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Three Men Prepare to go A-boating; The French and Spanish Ambassadors Fight over Precedence; and a Ponder over Tricky Familial Relationships

Season 3 Episode 116

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Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and r…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Montmorency isn’t keen on The Idea 🚤 🐕; B Omrani ponders the effect of Christianity on the English landscape 🪦; and Gretel is finding a Positive Path through Grief

Season 3 Episode 115

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Good evening dear friends, subscribers and new listeners:  welcome!

This podcast seeks to rejoice in the world about us.  

Please join me on this journey of gentleness, compassion, curios…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

The Saxon Shore Fort and Monastery of Reculver; and Pepys eats Grapes and Melons (millons) for the first time

Season 3 Episode 114

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Erratum: I say it’s Monday which……. it isn’t 😬🥴

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Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets fro…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Wuthering Heights, seasoned with a little Pepys 🤓

Season 3 Episode 113

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Good evening and welcome to this episode where we conclude looking at E Brontë‘s startling novel, that takes an evening to read and a lifetime to digest.

Like the clouds above the moors,…

Published on 4 months ago

Gentle routine resumes with our readings: Bede, Pepys, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Book of Saints, closing with some Bijan Omrani

Season 3 Episode 112

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Good evening, I would be so honoured if you would join me for a long half an hour of gentle ponderings and readings, as we sit in a Dorset garden, and rejoice in the big skies and merry…

Published on 4 months ago

Montmorency helps Pack; John Cannon helps us Diagnose the late Perpendicular; while the Sea creeps Closer 🌊

Season 3 Episode 111

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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you to my new subscriber Majorie: I really appreciate your support so very much.  

If you have time and appreciate anything about …

Published on 4 months ago

Bad People created by Good Intentions; Heathcliff and Cathy; and a History of the Salt Combe

Season 3 Episode 110

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Hello and welcome to today’s episode.  Thank you so much for supporting this endeavour, with all its warts and all.  

Love Gretel xx 🪿

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Exploring the Wuthering and Extraordinary Heights; and Pondering the Problem with Ropes with Jerome K Jerome

Season 3 Episode 109

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Welcome and thank you do much for your company 🌞

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Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets fr…

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Bus, Dock and Hotel are locations for tonight’s episode where we Gaze into the 15th Century

Season 3 Episode 108

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Dear kind friends and (possibly bewildered) new friends, welcome to tonight’s usual slightly chaotic episode.  Thank you so very much for your kindness and support.

And do go very gently…

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Who thus define it, say they more or less // Than this, that happiness is happiness

Season 3 Episode 107

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Hello and thank you for joining me for tonight’s episode from Devon, where we eavesdrop on an outdoor Sunday church service; we visit St Winwalloe’s hilltop church; we conclude wonderfu…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago