Stormy Weather II

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... as a big fan of Laurence Sterne I've always had a hankering to visit Coxwold - but is there, in fact, much of interest there?

IIRC, a pleasant market town - perhaps not enough to take up a whole day itself, but as part of a three-destination day out, enough to fund a few pleasant memories.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You deserve some decent weather, being in the north!

Blimey! You were waiting to pounce, weren't you!

[vinteuil]

... I fell in love with that entire riverside path a couple of years ago, and try & get down there at least once a year on the bike.

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... me too - I fell in love with it when first coming up to live in London in 1975 - and when living in England have never been far away from it. I lived for a while in the basement of the Emery Walker house ; did my courting on that riverside ; got married in Hammersmith Town Hall ; reception at Linden House (London Corinthian Sailing Club * ). I suppose we walk there at least once a week...

You might like the telly programme from last night about the Thames from Twickenham to Chizzick and its role in the Arcadian movement of the 17th - 18th centuries - Izaak Walton, Pope, Henrietta Howard, Burlington, Kent etc -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b090c4f6/in-search-of-arcadia

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London...n_Sailing_Club


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[Serial_Apologist]

Blimey! You were waiting to pounce, weren't you!

Long may you rain over us, ferney!

[Serial_Apologist]

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... me too - I fell in love with it when first coming up to live in London in 1975 - and when living in England have never been far away from it. I lived for a while in the basement of the Emery Walker house ; did my courting on that riverside ; got married in Hammersmith Town Hall ; reception at Linden House (London Corinthian Sailing Club * ). I suppose we walk there at least once a week...

You might like the telly programme from last night about the Thames from Twickenham to Chizzick and its role in the Arcadian movement of the 17th - 18th centuries - Izaak Walton, Pope, Henrietta Howard, Burlington, Kent etc -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b090c4f6/in-search-of-arcadia

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London...n_Sailing_Club


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Thanks ever so much for that iplayer link, vints - I completely overlooked that programme, having latched onto the one on BBC1 on the partition of India, which was, among other things to say the least, very moving.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Long may you rain over us, ferney!

I'm an absolute shower!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm an absolute shower!

As in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5LNIi5bAs

[vinteuil]

As in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5LNIi5bAs

... and yet, curiously, that's not quite how I imagine our ferneyhiccough to be.




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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and yet, curiously, that's not quite how I imagine our ferneyhiccough to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30M6szckb68

[BBMmk2]

I see that the weather forecasters have the day's events wrong, yet again. Supposed to have been the best day of the week, thus far. No chance. Rain in the morning, and roughly around 19C, later on!

[Lat-Literal]

Just down the road from you, Kenley was the wettest place in the UK yesterday, which isn't a bad going! Still pretty cloudy and cool here today; I'm just hoping Sunday turns out a bit warmer and sunner, so that I can hit the Thames towpath between Putney and Barnes and have one of the delicious veggieburgers at that pub just along the path on the other side of Hammersmith Bridge, before you get to Kelmscott House, a place of pilgrimage of mine.

I assume you have seen weather stations. I was shown the one for Kenley on the airfield on Sunday. Knew it was there or thereabouts but had assumed it was linked to the observatory on the other side of the road which is in a proper building. This is a caged off affair open to the elements and with various gauges. Makes sense but it wasn't quite as I had anticipated.

[DracoM]

Another fab, dry, sunny, warm, breezy day oop 'ere.
Skies cleared at sunset and a serious chill in the air on my prowl tonight.

[vinteuil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30M6szckb68

... yes, "cornfields and ballet in the evening" seems much more ferney. But hang on - I thought that was actually our Cereal-Apologist's persona. No, I think ferney is more of an Ian Carmichael -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2F8k5xjOTQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kshI_jkjZIM

[Pulcinella]

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... as a big fan of Laurence Sterne I've always had a hankering to visit Coxwold - but is there, in fact, much of interest there?


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IIRC, a pleasant market town - perhaps not enough to take up a whole day itself, but as part of a three-destination day out, enough to fund a few pleasant memories.

More a village than a market town (that would be Helmsley), so not much to see.
Church has a very interesting tongue-shaped communion rail, and some old stained glass (but rather too much awful more recent stained glass too!) and interesting monuments.
Worth a visit to Shandy Hall if you have a Sterne interest; house not open very often (we just went round the garden and chatted to the custodian, but he is happy to open up by prior arrangement if not one of his usual opening days).
Partner bought Martin Rowson's graphic novel interpretation of Tristram Shandy.
Very impressed with Byland Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey (both EH) and Rievaulx Terrace (NT), so got good value out of annual memberships as I will now read up and visit again knowing a bit more what to look out for.
Saving Helmsley Castle for another day.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... yes, "cornfields and ballet in the evening" seems much more ferney. But hang on - I thought that was actually our Cereal-Apologist's persona. No, I think ferney is more of an Ian Carmichael -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2F8k5xjOTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kshI_jkjZIM

- so true - so very true!