I wasn’t going to blog again, especially so as I have been out on a tour this morning. It was my inaugrial Sacred, Secret Gardens of London tour today and I was showing round a lovely PhD student studying medicine. Most tourists to London are content with seeing the big tourists sights such as Big… Continue reading London as you’ve never seen it before… at Christmas with the voice of an Angel.
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An Easter Walk
On Easter Sunday, I went to Church and I took my iPad so thought you might like to see some of the photos which I took.
The Bacton Altar Cloth Revealed To Be The Only Surviving Gown of Queen Elizabeth I
One of the things I like to do both when I am giving tours or merely pottering around the countryside in my own time is to stop off an explore village churches. Each one is a veritable box of delights and you can never tell what you will find inside. Almost always there will be… Continue reading The Bacton Altar Cloth Revealed To Be The Only Surviving Gown of Queen Elizabeth I
Grace Darling – A Victorian Heroine
Not many people know about Grace Darling today but 175 years ago her fame hadn’t just spread around the land but around the world and with good reason. Grace was the daughter of William and Thomasin Darling, just one of nine children born into the family in the early 19th century. Aged just a few… Continue reading Grace Darling – A Victorian Heroine
Why I love Buy Nothing Day and not spending money at Thanksgiving or Christmas
Saturday 29th November is Buy Nothing Day, a day or rather movement that started in the United States in protest of the over-commercialisation of our holidays and life in general. One of my earliest blog posts was on the reversing the commercialisation of holidays, Sundays and Christmas. It is hard to avoid spending money and… Continue reading Why I love Buy Nothing Day and not spending money at Thanksgiving or Christmas
The mysterious Lud Church and the Green Knight
Lud Church isn’t even a church at all but actually a hard to find crevice in the Staffordshire countryside on the south-west fringes of the Peak District. A narrow canyon in the ground over over 100 metres (328.1 ft) long and 18 metres (59.1 ft) deep. It’s a foreboding place and long has it been this way… Continue reading The mysterious Lud Church and the Green Knight
Visiting Montmatre, home of artists and Sacre Couer
So, we have just about reached the end of our short break in Paris. To be honest I could stay here a lot longer. There may be a few strange things about the place but overall I love it. It’s relative compactness and spacious feeling pavements and public transport are a delight and its overwhelmingly… Continue reading Visiting Montmatre, home of artists and Sacre Couer
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