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Post by jenny on Sept 14, 2024 18:26:38 GMT
Where is Horton Court? Somewhere near Bristol maybe? I haven't come across that one.
Today has been indoors and uneventful, but we had a very pleasant Mexican meal out with friends last night - I had a Baja shrimp bowl, which was delicious.
On Saturday evenings, because we are boring and old and rarely go out on a Saturday evening, we have a movie night and Saturday night chocolate. Because we're both fat bastards we try and avoid chocolate during the week, but we don't want to deprive ourselves of it all the time so Saturday night is our excuse.
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Post by Leith on Sept 14, 2024 21:01:27 GMT
Where is Horton Court? Somewhere near Bristol maybe? I haven't come across that one. Me neither, which surprised me as I figured it must be in our neck of the woods if Martin is there. I see it's just out to the north east of Bristol, in the lee of the Cotswold escarpment if I'm reading the map right. A nice little corner of South Gloucestershire that I used to enjoy cycling round. I shall have to pay a visit when next there's an open day.
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Post by amanda on Sept 15, 2024 11:28:32 GMT
Went to the city today for the chicken dish from a takeaway place. Also got a new phone-computer charger cable, I apparently need a Micro-USB connection as my phone has one. Then walking past the town hall, I see the Russian lady who also volunteers at the history library, in her Melbourne visitor greeter uniform. As she loves my cat from a distance, I show her the last week's photos since being at the school job these couple of weeks, means I can't go to the history library.
She then noticed the cloth bag I had, was coming unthreaded and said she would take it to sew back up. She did a great job last year on another bag. So we swapped the bag contents over to a plain black bag.
Then tonight I think/realise the bathmat smells a bit bad so hand wash it in the laundry trough, (and after 45 minutes, the water is dyed blue/green). As the weather is still cold and a bit wet here, I hang the mat over the side of the trough but that small section between the trough and wall is full of scattered cat litter bits and other things. I was going to clean it up another time but decide to do it tonight. And put some paper towel on the floor to absorb the drips from the bathmat.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Sept 15, 2024 12:12:50 GMT
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Post by pinklady on Sept 15, 2024 13:32:08 GMT
A beautifully sunny day at Horton Court. Loads of visitors enjoying taking in a place that's got the oldest occupied roofed building in the hands of the NT (a Norman hall dating to 1185), whilst being a well-appointed holiday let that sleeps 10 in great style. One visitor was impressed enough that he's going to look up the booking details when he gets home. The dates have already been reserved for 2025 and 2026. Hope I'm around to do them. The place I'd like to get to is the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. They have 4 of the Casali ceiling paintings removed from Fonthill Splendens when it was demolished and Dyrham Park has 5, with 2 more at the Holburne Museum in Bath. Someone was doing a talk there on them all in connection with the Open Days, but it was on Thursday when I was volunteering at Dyrham! I wanted to go to that talk, too, but was also busy. English Heritage gave a grant for the restoration of those paintings when I was first there, and I’ve always meant to go and see them back in situ. I’m glad that the holiday let is working out for Horton Court - last time I was there it was immediately after the last residential tenants had left, and it had deteriorated quite badly. I gather it is looking much smarter now (and there is less rain coming in!)
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 15, 2024 22:42:28 GMT
It's probably been well covered by other people but yes, Horton Court is not far from Chipping Sodbury on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment. It's now run as a holiday let by the NT, so it doesn't feature in the handbook. It can only be visited of the Doors Open days and we've only been part of that since 2022.
A couple of my Sunday team colleagues made me jealous earlier as they'd been to the Casali talk on Thursday. However, it's been recorded and, once someone sorts out the technological bits, it will be available on-line.
Straight from Dyrham Park to Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester for a couple of Gloucester History Festival talks. Firstly Waldemar Januszczak on Mannerist Art c1520 - c1600. I made the mistake of being the only one with his hand up when he asked if anyone had heard of Mannerism. Luckily, he agreed with my "Renaissance art gone a bit crazy" answer. Then Janina Ramirez ("my mate Nina" - long story!) in conversation with Stewart Lee. Back there tomorrow afternoon for 3 more talks.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 16, 2024 12:29:36 GMT
I saw some white dog poo today!
Proper 70s shit. Literally!
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Post by crissdee on Sept 16, 2024 12:39:07 GMT
I am well aware of the meme/trope/whatever about the absence of white dog poo, but if I'm honest, I have no particular memory of ever seeing it....
In other news;
At the risk of being accused of stereotyping. A local shop has in it's window, a clock which has been set into a large metal cog, such as the poster above may recognise from the pedal crank of a bicycle. This actually seemed to be quite a cool thing for a workshop or similar, except that it has been painted pink. Of course, it is as good a colour as any, but it seems an odd choice for something so "industrial" in nature...
