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was shocking news and after ma had bolted down her lunch she ran home and relayed it to her parents ordinarily her father would have been at work but he had annual leave to use up and had taken a day off work so he was also at home to receive the news from his young daughter isn t that funny that he should have taken that particular day off ma told me that her parents couldn t really believe it so they turned on the radio and heard the bbc announcement which confirmed that the king was indeed dead although we now know that he had been ill for months with lung cancer ma says that the general public didn t know that at the time which was why the news came as such a shock the king s body lay in the church at sandringham until 11th february when the coffin travelled to london and was placed in westminster hall the king lay in state there for three days and my grandfather took ma to pay their respects apparently at times that queue was four miles long because in all more than 304 000 people passed through the hall before the funeral on 15th february there may be more family folklore to come later perhaps next year as both of my parents were on the london streets on coronation day in 1953 to watch queen elizabeth drive past in her golden carriage in the meantime i raise my cup of tea to hm and thank her for seventy years of service if nothing else she deserves admiration for enduring weekly meetings with those prime ministers and for wearing coats made heavy by the weights in their hems and hats with contraptions fitted inside to clamp them to her head and prevent them blowing off in the wind i don t have any photographs of the queen and her father to show you so instead i offer you this image of my mother with her father and younger sister taken in the summer of 1952 see you soon love mrs tiggywinkle x posted by mrs tiggywinkle at february 08 2022 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family folklore wednesday 26 january 2022 yours grumpily hello thank you for dropping in it has been very cold here this week not warmer than three degrees oo ooh aa aah precious moments as we sing in our house not bright sparkling makes you smile cold but dull murky seeps into your bones and makes you miserable cold the kind of cold which slows me right down almost to the point of torpor today the sun is shining which ordinarily would make me feel much more cheerful but in fact today i am grumpy very grumpy earlier this month i found a second hand copy of jane eyre in an online charity shop and i bought it i read a school copy of jane eyre when i was fourteen and last year i decided that i wanted to read it again as being very familiar with the novels of emily and anne bronte which is no great accomplishment as there are only three of them i felt uncomfortable about leaving charlotte out and apart from that jane eyre is a great novel with which any woman who considers herself to be a reader should be familiar i was truly tempted to buy a new copy especially as the crow emporium published a beautiful illustrated volume last year but in the end i followed my instincts and bought this copy instead it is a hardback in good condition lovely to hold in the hand and older than i am and i polished my metaphorical halo at the thought that i had acted sustainably and supported a charity to the modest tune of 7 i am enjoying reading it very much and yesterday i reached page 204 an idea popped into my head yesterday afternoon a couple of years ago my sister bought me a book written by jennifer barclay called a literary feast recipes inspired by novels poems and plays and i thought it might be fun to marry up my novel with the appropriate recipe i turned to page 179 and found a passage in which jane is served seed cake by miss temple the superintendent at lowood school hmm jane had left lowood on page 70 of my edition and i did not recognise this passage i had a look online and discovered many references to the incident which occurs in chapter 8 i scanned through chapter 8 and there was no seed cake this morning i have reread the whole chapter and there is definitely no seed cake i have reached the conclusion that my edition is abridged although that is not stated anywhere and i am mightily disappointed i am a serious reader with a very rusty a level in english literature and i do not want to read an abridged version of jane eyre i want to read exactly what charlotte bronte wrote harrumph have i made it clear enough that i am very grumpy i shall carry on reading the book because i am enjoying it and because i never leave a book unfinished but i think that i shall have to buy another copy yours grumpily mrs tiggywinkle x posted by mrs tiggywinkle at january 26 2022 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 17 january 2022 happy birthdays hello and thank you for being here i wasn t sure whether anyone would have stuck around and the fact that you have done has cheered me right up as promised i am back for a witter today is 17th january and i cannot let this date pass unmarked to begin with anne bronte was born on this day in 1820 i have read both of her novels agnes grey and the tenant of wildfell hall and if you haven t read them i wholeheartedly recommend agnes grey which in my opinion is the better novel anne s work seems to be less well known than that of her sisters charlotte and emily and i think she deserves better in 2010 i visited scarborough with the best beloved and the teacher we parked the car at st mary s church and as we were walking through the churchyard we came across anne s grave i had no idea that she was buried there so it was a surprise and it felt very odd to just come across her in such a casual way obviously i asked the best beloved to take a photograph i was pleased to see that somebody still cared enough about anne to have laid flowers but saddened by the dilapidated state of her headstone i know that coastal weather can treat stone harshly but i felt that the grave of such an important writer should receive some special care well it seems that little can be done to conserve the headstone itself but in 2013 the bronte society had some work done which included the laying of a new plaque if you are interested you can read about it here 17th january is a rather special day in our family for other reasons my great grandmother martha jane stevens was born on this day in 1871 she died more than twenty years before i was born but i have known this photograph for almost as long as i can remember and i have a tablecloth which she worked with knitted lace around its edge we use it at christmas and as i unfold it and lay it on the table i think of her hands doing the same decades earlier martha is pictured here in 1900 with my grandmother on her lap we have another family birthday today too the mathematician has been celebrating in guernsey while i have been wistfully remembering earlier birthdays little girls in princess outfits sausages on sticks and jelly wintry weekends spent in cosy cottages saturday sleepovers with a houseful of excited teenagers here she is on her fourteenth birthday which we spent in a cottage in north wales at her request happy birthday to anne to martha and to the mathematician see you soon love mrs tiggywinkle x posted by mrs tiggywinkle at january 17 2022 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 9 january 2022 i m back hello