Last night Philip and I decided to get out of the house and go for a walk in York. It's really a very beautiful city at night, especially right now with all of the white Christmas lights. But as we approached the Minster, we saw something entirely unexpected.

The whole front facade of the Minster was bathed in coloured light and giant roaming snowflake. It was absolutely bizarre. The way the building was illuminated, it was like some giant digital cutout. It just didn't look like it was real anymore. It really looked like it had been pasted there after having been colourized. The Minster is already an unusual sight to my eyes because it's such a large and impressive building, but then for it to be completely covered in light and snowflakes was truly surreal. One of the strangest things I think I've ever seen.