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The Tumbrel Diaries: The Orchard, Chorleywood
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Thursday, March 5, 2009. The Orchard, Chorleywood. For most of the First World War the William Pearsons lived in a comfortable house called The Orchard (above) in Shire Lane, on Chorleywood Common, at Chorleywood, near Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire, on the northeastern edge of London, within easy reach of town by the Metropolitan Line. Here they are, clockwise from top left: Great-grandfather William Pearson, who was barely 52 years old, with his elegantly groomed, spade-shaped beard. The rusticizing &...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Aunt Jean
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Saturday, December 27, 2008. Aunt Jean was a self-styled repository of dynastic knowledge, some of it bizarre, most of it true, all of it fascinating. 8220;Our immediate Borthwick ancestor,” she wrote gleefully. Not the meat Borthwicks (no relation), but the other sort. Two [Lieutenant-Colonel William Borthwick, and his son, naturally also William] were both present at the Great Siege of Gibraltar [1782–83]. One General Borthwick [that same son] was wounded at Cuidad Rodrigo.”. Spencer Percival, who was.
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The Tumbrel Diaries: The Pie Floater
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Sunday, December 21, 2008. A “ pie floater”. Is a traditional dish served at pie carts in Adelaide, and elsewhere in South Australia, the purpose of which is to provide sustenance to people attending Australian Rules football matches, and other sporting fixtures in really appalling weather. To the extent that it is not a dish so much as a dare that got out of hand, the pie floater may regarded as a very distant Commonwealth cousin of the Québecois poutine. The main justification for poutine. A well-known...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: On the road
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Saturday, November 9, 2013. You see many yelling illegally into their mobile phones, and sometimes even texting at the wheel. Motorcyclists are free from any obligation to wear helmets. These lethal habits know no distinction as to race, age, or gender; they are universal. And every Saturday morning on National Public Radio a succession of callers to. Connecticut department of transportation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Available at all good bookstores. For North American readers. Aunt Jean was a...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Grace M. Fogg
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Sunday, November 17, 2013. Grace M. Fogg. Did she have some objection to certain of them on scriptural grounds (or lack of these—although several more than three stations of the cross are absent from the Gospels), or was this simply a question of firmness in the face of an unfortunate budgetary overrun? Labels: Christ Church New Haven. Ezra D. Fogg; Grace M. Fogg; The Ezra D. Fogg Company. Stations of the cross. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Available at all good bookstores. View my complete profile.
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The Tumbrel Diaries: April 2013
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Saturday, April 27, 2013. Sophia, Electress of Hanover. The Act of Settlement 1701 was passed in the long shadow of the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688, which resulted in the deposition and flight into exile of King James II and the substitution by Parliament of the elder daughter of his first marriage, Princess Mary, and her husband William of Orange (the son and heir of King Charles I’s only daughter), who reigned jointly until Mary. Known subsequently as “the Old Pretender,”. Prince Maurice the ...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: September 2012
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Thursday, September 27, 2012. Vale Norway spruce, with many thanks to The Care of Trees in New Haven, Conn., who performed the operation with such amazing effic iency. I have now counted the rings, and it was 83 years old, exactly contemporaneous with the house. Poor old soldier. Saturday, September 22, 2012. The second was the opening passage of To Have and Have Not. Which I have never read, in which a young London-based artist Arthur Zouch—worryingly bearded—is delivered to Passenger Court,...These sen...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Au revoir
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. 8212;and, of course, Happy New Year! January 2, 2014 at 9:20 AM. I shall miss this blog very much! I have loved the breadth of interests and the lively posts which have introduced me to so many items in the world of history, art and especially our family history. I wish you every success and happiness in your return to Australia; I am only sorry that I never made it as far as New Haven while you were there. January 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Aunt ...
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Footnotes
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Friday, April 27, 2012. Mary-Claire van Leunen, A Handbook for Scholars. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, p. 91. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Available at all good bookstores. For North American readers. For readers in the British Isles. For Australian and New Zealand Readers. New Haven, Connecticut, United States. View my complete profile. The Orchard, Chorleywood. Some thoughts about yellow. Drinking champagne from a lady's satin slipper. Yale Center for British Art. Annie Trumble at Rockgrove.
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The Tumbrel Diaries: December 2012
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Monday, December 31, 2012. With what thought is it best to close this eventful year of 2012 amid the snow and ice? I suppose one could do far worse than to contemplate this detail plucked from Edward Hicks’s wonderfully appealing painting, The Peaceable Kingdom. Still, we know what is meant. The Peaceable Kingdom. It might even do us a little good. Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous, healthy and peaceful New Year 2013. Yale University Art Gallery. George’s Church of England. Still, it has served...
