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[burntcopper]

Mother has taken up baking. and now she's making marmalade. We shall see how far this experiment goes.

Yesterday, in a drive to get mum's preferred honey, we buggered off to Ewelme, a village in deepest Oxfordshire. OMG COLD. V. picturesque, though. Honey's nice and is sold from the village shop, which is staffed by volunteers. And has tasty baked goods. Pootled around church, which is fucking *massive* and had me and dad going 'benefactor?' 'Yeah, someone was worried about their immortal soul' and playing the guessing game of age due to architectural features and art (they didn't stint on the inside, either). We'd figured up to 16th century until we came upon the altar and the little bit of paper that gave the actual low down. 15th century, it turns out, seat of the Duke of Suffolk. Which is also known as 'seriously rich.' Has the tomb of Thomas Chaucer and his wife, who was the father of the Duke of Suffolk's wife. Tom was the son of Geoff, and the family tree... huh. Didn't know Geoff's wife Phillippa's sister married John of Gaunt. From there both sides of the family is like a litany of 'which buggers got involved in the rather nasty game of politics' - Percys, Poles, Greys, you name it.

had made resolution to start jogging this weekend but that got scuppered by the emergency application of hot water bottle. A bit annoyed with self since I really need to get on with finishing some of the fic in my notebooks (I think I posted all of 2 pieces last year) and all I seem to want to write is AU crappy original 'verse.

Switched on Radio 2 to get the Legally Blonde cast appearance, and got dad to run screaming from room. He has allergies. rather amused by the fact that on this show (Elaine Paige - musicals and film music) you don't just have to state the cast, you have to state the year.

Finally succumbed to watching Glee. Watched ep 2, waiting for 3 and 4 to dl. A bit irritated by the way they're portraying the teacher's wife as rather 2D, but glad she's getting a bit more depth once she finds out she's not preggers. May have bust a gut laughing at the kid in the wheelchair getting to do the pimp act during 'Push It'. Please tell me the minority kids are going to get more lines and some more personality...

Comments

[akadougal.livejournal.com]

Glee wanders back and forth on developing other characters but I think on balance it does succeed to a certain extent. Still investigating going to see Legally Blonde.

I'm now watching Glee with my mother. She loves it.

[bunnyk.livejournal.com]

I rather like John of Gaunt, from my limited knowledge of him - Anya Seton's Katherine. He sounded rather interesting (and I fell for him, of course...).

[dafnes.livejournal.com]

Katherine Swynford - John of Gaunt's third Duchess and his mistress of many years. Her children by Gaunt were the Beaufort's, Cardinal Beaufort being one of them. Her Great-grandaughter was Margaret Beaufort mother of Henry VII. Through her daughter Joan Countess of Westmoreland she was Great-grandmother to both Edward IV and Richard III. Both she and Joan are buried in Lincoln Cathedral beside each other.