See previous entries for today. So, on in the pouring rain with lovely blue sky beyond. We stopped at Batcombe, which comes from Saxon and means 'Bat's Valley'. Nearby is an iron age fort which possibly dates back to the Bronze Age. We entered the porch to find a locked door, an empty church without even a sign of the Ride and Stride day advertised on the leaflet. We were subsequently told...
You need to have read today's previous installment to understand the context. ...We obtained a leaflet inviting us to tour round some old churches - average 'age'- 600 years. What could be more boring than that. Little did we know who we would bump in to. Martin Buber (1878-1965) was a Jewish philosopher, theologian, story-teller, and teacher who said 'all real living is meeting'. We could also...
Thursday 8 September 1664 ...My wife this afternoon being very well dressed by her new woman, Mary Mercer, a decayed merchant’s daughter that our Will helps us to, did go to the christening of Mrs. Mills, the parson’s wife’s child, where she never was before... What a luxury to have a dresser. I recall that Selfridges in London had a fashion adviser who would without obligation give advice...
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