tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post6349094147564989833..comments2024-03-18T07:31:52.118+00:00Comments on North Stoke: Books and memoriesthelmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-31984948635159379732010-08-29T19:28:49.230+01:002010-08-29T19:28:49.230+01:00Hi Lucille, I think there are so many crossings be...Hi Lucille, I think there are so many crossings because Britain is such a small place and its history draws you like a magnet. Your son must be a good singer to perform at Minack, took me sometime to remember Derek Tangye and the cottage and donkeys....thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-69650822213879271312010-08-28T18:11:48.076+01:002010-08-28T18:11:48.076+01:00How many crossing tracks I've found in your bl...How many crossing tracks I've found in your blog. I came here from Mac'nJanet. Last week we were staying just off the old road to Abergavenny at Three Cocks. We meant to go to Llanthony but the weather closed in. We spent hours in Hay on Wye, love Avebury, I spotted a Winifred Nicholson that I have on my wall and my son has just gone down to Minack to sing in The Gondoliers!Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-66354670510533851662010-08-15T20:02:37.025+01:002010-08-15T20:02:37.025+01:00I must admit its a strange place Llanthony, its be...I must admit its a strange place Llanthony, its beautiful but a bit scary. There's quite a lot of history about the priory but I can't remember it..Someone called Williams wrote about the Welsh Cistercians, but nothing comes to mind..thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-4588270720821228772010-08-14T16:35:07.823+01:002010-08-14T16:35:07.823+01:00You write of my favourite places. My "connec...You write of my favourite places. My "connection" with Llantony Priory and Capel-y-Ffin is through introduction by the Revd. Francis Kilvert, who thought that the chapel looked like an owl. His famous diaries would be my desert island comforters (complete works though, including all the diaries his widow burned: "You will think I have been very naughty," she confessed . . .<br /><br />The little chapel at Capel-y-Ffin will always remind me of my mum's funeral too, because Psalm 121 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills" was one we chose to be read. The first stanza of this psalm is etched onto the window looking across the Welsh hills above the river Honddu.<br /><br />Every time we visit that magical valley, I think of Kilvert walking stoutly along it, and of Father Ignatius imploring his monks to work harder to restore the Priory. . .Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.com