me directions, which were basically 'Go straight on, and look on the left for a sign that says 'Chapterhouse''. She was a little bit twee. I didn't notice too much ugliness. And there were the people in the Chapterhouse who seemed to be giving me irritated looks for being there. When they were trying to have children do godly activities in it. And the groups of schoolchildren everywhere were a bit creepy, they were having weird talks with them about Jesus and Easter, but not just like speeches, they were asking questions so the children had to respond and be a part of it. And there seemed to be some sort of stage set up in the middle of the Minster, and I don't know what that was intended for. Children, or possibly something else. On a less creeped out note, I was mostly sad they were starting the brainwashing so young. But that's the point of the church and religious schools I guess.
Then I went straight out, had a look in the Minster shop, and then got the bus again from outside the Minster. It was a slightly different bus from the one I'd gotten there, and when I got on and showed him my return ticket he said "You know that's not our ticket though, don't you?", not the same company or whatever. And I was like "Oh right, do you want me to get off?". And he said "No, you can get on, I just wanted to let you know that's not our ticket." Which was odd. It's hard to know if he was a Southwell person though. And then I just got the bus out of there. My experience of Southwell was LIMITED. Mostly I just quite liked the Minster. I didn't realise it was going to be so big, I think. I was expecting something more along the lines of 'church'. I did get a look at the high street from the bus stop though. It looked full of old-fashioned inns, and plenty twee. Aside from that, I didn't see much of it. I got out of there.