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May 20, 2010 | An unusual way to wean a pup
15th century angel roof but the formula works. Take a three day walk out of your door and into the landscape. The dog goes too. Leave the puppy behind in good hands. This is the east coast of England – it is falling into the sea, quite literally and makes small wave and local newspaper [...]  May 1, 2010 | My old house is the really yellow one. I stayed with friends on Thursday night and drove through Lavenham yesterday morning. This place was fabulously wealthy in the 15th century on the back of the wool trade. It then became an economic backwater – nobody could afford to knock down and improve. There are about 400 listed timber-framed [...] April 25, 2010 | I have to tell you a little bit more Tudor courtyard of Okenhill Hall, Suffolk about Okenhill Hall, near the castled town of Framlingham. Well, the oracle – Nikolaus Pevsner – in “The Buildings of England” – Suffolk volume – is dustily dry: ” with a stepped gable and dated 1552. Two polygonal angle buttresses with polygonal finials. (are you still with me?) [...] April 24, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY patterned brickwork at Okenhill Hall A swatch of magnificent Tudor brickwork at Okenhill Hall – this is where I went today instead of tending and tilling the vegetable plot. The house is fabulous – apparantly in the Domesday book, the garden and woods tasteful and superb and the sandwiches and cakes, the stuff of dreams. Like it? Click [...] |
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