tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post2807968225277594264..comments2024-03-29T01:52:49.317-07:00Comments on Codlinsandcream2: Carew Castle againBovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-48871368428214117512009-09-24T12:14:33.263-07:002009-09-24T12:14:33.263-07:00appreciate the work you put into your castle/histo...appreciate the work you put into your castle/historical blogs<br />---I learn a lot from them---so much to see in your countrysideit's mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701940616523413217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-29239146571830811642009-09-21T22:02:14.409-07:002009-09-21T22:02:14.409-07:00Glad you all enjoyed it. Mags - it is a very &quo...Glad you all enjoyed it. Mags - it is a very "approachable" sort of castle in its homeliness. Gone are the days where you just walked in and explored, sadly, but there were people walking round on Sunday and only went in the main halls - never ventured beyond, or climbed the stairs - or (I suspect) felt any sense of history. they didn't even go in the Long Gallery!<br /><br />Angie - I love taking photos through arrow slits and windows and doorways, using them to frame the picture. As for the blackbirds in a pie - well, I guess they thought differently then. Think of Lark Spits, and dishes of Lark's Tongues for heaven's sake . . . How prolific the wildlife must have been then.<br /><br />MM - Glad I inspire you. Britain's history is so amazingly dense and varied. I really must find some spares of the H V Morton books, as they are just "up your street" as mum would have said. He sought out the story, the people, behind the mundane or the everyday.<br /><br />I, too, thought of the Lion devouring the Rose of Lancaster or York . . . great minds think alike! I've just found this link http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkistage006563mbp/yorkistage006563mbp_djvu.txt<br />and bookmarked it to return to . . .<br /><br />I have the Sunne in Splendour here, borrowed from my brother-in-law dunnamany years back and for years raising my bedside lamp to the requisite level. I must get around to reading it!Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-44511971681442466302009-09-21T19:48:56.943-07:002009-09-21T19:48:56.943-07:00Me again. About those pictorial tiles: could the ...Me again. About those pictorial tiles: could the beast devouring the rose be symbolic of the "devices" of the various royals? A lion or boar or such making lunch of the yorkist rose?<br />Probably far-fetched and the fanciful product of too many sleepless nights! And I've had to look up "cockatrice" which was'nt what I had thought.<br />You do inspire me!Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-74374612382211258052009-09-21T19:42:45.091-07:002009-09-21T19:42:45.091-07:00Oh dear--I had written a comment and stopped to re...Oh dear--I had written a comment and stopped to read about the blackbird pie and contemplate the meaning of "cockatrice"--and of course lost the comment.<br />I was thinking how any historic "antiquities" in the US pale beside those in England and Wales. I can only be an armchair explorer, so glad that you present these interesting things.<br />While riding across the country recently I read "Sunne in Splendour" and thought, not for the first time, how DNA testing would have sorted the begotten of those dynastic lechers! In reading of legendary beauties such as Princess Nest and Cecily Neville, I wonder how they managed to keep their looks--endless childbearing, no dentistry, etc. I would have supposed they would be hags at 30 if they lived so long.<br />What is it with blackberries? The biggest and juiciest are always out of human reach. We can hope the birds enjoyed them.Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-60576732638535975242009-09-21T16:27:28.766-07:002009-09-21T16:27:28.766-07:00Amazing shots ...especially the 'slit' one...Amazing shots ...especially the 'slit' one.<br /><br />OMG ...read the 'birds in the pie' bit ... very interesting but yukky.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12177505346903016669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-53908681132570433492009-09-21T13:05:07.678-07:002009-09-21T13:05:07.678-07:00I love Carew Castle. We often take picnics down th...I love Carew Castle. We often take picnics down there and walk around the block. I have happy childhood memories of it too - and photographs of myself and my sister hanging out of the windows. I seem to remember it as less of a tourist attraction and more of a 'help yourself' castle. I'm sure you used to be able to just wander in and clamber all over it... but that was nearly 40 years ago! My children now love it just as much.Maggie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047691937064748860noreply@blogger.com