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 16, 2024 12:56:43 GMT
It's probably been well covered by other people but yes, Horton Court is not far from Chipping Sodbury on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment. It's now run as a holiday let by the NT, so it doesn't feature in the handbook. It can only be visited of the Doors Open days and we've only been part of that since 2022. A couple of my Sunday team colleagues made me jealous earlier as they'd been to the Casali talk on Thursday. However, it's been recorded and, once someone sorts out the technological bits, it will be available on-line. Straight from Dyrham Park to Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester for a couple of Gloucester History Festival talks. Firstly Waldemar Januszczak on Mannerist Art c1520 - c1600. I made the mistake of being the only one with his hand up when he asked if anyone had heard of Mannerism. Luckily, he agreed with my "Renaissance art gone a bit crazy" answer. Then Janina Ramirez ("my mate Nina" - long story!) in conversation with Stewart Lee. Back there tomorrow afternoon for 3 more talks. Gloucester History Festival? Look out for a lady of mature years with fading red hair and glasses, with a twinkle in her eye. Could be Jodi Taylor, who lives there or Cheltenham. Writer of the Cgronicles of St Mary's, which Jenny and I may have mentioned a few times.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 16, 2024 13:03:51 GMT
In other news, I spent the morning, as is my wont, drinking coffee and perusing my social meeja. Somewhere someone started a power tool of some kind. Not unusual round here. But it went on And on And on.
It particularly resonated in my head and teeth, most unpleasantly. Mostly, such tools' noise does not bother me. But something about the pitch and timbre of this one really 'got' me. Wendy said she could hear it, but it did not bother her I went upstairs to our room at the back, in the hope that that would help, but nope. So I came back down and put together the ingredients for squatterbutt nosh soup, in the hope that the noises of frying veg and bubbling stick would cover up the annoyance. It did, to some extent. I think k it has stopped now, unless the operator has just stopped fir their lunch Very unpleasant and quite disturbing.
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Post by efros on Sept 16, 2024 14:41:43 GMT
After a rerun with added intensity of the flare up I suffered last weekend, this weekend I've had to take another day off work. I called my doc early this morning I will be on Prednisone pronto. I got out of bed this morning at about 12:55 am after about 3 hours sleep. This is about my average over the last 3 days. It took me nearly 20 minutes to get dressed and hobble to the living room. I had pain everywhere, even in my fucking thumbs! I briefly entertained the idea of going to work and maintaining a low profile all day, but the trouble I had making my coffee persuaded me that that was a bloody stupid strategy. To add to the general joy of living I'm experiencing, the stress of all of this has kicked my eczema off. My hands currently look like they've had a good going over with a cheese grater.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 16, 2024 17:12:51 GMT
That sounds miserable, efros. My sympathies. Unsurprisingly, my exposure to the 'horrible noise provoked migraine, and I have just surfaced after a couple of hours in the dark.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 16, 2024 18:41:56 GMT
GHF again. Talks on the Severn, archaeological digs on the new A417 bypass and the Templars. I think a friend of mine was involved in the digs. Also bought another book on the C17th. Cant make the author's talk as it's when I'm volunteering tomorrow, but it looks interesting from the little bit I read between talks.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 16, 2024 19:04:18 GMT
The last couple of hours have been rather more hectic than I expected. Mooching around the house, I suddenly remembered that I had arranged to meet my friends from the cowboy club at my workshop at 6 pm, so we could unload the club trailer and get the scenery into storage for the close season. Unfortunately, I remembered this at about 6.30 pm! Into the green monster, drove like my hair was on fire and got there a minute or two before they did! Everything put away properly, back home for tea and a chance to catch my breath....
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Post by amanda on Sept 16, 2024 20:17:36 GMT
I saw some white dog poo today! Proper 70s shit. Literally! I've recently seen that that was due to more bony material in the dog foods of the day, that it is now realised aren't necessary (as dogs are getting those things from elsewhere and/or commercial dog food manufacture has improved)
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Post by jenny on Sept 16, 2024 21:01:24 GMT
Many sympathies Efros - that sounds extremely miserable. I hope the Prednisone helps.
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Post by amanda on Sept 17, 2024 10:40:18 GMT
My extra long Tuesday is over - I woke up extra early this morning, decided to just get up at 5.45am as it'd be easier. The bus left at 6.55 am and I was thinking that's a bit early - then the way the driver drove like one possessed, made me wonder if it was actually the earlier bus running a bit late. Got to school at 8.20 am which was ok as I had to leave a bit earlier to get back to my suburb in time for the marketing session starting at 6 pm on the dot (though they had a ten minute grace period)
Got back at 5.15, got the last tuna/cucumber sushi and got to the host hotel at 5.45 pm. Had to walk home after it and got in around 8pm.
