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Warmth for your ears in the Year of the Rabbit
Xīnnián kuàilè ! It is Chinese New Year’s Eve and, although it is icy cold outside, and we daren’t switch our heating on for too long, there is warmth and shiny red silkiness in my thoughts. Silkiness and silliness, of course. So far, on this website, I have mostly written about WATER, and every dayContinue reading “Warmth for your ears in the Year of the Rabbit”
The Award-winning Beaches of Tenby – and Ernest, my Stonemason Great Grandfather
A continuation of Lemon’s Water theme; thinking of those in deep waters Michaelmas, 2022 By Eva Griffith I recently met an old friend from a parish in Stoke Newington, Hackney: the church where I was married. She comes from Nigeria and her name is Mary, famed for saying “How are you?” and to me, inContinue reading “The Award-winning Beaches of Tenby – and Ernest, my Stonemason Great Grandfather”
An Interview with Tuscany
About its Water As I write up my interview notes on this day in August, Tuscany and I have smiled at one another, wryly. Rain was forecast for today. But none came. Rumour had it that it came in a neighbouring town. But others who live there denied it. I promise you: the clouds wereContinue reading “An Interview with Tuscany”
An Interview with… Bangladesh
About Its Water I am full of contradictions (said Bangladesh). I have about 405 rivers declared by the Bangladesh Water Research Foundation, plus 400 other rivers. So I have around 400-800 rivers. The main rivers are Padma, Meghna, Jamuna, Brahmmaputra, Shitalakkha, Ghumti and Karnafuli etc. Seasons, including the Rainy Season There are six traditional seasons,Continue reading “An Interview with… Bangladesh”
With Something to Say, and Places to Go.
Lemon Shakespeare has been researching all things related to her ‘lucky find’ of a survey showing new historical sources for London water. Using this as inspiration, she is up for learning about the environmental aspects of current-day water, and has material at the ready to share with you. Currently, Africa’s Water Crisis worsens; England isContinue reading “With Something to Say, and Places to Go.”
Watering: ‘The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’
By Eva Griffith (started 13th May, finished the 22nd) The Tudor Seckford Estate in Clerkenwell had many gardens – some of them given over to fruit and produce. I have recently been looking at a sixteenth-century book called The Gardeners Labyrinth (1577). It is quite likely that the gardens there were like that. As IContinue reading “Watering: ‘The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’”
“To hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature” (Shakespeare, Hamlet): William Bowes, the Goldsmiths Company, and the ‘Glasse of Repentance and Reformacion’
By Eva Griffith (begun April, finished May, 2022) Today, as I am writing this, infamy is high in the news, with an MP resigning for watching bad things on his phone, and leaders of political parties accused of partying in a time of pandemic. Our screens show how another leader is at war in Europe,Continue reading ““To hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature” (Shakespeare, Hamlet): William Bowes, the Goldsmiths Company, and the ‘Glasse of Repentance and Reformacion’”
Mills
Here is video footage of the Woodbridge Tide Mill, once owned by Thomas Seckford of Woodbridge, Suffolk, and of Clerkenwell, Middlesex (1515-1587). (It’s not Blake’s kind of mill at all.) Enjoy.
St. George’s Day
by Eva Griffith 30/4/2022 I started this article on St. George’s Day, 23rd April, which happens to be Shakespeare’s birthday. As I started it, I sat near where the 1599 Globe playhouse (Shakespeare’s theatre) was located, opposite the new Globe reconstruction. I was about to eat Turkish food. This makes sense to me, as theContinue reading “St. George’s Day”