Le weekend that was...
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Going through all my old posts via backing up etc. reminds me how much I miss posting to lj when I don't do it, so here's a proper wanderings post, because I did manage a bit of wandering last weekend - I visitedf_m_parkinson, and we went for a fab walk on Saturday. *g*
We walked through the watermeadows that controlled flooding around the river, a system probably introduced in the 17th century from Europe (says this website)...
...along wooded paths (through squelchy mud!), and over old bridges...
...luckily neither of us were terribly ponderous carriages, and we were were also careful to avoid the possibility of transportation... *g*
Past periwinkles (which weren't actually purple, they were the most gorgeous deep blue that doesn't show up here) and a cottage with an old Union fire insurance sign (I looked it up on this fab site. Apparently the Union company was started in 1714, and lives on today under another name.
We walked up roads, and finally reached our destination - somewhere to sit down and eat our packed lunch, and have a coffee too. *g*
On the way home we went past the home of the Singer - which I always associate with sewing machines, but was apparently also a bit higher-powered!
We also passed a church that turned out to be where Thomas Hardy's heart is buried... I thought at first that meant his wife or perhaps a child, but apparently most of him is buried in Westminster Abbey, because the executor of his will went against Hardy's wishes to be buried at his birthplace with his first wife, and a compromise was reached with his friends and family so that his actual heart was returned home for burial...
It's also the burial place of Cecil Day-Lewis, who I'd not heard of, but was poet-laureate, and also the father of Daniel Day Lewis. I liked what was written on these gravestones...
Back across the watermeadows...
...and there was history to explore! This is a memorial to German prisoners of war who died in the flu epidemic of 1918 - their bodies were later returned home, but the memorial remains. And then the story of the old mill here, with a date of 1590 on that old stone...
All quite apart, of course, from watching Pros and chatting about Pros and all sorts... It was a very lovely weekend amongst all the worrying things going on - I hope you were able to have one too... *g*
Going through all my old posts via backing up etc. reminds me how much I miss posting to lj when I don't do it, so here's a proper wanderings post, because I did manage a bit of wandering last weekend - I visited
f_m_parkinson, and we went for a fab walk on Saturday. *g*We walked through the watermeadows that controlled flooding around the river, a system probably introduced in the 17th century from Europe (says this website)...
...along wooded paths (through squelchy mud!), and over old bridges...
...luckily neither of us were terribly ponderous carriages, and we were were also careful to avoid the possibility of transportation... *g*
Past periwinkles (which weren't actually purple, they were the most gorgeous deep blue that doesn't show up here) and a cottage with an old Union fire insurance sign (I looked it up on this fab site. Apparently the Union company was started in 1714, and lives on today under another name.
We walked up roads, and finally reached our destination - somewhere to sit down and eat our packed lunch, and have a coffee too. *g*
On the way home we went past the home of the Singer - which I always associate with sewing machines, but was apparently also a bit higher-powered!
We also passed a church that turned out to be where Thomas Hardy's heart is buried... I thought at first that meant his wife or perhaps a child, but apparently most of him is buried in Westminster Abbey, because the executor of his will went against Hardy's wishes to be buried at his birthplace with his first wife, and a compromise was reached with his friends and family so that his actual heart was returned home for burial...
It's also the burial place of Cecil Day-Lewis, who I'd not heard of, but was poet-laureate, and also the father of Daniel Day Lewis. I liked what was written on these gravestones...
Back across the watermeadows...
...and there was history to explore! This is a memorial to German prisoners of war who died in the flu epidemic of 1918 - their bodies were later returned home, but the memorial remains. And then the story of the old mill here, with a date of 1590 on that old stone...
All quite apart, of course, from watching Pros and chatting about Pros and all sorts... It was a very lovely weekend amongst all the worrying things going on - I hope you were able to have one too... *g*