happy new year and if you are celebrating christmas this weekend happy christmas i am truly sorry for my prolonged absence i succumbed to the dreaded covid 19 in september and although i was unwell for only days rather than weeks it left me a few unwanted gifts when it departed these included a distorted sense of smell overwhelming tiredness and a lack of mental clarity i have been woolly headed for months due to a combination of this covid gift and some new medication i didn t read a book for two months i just couldn t concentrate on the words on the page and although i have been reading blogs i haven t felt able to conjure the words to either comment or to write here i didn t even have the energy to feel sad about that however i feel much better now and intend to write here regularly i have missed this little space i am aware that blogging has largely fallen out of fashion but i have never been particularly fashionable except for a while in the 1980s when i sported the most fabulous hair so although i am tentatively dipping my toe into instagram waters this is my comfortable place thank you for sticking with me i d like to finish by showing you a photo which my daughter sent me earlier this week just because i can t bear to leave without showing you a picture it was taken on the first really cold day of the year and shows her children wearing the mittens i knitted for them for christmas this bright little pop of colour has lifted my spirits all week and i hope it makes you smile too see you soon love mrs tiggywinkle x posted by mrs tiggywinkle at january 09 2022 20 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 11 october 2021 shrewsbury folk festival 2021 i bought our tickets for the shrewsbury folk festival 2020 in december 2019 hovering over the keyboard as they went on sale and bagging them at the cheapest price not that it s cheap at 167 for an adult weekend ticket with camping but at least the tiny people s tickets are free so a four day break for five of us cost 501 with unlimited music dancing and workshops and a full programme of activities for the children when the pandemic struck the festival was cancelled and we decided that rather than seek a refund we would roll the tickets over and use them this year it takes months to plan an event like this one so decisions had to be made in the spring when nobody could have foreseen what the covid situation would be at the end of august in may the festival organisers let us know that the format would be different this year and gave us another opportunity to request a refund if we didn t want to use our tickets firstly all the artists would be british based secondly there would be only three stages this year two large and one small and no marquees so everything would be in the open air and we would have to bring our own rugs or chairs this is a big change usually there are three huge marquees as well as the small outdoor stage and seating is provided thirdly there would be no dance tent so all the dancing would be outdoors and there would be no festival events in the town so no performances in pubs and no dance parade through the streets to the main square fourthly the children s festival events would also be in the open air we did consider asking for a refund at this stage because of the unreliable nature of our weather we didn t want to sit in a field in pouring rain hail freezing temperatures or a heatwave all of which we have experienced at the festival over our previous eleven visits but we decided to go ahead largely because we just felt desperate for some live music and a return to something resembling precovid normality we almost regretted that decision when the programmes landed on our doormat the weekend before the festival and we saw how thin they were in comparison with previous years so it was without my usual level of giddy excitement that we packed up the car at the end of august and headed off to our county showground my fears were unfounded the weather was kind neither cold nor wet and on the first evening we packed the tiny people into their wagon with blankets and pillows picked up our chairs and walked to the stage field we had all been asked to take lateral flow tests within forty eight hours of attending the festival and to keep away if those tests were positive people were sensible about maintaining a distance from others and as the longest johns sang and the sun and the wine went down i knew that we had made the right decision we were with our tribe i felt safe and my heart was singing as well as my voice i knew that it was going to be all right and it really was all right although the outdoor stages created a very different mood from the indoor stages we are used to at this festival i enjoyed the relaxed mood the space around us which meant that we could easily wheel the children in let them dance around and then fall asleep on our laps or in the wagon i met an inspirational woman named regina at least twenty years older than me and probably more who explained to me how she used her chair to steady herself when she stood up and then danced with one hand on it to maintain her balance she had come to the festival by herself and she told me that she had brought a tent for her toilet and was sleeping in her car i think that i want to be like regina when i grow up on saturday evening show of hands played a blinding set full of hopeful positive songs just what we needed eighteen months into a scary pandemic and when they sang about people who were fleeing afghanistan in fear of their lives and asked us to shine a light to guide them to safety we all turned on the torches on our mobile phones and held them aloft without feeling at all self conscious and we meant it even the best beloved on sunday evening the tiny people went to bed and the teacher and i sat outside our tents as we listened to seth lakeman and watched the lights beam across the sky the teacher commented that she always forgets just how much she likes seth lakeman until she hears seth lakeman without the large marquees the site felt strange and i found it difficult to orientate myself but the food court once i found it felt the same as ever and we ate some delicious treats in the sunshine tom kitten and cottontail would like to recommend the ice cream and the best beloved would like to recommend the stuffed crepes there were far fewer dance teams than usual but no dancing in the town meant that there was more dancing on the showground and it was surprising and delightful to come across these teams and their bands unexpectedly while i was waiting for my cocktail walking through the site the festival was small this year and felt rather subdued i missed the buzz many people said that they preferred the outdoor stages and that it felt more like a proper festival but they obviously weren t there when it rained every year between 2009 and 2018 and we were glad of the protection of the marquees i really can t compare this year s event with previous years it was such a different experience that it would be like trying to compare pears with oranges and i like both this is a small post for a small festival but before i finish i must show you one more photograph the festival finishes on a monday evening and we always stay over and leave just before midday on tuesday every year i take a photograph of the camping field as we leave before the volunteers come in to litter pick and clear the...