At least tomorrow I can relax, sleep in and wash my hair. Would have normally done it tonight if not for the marketing session.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 17, 2024 11:26:07 GMT
The power tool is in operation again. It is a distance away, and quite high pitched. Like a very large, angry bee in a jam jar before release. Another started at one point, nearer and deeper in pitch -- no problem.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 17, 2024 12:36:48 GMT
Rudely awakened by a cat sticking a claw into my little toe. I pulled it away, she thought it was a game and held on.
She's now fast asleep on the windowsill, nice and warm in the sunshine.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 17, 2024 12:40:18 GMT
The power tool is in operation again. It is a distance away, and quite high pitched. Like a very large, angry bee in a jam jar before release. One of our neighbours over the back are having their front garden paved over. We've been hearing a pneumatic drill on and off since 8am, interspersed with the rumblings heaps of rubble filling of a skip. Everything goes quiet and you think they've finished, when the bloody drill starts again!
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 17, 2024 17:03:55 GMT
What was odd about this tool was tgat it seemed to go on for si long at one time. Drills/saws etc go for a minute, change tone, then stop. This seemed to go for 10-15 mins unchanging in its sound.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 17, 2024 17:24:03 GMT
Lovely weather for a volunteering day at Newark Park. Got to do a couple of basement tours, which seemed to go down well with the visitors on them.
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Post by suze on Sept 17, 2024 17:43:17 GMT
The Kent taxi driver who looks very like crissdee of this Parish rides again!
I mentioned him once in another place, when he came to my school to take the Head somewhere. The Head doesn't drive, so unless there's a lift going - which is disproportionately often me, or so it sometimes seems - she gets a cab anywhere that is too far to walk or rollerskate.
He wasn't at school today, so much as at Asda. I dropped into that supermarket on my way home, and that very same cabman was collecting an older couple with lots of shopping as I walked into the store. He still has a long white beard, he still wears a fisherman's cap similar to the one that Jeremy Corbyn used to wear. But in new information, and while he didn't do this when on school premises, he also makes use of an e-vaping device. This is not one of Mr Dee's vices.
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Post by jenny on Sept 17, 2024 19:03:40 GMT
I'm not sure Mr Dee has vices as such, other than in his workshop - unless you count an unfortunate hankering after bladed implements.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 17, 2024 19:08:15 GMT
Indeed not, but I have been know to clamp an empty pipe between my jaws in a Bill Bailey-esque manner for the purposes of humour. I even have one laying around somewhere, which I picked up on my travels, although without a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber.....
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Post by crissdee on Sept 17, 2024 19:09:11 GMT
I'm not sure Mr Dee has vices as such,... How little you know me dear lady....
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Post by suze on Sept 17, 2024 21:57:57 GMT
Indeed not, but I have been know to clamp an empty pipe between my jaws in a Bill Bailey-esque manner for the purposes of humour. I even have one laying around somewhere, which I picked up on my travels, although without a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber.....
"I wonder how many real amber mouthpieces there are in London? Some people think that a fly in it is a sign. Why, it is quite a branch of trade, the putting of sham flies into the sham amber."
I knew that this was Yellow Face straight away, but I had to go to the bookcase for the full quotation. All the online versions of the text use the American text, and for some reason the American text always omitted the last sentence about fake flies. Fake amber these days is usually actually plastic, but I'm not sure what they'd have used in Holmes' time.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 17, 2024 22:51:06 GMT
I am less than convinced that there was any fake amber about in those days. Anything is possible, but I think this was another of Sir Arthur's assumptions, because it looked good for Sherlock to be able to tell the difference, and had his readers questioning the veracity of their own smoking requisites...
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 18, 2024 10:30:37 GMT
The Kent taxi driver who looks very like crissdee of this Parish rides again!
I mentioned him once in another place, when he came to my school to take the Head somewhere. The Head doesn't drive, so unless there's a lift going - which is disproportionately often me, or so it sometimes seems - she gets a cab anywhere that is too far to walk or rollerskate.
He wasn't at school today, so much as at Asda. I dropped into that supermarket on my way home, and that very same cabman was collecting an older couple with lots of shopping as I walked into the store. He still has a long white beard, he still wears a fisherman's cap similar to the one that Jeremy Corbyn used to wear. But in new information, and while he didn't do this when on school premises, he also makes use of an e-vaping device. This is not one of Mr Dee's vices.
Careful he may start to think you are stalking him. 😉
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Post by amanda on Sept 18, 2024 10:34:22 GMT
I saw some white dog poo today! Proper 70s shit. Literally! I've recently seen that that was due to more bony material in the dog foods of the day, that it is now realised aren't necessary (as dogs are getting those things from elsewhere and/or commercial dog food manufacture has improved) I've just seen some too today - left in the garden bed at the tech college near my place. And the whole pile is white.
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