Heading North
Dec. 1st, 2024 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo And tomorrow we'll be buzzing up to the Midlands for another funeral.
Nice to have a car. Nice to be mobile again.
We'll be handing over Christmas presents too because we don't know what's going to be happening at Christmas itself and whether we'll be seeing any of the family then.
I wrapped the presents. I'm a lousy wrapper. We've said in the past that we'll stop wrapping things because the paper just goes in the bin and it wastes resources but we haven't had the courage yet to go against the grain.
We're going to take the journey there and back in two stages with an overnight stay in the middle. Eastbourne to Dunstable, Dunstable to Leicester- and then the same in reverse.
Nothing special about Dunstable: it just sits around the halfway mark.
Dunstable Priory is where Henry VIII finalised his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. Odd place to choose. Maybe it was safer to do it there than in London where there might have been demos against it. Dunstable Priory still stands, in a a reduced state, part of it having been repurposed as a parish church. The west front is splendiferous....
Nice to have a car. Nice to be mobile again.
We'll be handing over Christmas presents too because we don't know what's going to be happening at Christmas itself and whether we'll be seeing any of the family then.
I wrapped the presents. I'm a lousy wrapper. We've said in the past that we'll stop wrapping things because the paper just goes in the bin and it wastes resources but we haven't had the courage yet to go against the grain.
We're going to take the journey there and back in two stages with an overnight stay in the middle. Eastbourne to Dunstable, Dunstable to Leicester- and then the same in reverse.
Nothing special about Dunstable: it just sits around the halfway mark.
Dunstable Priory is where Henry VIII finalised his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. Odd place to choose. Maybe it was safer to do it there than in London where there might have been demos against it. Dunstable Priory still stands, in a a reduced state, part of it having been repurposed as a parish church. The west front is splendiferous....
