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Bluebells And Bloomsberries
May. 1st, 2025 07:46 am We went back to Bates's Farm and the bluebell woods. Anemones reduced to stragglers but the bluebells at their peak. To be honest I thought they were a bit disappointing this year; perhaps they haven't had enough rain. There's a charity bookshop at the farm- and I bought a copy of the Bab Ballads. This is a book I used to own but got rid of in some earlier winnowing of my library.
Earler we ate at the Long Man in Wilmington. Just as good as last time. Some of the seating comes out of Berwick church. Pews. And on the backs of them, regularly spaced, little plaques with the names of members of the Bloomsbury Group- who used to congragate at the Bell's house just up the road. I drew my fellow diners attention to this but I don't think they were as interested as I was. Can you not see the assembled Bloomsberries seated in their pews listening to a sermon, standing to sing a hymn- Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster? No, pehaps not....
I wonder if they drank at the Long Man- or The Black Horse Hotel as it was back then? Were they pubby types? I reckon I can see E,M. Forster sinking a pint more readily than I can see him siitting under a sermon. One could probably find out. Those lives are terribly well documented. But I doubt that I'll bother. I've searched my heart and find that I don't greatly love any of them.
Earler we ate at the Long Man in Wilmington. Just as good as last time. Some of the seating comes out of Berwick church. Pews. And on the backs of them, regularly spaced, little plaques with the names of members of the Bloomsbury Group- who used to congragate at the Bell's house just up the road. I drew my fellow diners attention to this but I don't think they were as interested as I was. Can you not see the assembled Bloomsberries seated in their pews listening to a sermon, standing to sing a hymn- Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster? No, pehaps not....
I wonder if they drank at the Long Man- or The Black Horse Hotel as it was back then? Were they pubby types? I reckon I can see E,M. Forster sinking a pint more readily than I can see him siitting under a sermon. One could probably find out. Those lives are terribly well documented. But I doubt that I'll bother. I've searched my heart and find that I don't greatly love any of them.
