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Updating the lime tree images, I found this, which I was rather pleased with at the time

At Last

Internet connectoins failed totally during a time when I was too busy to post here anyway.
Went to York for the International Pipe and Tabor Players' Festival and spent Sunday afternoon in medieval costume (!) and fierce sunshine playing for the York Mystery Plays. We played for the waggon with "Creation to the Fifth Day" and then for the one with the Crucifixion, so we got the broad sense of the plot. Finished the afternoon watching the Harrowing of Hell and the Last Judgement, just to complete the picture.
One of the mysteries is what historical circumstance brought about the revival of this street entertainment in 1998?
Joel is here, and says he wrote a new storybook this morning. Funny, he said that last time he came.

The Lime Tree is now hopefully updated. Just to catch up on the inside story:


13th July, the last few buds before they flowered, 17th July


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The day we went to Bangor

Well, we never quite got to bangor, but it's hidden between Tregarth and Anglesey here, looking east

looking west

welsh mountain ponies


I spent quite a while chasing this dragonfly around, but this is the best i got.
It should look like this, I think (Southern hawker, female)

and I think this is a fritillary, but I'm guessing. this is at our friend Aly's house. Aly is a very remarkable man, generous to point of, having read my book, offering to read it again.

then we went up snowdon (by train; we walked down though). There's something very surreal about the summit of the highest mountain in England and Wales when its overcrowded with pensioners and toddlers. It somehow retains its dignity, but mostly from afar.






Clair has been tree-sitting while we've been away, so the Lime tree diary will be updated again soon. I've discovered that a lime tree was the centre of medieval german villages; those bagpipers that you see images of playing for people dancing around them are standing beneath a lime tree.