New Year in Tenerife with self-explanatory photos and high jinks – two weeks of lovely sun…!
Plus a couple of tasty birds – Grey Wagtail and Kestrel…
With another sunset to finish…
The Ancient High House in Stafford is well worth a whirl if a timber-framed Elizabethan town house is something you find yourself yearning for. It is, in fact, the largest timber-framed house in England, built in 1595 using local oak from nearby Doxey Wood.
Many of the original timbers bear carpenter’s marks suggesting that the frame was first assembled on the ground before being hoisted into position. With most houses of the era being of wooden construction, it was not unusual for houses to be dismantled and reconfigured in a different location – hence the expression to ‘up-sticks’ – meaning to move house.
Before having it lopped off, King Charles 1 laid his fair head on the plump, fluffy pillows (he wished) of the High House sleeping chambers when making the High House his temporary headquarters in 1643.
The main room of the house is on the first floor, and it was here that guests, including King Charles I and his nephew -Prince Rupert – would have been entertained.
The Ancient High House is now a museum a with period room furnishings and displays from the English Civil War and Victorian eras.
Now that we have started a new decade, this month’s Flat Disc Society films looked to the future of mankind and our relationship with little robots with these little offerings:
Katie Merrimen was perfectly cast as the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley at the Crescent Theatre – a highly entertaining reincarnation of the TV sitcom, which featured the novel appointment (at the time) of a new female Reverend.
Cue a series of battling wills between the new vicar and the head of the parish council, quirkily accompanied by a splendid choral ensemble.
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