Winchester

Thursday 16 October, 2008

Alex gives a half smile here, but wasn’t very happy most of the day. He’d secreted a bag of cashews in his pocket and kept his eye out for hungry squirrels. But we didn’t see any squirrels yesterday. The ducks and swan in the Itchen were no substitute.

I was transfixed with wonder, on the other hand. I had not expected Winchester to be so pretty. From Roman to Anglo-Saxon to Norman relics and ruins. So much to understand, so little time.



Original comments:

Dad

Hang in there Alex. You Dad Loves you.

Thursday October 16, 2008 - 04:05 PM


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Elizabeth

Hi Maria and Alex Great reading about all your exploits. A mini documentary on Great Britain no less. It's just as well you love walking and are reasonably fit and Alex is young and lively. I read an interesting and I thought possible theory on the sward in the stone story. I could date back to the bronze age when molten metal was put into a stone mould to make a sword. This process was probably done on the fringe of the villiage (OH&S) so that when the villagers may have seen this remarkable removal of same thought it to be understandably magical.

Saturday October 18, 2008 1:21 PM