History Girl has T.O.I.L and arrived last night. Back to Bognor!
Friday, 26 August 2016
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Trip to West End to see Mousetrap
We meet up with T of N's old work mates at The Two Brewers in Monmouth St. This is a lovely quiet part of Covent Garden.
Next we will see @EddieEyre, the son of the old boss, at St Martin's Theatre which has staged the production of The Mousetrap since March 1974, making it the longest continuous run of any show in the world.
Read more about the theatre here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Theatre
We all enjoy a curry with Ed at a near by restaurant and make it for the 20.35 from Padds
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Ale trail in Norwich
First Stop is The White Lion. Pint of Pegasus from the Milton Brewery
Next to the Garden House. After a 24 minute walk I am ready for a pint of Roosters Wild Mule
Another 24 minutes in the rain to The Beehive and a half of Oakham Bisops Farewell. All beers are excellent. Pouring rain. Taxi .
Trip to Wells next the Sea
P very kindly drives us all the way to Aunty T who we find in surprisingly good spirits considering her age and other difficulties. Then to Wells-next-the-Sea and The Albatross, the Dutch Pancake Shop. It is peaceful on board and the food is good and reasonable. T o N enjoys the beer. On dry land the harbour is heaving.
Views out to sea from Albatross
Views to land from Albatross
Delicious food.
We walk out to the beach. Of course, I am soon in the sea. It is lovely. 17 degs
We walk further to the spit
Up the dunes
And then back! Pub crawl tonight!
Saturday, 20 August 2016
Trip to Norfolk
We arrive at the home of part of our blended family, after long boring journey, have tea then walk out from Cringleford
A superb evening
View of Ziggerats (the university halls)
Here we are outside the Sainsbury Collection
The home to beer and lasagne
A superb evening
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Last day at the coast.
Various pressures and appointments are calling me back home otherwise I would stay longer. The company is welcoming and the weather just right. How nice to have family. So we walk on the beach and swim.
And on the way home, J the dog makes friends.
So I leave after lunch. The return journey is straight forward. No hold ups anywhere.
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Trip to Chichester
After a frustating time in the bank, we head to the cathedral.
Here is the Marc Chagall Window
Below is Shadows of the Wanderer
It's nice to have some tranquil time in this beautiful place, but we need to leave
It's time for lunch in the garden and then a swim. The weather is perfect, happy summer days, we are thankful for our lives.
Monday, 15 August 2016
Trip to South Coast.
After a drive that took twice as long as it was meant to, due to general poor infrastructure, holiday traffic and something called Boomtown, I arrive at my sister-in-law's. It's lovely weather and soon the journey feels worth while. After lunch in the garden, we take a walk to the beach past the duck pond.
And then back agan
Here's poor old Boris, who's buried two wives.
We manage to tire J out!
Then we head back for a swim. The water is as warm as the Cantabrian sea and I am in bliss.
Sunday, 14 August 2016
Another Sunday in Oxford.
ROff bright and early to Oxford. I listen to the news en route and become concerned about what life must be like in Aleppo and light a candle later to that effect. Lovely service and spiritually rewarding. Address by the retired and very fit octagenerian Peter Godfrey. It is of great interest to me as he did his undergraduate degree in Sheffield. He is highly entertaining. And uplifting. He has had an amazing life. He told us about the feminist Margaret Crook who taught him
A fearsome Catholic woman who lectured them on the woes of birth control but otherwise had sound values. She wore trousers constantly; when told in a restaurant in the US that women in trousers weren't allowed, she took them off. Wish I could remember her name.
And he moved in the same circles as the late Ian Ramsey who became Bishop of Durham, and I have just discovered went to the same school as my Dad.
Afterwards we chat about the Catholic attitude to life, viz, we are all sinners and must behave or rot in hell.
Later I am in the Weston Library to see the the exhibition Shakespeare's Dead. It is just a bit much. I am interested in Death and a member of Dying Matters but the literary interpretations of Shakespeare's work as always, defeats me. I get the main themes, and of course, it is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, so well done to the Bodleian Libraries for displaying a major exhibition that confronts the theme of death itself in Shakespeare's works.
Shakespeare's Dead looks at last words spoken, funerals and mourning as well as life after death, including ghosts and characters who come back to life. These themes are explored using key items from the Bodleian's famous literary collections that include Shakespeare's First Folio and the first Shakespeare playbook (Romeo & Juliet), a number of early editions and an extensive collection of plays and poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Fascinating to observe, impossible for those with a more scientific background to interpret. At least this one, who failed Eng Lit O Level. Despite being in love with Thomas Hardy.
Read more.
The Reformation introduced the concept that there was no hell or purgatory and no divine right of the clergy. William Shakespeare was right in the middle of all this. His father was born Catholic but was required to white wash and the religious posters of hell and sin.
After all that, it is time for a walk round Christchurch Meadow and home!
Remembering at the bus stop, thanks to the plaque on the wall of the courts, that motor vehicle manufacturer and philanthropist, Lord Nuffield, a self made man.
Then it is beer o'clock and time for a Renegade IPA
Certain people are meanwhile having a laugh in the BrewDog pub in Sheffiled, where we had fun back in May
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