Hopefully this will drown out the new neighbours filling loosening ‘music’!

Fish fingers and chips are calling.

…a couple of years longer and she would’ve beaten the French King Louis XIV. So disappointing, that and the Hundred Years’ War. 😬

It was very quiet and peaceful for a country road.

….the guides were really honest about its past. They didn’t pretend to have ship timbers in its roof, a tunnel to the local monastery or even the world’s oldest pub in its grounds.

The Norris Museum in St Ives has a very large wisteria around its courtyard. It’s well worth a visit. 🌺

I visited the house a year or two ago during one of the colleges open days. Quite quirky and I was surprised to find out it wasn’t as old as you would expect it to be. It definitely looks the part.

I always leave a bit in the jug to drink, butterscotch loveliness.

Quiet Northamptonshire this morning. A lovely spot for a tea break.

Edward III and John of Gaunt are quite pivotal in a lot of problems …and success that followed them.

What a guy, so influential in many ways. I learned fairly recently that Katherine of Aragon was a Plantagenet/Lancastrian on her maternal side. A descendent of John of Gaunt through both his 1st and 2nd wives. She had a stronger claim to the crown than Henry VII and Henry VIII.

…they had a bit of a menagerie in Peterborough too as Henry Bolingbrooke brought back some exotic creatures from his crusades.

I heard about this on Dan Jones ‘A dynasty to die for’ podcast. Mary lived and died at the castle. Right next to the Abbey, yet she was buried in Leicester. I’m guessing that it may have something to do with John of Gaunt having a lot of estates in the midlands.

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Kraftwerk - Autobahn
22:43 a masterpiece.

My friend had his bike pinched from Peterborough station, in a bike park next to the British Transport Police office and directly under a camera. They wouldn’t check the footage.

No, McCoys salt and vinegar before they ‘toned down’ the vinegar.

I can still remember seeing Tommy Cooper collapse on stage. We were watching it around my nan and grandads house. Didn’t think anything else of it at the time. I remember grandad commenting that Tommy didn’t take a bow at the end of the show.

I did wonder.

Heaven. An amazing looking collection of stouts there Roger.

Malcolm Tucker was a legend “you’ve got a face like Dot Cotton licking piss off a nettle”.

Apart from Mompessons Gold (a beer that’s rarely seen these days), I’m not a fan of Oakham’s beers. Far too hoppy for my tastes.

That’s my aunty Judy!

I was tempted to tour our local distribution centre then Covid hit and they stopped them. I may take another look to see how things have moved on in 20 years.

Mash I can take or leave it. But dissing roast potatoes is on par with high treason.

I’ve used NordVPN for a number of years, really handy when you want to look at things that are geo locked. I’m also really concerned about who would get my personal information for age verification these days.

I’ve never seen horse racing as something to get ‘excited’ about. I actually find ‘aintree fever’ a bit false and cringey.

For about three weeks we refused to wash up the filter coffee bag I the machine they used. I’m convinced that a small civilisation was evolving in there as there were many things growing.

I heard that it wasn’t busy last night. 🤪 Always good to win a quiz.👍🏻
I nearly ventured out but it was a bit windy to pedal my bike. Had to get out for a couple of hours this afternoon though.

Legend, robbed on Oscar night.