tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post215808223895432352..comments2023-10-28T08:41:58.349+01:00Comments on Codlins and Cream: Lost in time . . .Bovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-40852657804269867922008-11-26T08:02:00.000+00:002008-11-26T08:02:00.000+00:00It would have been so hard for folks Nancy. They ...It would have been so hard for folks Nancy. They had so little. I walked five miles the other day and was able to rest when I got back. Women round here had to walk 10 miles to market, laden with produce on the way out, and laden with things they needed on the homeward journey.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-50180419381073383812008-11-25T15:52:00.000+00:002008-11-25T15:52:00.000+00:00I've had these same reactions in old places. A bi...I've had these same reactions in old places. A bittersweet reminder of someone - most likely a woman - doing the best she could to keep and beautify a home for her family. <BR/>This last photo is certainly powerful and dramatic!<BR/>Nancynancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587048072191384586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-10778109260430516052008-11-22T10:03:00.000+00:002008-11-22T10:03:00.000+00:00Another really fascinating post BB, I think I must...Another really fascinating post BB, I think I must do the same for the area where my house is which in the 1840s would have been just fields I think. It's so interesting to look back into the past and wonder about people's lives, I do it a lot especially when I'm travelling. Manchester city centre is, on the surface, full of modern shops and a thoroughly now sort of place but if you look up you see things like Corn Exchange carved in stone on the building. As for the Ann's - I'll bet one was an Annie and another one was Nan and so on. Really enjoyed this post as always.Rowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679130612798888266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-57395786014786415972008-11-21T14:14:00.000+00:002008-11-21T14:14:00.000+00:00Absolutely lovely BB, made me want to cry, especia...Absolutely lovely BB, made me want to cry, especially with all this darkness drawing in each night. Wales has that beautiful melancholy of the past, vestiges of lives lost. Miserable grey chapels and just loads of water like that last photo.....Haul out R.S.Thomas for a poem ;)thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-52407758367909502072008-11-21T13:42:00.000+00:002008-11-21T13:42:00.000+00:00What an incredible post. I was transported. How ...What an incredible post. I was transported. How hard life must have been then, but the bonds made must have been deep.<BR/><BR/>Really good post, really good.<BR/><BR/>Thank you BB.<BR/><BR/>hen<BR/>xxhenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14862469963939581449noreply@blogger.com