Hello, Elle!
"Pants" for awful is in use up here in the boonducks!
Language is alive, Elle, it evolves!
I did not go far on my walk.
I had my gloves on, though!
Yes, "Treasures" is an hour of magic, I think.
4, Alison has an ancestor called Stephen Hales.
He was a parish priest.
He was very interested in inventing things.
Like bringing ventilation into coal mines etc.
He was against gin!
They had all his books and Alison was pleased to discover that her ancestor looked very much like her granddad.
5.Thomas Hardy.
They have the hand written manuscript of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" donated by Hardy himself.
It is full of corrections as he wrote it, changing words and phrases etc.
And, I discovered, his heroine was to be called "Rosemary", but he scored it out and inserted "Tess", on the first page.
Rosemary of the D'Urbervilles does not have a ring to it?
6, Ancient cooking.
Alison loves cooking. Old English cooking.
There are thousands of ancient cookbooks in the library and they found one written on vellum (calf skin) from Richard 2's reign.
Then they took her to a London restaurant which does this type of cooking. They created the most realistic looking tangerine from pate.
And other wonderful stuff.
Alison donated the scores and recording she did of "Thoughts of Dr May".
I thoroughly enjoyed it!