There is a heavy misty greyness outside and I have been quiet for a couple of days the only photo I have taken is one of a bank, closed down of course, in Helmsley. We had coffee there yesterday, in a cafe that accepts dogs and even brings a bowl of water to the table for them!
Yesterday I spent some of the day looking at old photographs, and came up with the time when Paul and I were just getting together at Coate Water park. We had wandered round with Moss because this was Richard Jefferies country and I tried to draw a map in my head as to how he had played as a child in this environment, captured of course in 'Bevis'. Jefferies was melodramatic, and is hardly known about now, he wrote 'After London' a dystopic book of when the world destroys itself and a barbaric quasi early medieval regime becomes reality. He 'spilt his soul' upon paper in his nature writing, lying on a Bronze Age barrow contemplating the plants around him, or writing of the 'Roman Jug' espied in a cottager's garden, only Ruskin has come up to the same standard, or in my mind eye at least.
a quote from an earlier blog;
"Whilst reading Richard Jeffries book The Life of the Fields I came across an essay on The Roman Brook, Jeffries out on a walk one afternoon by a favorite brook of his came across an old man working in his garden. He stopped to chat, and the old man grumbled about how the hares, pigeons, rooks and water rats ate his vegetables and as he rambled on Jefferies saw an old jug hanging from from one of the apple trees in the orchard. On enquiring why it was hanging he was told that it came from the brook from the time of the Caesars and that lots of pottery and coins had been found also. The children played with the coins and the labourers from the village tried to buy their beer with them at the inn, but of course as they were Roman the innkeeper refused them as payment."
So what else has happened? Lady Jane has gone BROODY for goodness sake, sitting there like a stuffed hen, she refuses to move. Break the cycle is what I read, ice cold hot water bottle under her, no allowing into nesting areas. Nigel came over yesterday and tutted over her, bit late for putting fertilised eggs under her.
Good news is that Ben my grandson has got his place in a London university for fashion design, my daughter's birthday yesterday went off well with the children coming together and buying a takeaway and decorating the house.
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2008/05/bevis-by-richard-jefferies.html
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-reading.html
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2011/10/books.html
a quote from an earlier blog;
"Whilst reading Richard Jeffries book The Life of the Fields I came across an essay on The Roman Brook, Jeffries out on a walk one afternoon by a favorite brook of his came across an old man working in his garden. He stopped to chat, and the old man grumbled about how the hares, pigeons, rooks and water rats ate his vegetables and as he rambled on Jefferies saw an old jug hanging from from one of the apple trees in the orchard. On enquiring why it was hanging he was told that it came from the brook from the time of the Caesars and that lots of pottery and coins had been found also. The children played with the coins and the labourers from the village tried to buy their beer with them at the inn, but of course as they were Roman the innkeeper refused them as payment."
So what else has happened? Lady Jane has gone BROODY for goodness sake, sitting there like a stuffed hen, she refuses to move. Break the cycle is what I read, ice cold hot water bottle under her, no allowing into nesting areas. Nigel came over yesterday and tutted over her, bit late for putting fertilised eggs under her.
Good news is that Ben my grandson has got his place in a London university for fashion design, my daughter's birthday yesterday went off well with the children coming together and buying a takeaway and decorating the house.
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2008/05/bevis-by-richard-jefferies.html
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-reading.html
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2011/10/books.html
Reads like a lovely quaint family story. No rough edges, only interesting images.
ReplyDeleteNot quite sure what you are saying but glad you enjoyed it.
DeleteA happy post Thelma - apart of course from yet another bank closure. Our HSBC has closed here and it is so inconvenient. They want our money but don't give us much in return do they. Ours is going to be a Costa coffee house - as though we wanted another coffee house here.
ReplyDeleteCosta are snapping up the banks, they did the same in Pickering. Funnily enough Natwest which closed down a couple of weeks ago has been bought by the Bank of Ireland, it has a ATM in the post office at the moment, so perhaps just a change of banks. Though the post office has come up trumps as well.
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