Month: September 2023

Photographs by Simon Bradford, commentary by our man on the spot. I recently received a rather curious note from a Dr Michael Halfwhistle, of Thames House in Millbank, London SW1, in which he asked in what I took to be a most unnecessarily stern manner, not just what I...

Photographic evidence from Jonathan Bridgland.  Detailed historic research by Sir Hardly Anyone. Now you may recall that recently a series of photographs (or “pictures” as we professionals call them) of the Uppingham walk, were published on this venerable site.  (Links at the end in case you missed them, but...

Photographic inputs by Jonathan Brigland.  Commentary by Ethelblue the Untidy. It is perhaps fair to say that not much has happened in Nassington after the visit of King Cnut in 1017 (a bit late for breakfast but rather early for elevensies) until Peterborough Ramblers came along and inspected what...

Photographs by Jonathan Bridgland, commentary by Sir Hardly Anyone (of whom it has been said). Ah King Cnut.  Famed King whose name is rightly written as Knútr inn ríki, which directly translates as Rickie’s hostelry famed for its Kings and nut cakes. King Cnut was King of England (or...