My ability to add articles here and more importantly to continue to set out the history of Parlington Hall on my main Parlington site has taken something of a back seat over the last few months as I have been seriously modifying rooms, and rejuvenating the rather tired look of the property we bought last year.… Read the full article
RIP Steve Jobs
The end of the
Reality Distortion Field!
That’s what they used to say about your vision, you got the last laugh… arguably the most innovative company ever! and now possibly the world’s largest, some achievement Steve!
A Visit to Derbyshire
Last Weekend we enjoyed a short trip to Derbyshire and after staying at the George Hotel in Hathersage, I can certainly recommend the food, although I did feel at the price it ought to have been top notch! Hathersage itself had a late summer feel about it, but of interest is that the George Hotel, and the village for that matter were a favourite of the great Yorkshire authoress Charlotte Bronte, and her novel Jane Eyre was set in the locale.… Read the full article
Site Down
At some point during the evening of Monday 29th or the early hours of Tuesday 30th, this blog went awol! We are now back up and running with an older version of WordPress, apologies for any inconvenience.
Apple & Steve Jobs
Those who know me will have no doubt that I am upset by the resignation of Steve Jobs… heck I’ve been using Apple products since the beginning of the nineties! I bought my first Apple machine in Hong Kong and remember looking at the “Next Cube” at an exhibition as an alternative and wondered whether it represented a better bet, but I stuck with my purchase of the PowerBook 140, I’ve never wavered since, despite some tricky times before Steve Jobs returned in 1997.… Read the full article
Roof Truss Sketch Goes Global!
A couple of years back, summer 2008 to be more precise, I constructed a virtual roof truss of the timber structure which once covered the Drawing Room Block at Parlington Hall, from the early part of the nineteenth century up until around the mid 1950’s. Below is a view of the sketch.… Read the full article
Barnaby Rudge
Given all the talk of the riots, and I have to say numerous mentions of the earlier unrest, termed the Gordon Riots of 1780, it seems only fitting to mention Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge, set as it was during that riotous period. So here is a picture by BOZ from the Philadelphia Edition.… Read the full article
Riots, not new, always a worry!
Gordon Riots 1780
Two interesting letters from the period.
Lincoln Inn Fields, London, June 3rd 1780 – Least my dear friends at Peel should be under any apprehension for us, on account of this mob, I will write to day to tell you we neither suffered fright nor danger by it, though they were very noisy all night, and there still is a continual crowd about the Sardinian Ambassador’s.… Read the full article
George Orwell was right!
Here is a quote from George Orwell, seems he was a real sage. On listening to mr edwin millipead air his views on the debacle caused by the journalists at the News of the World, I just had to make this point. Good bye millipead you are such a failure, do you think we have no collective memory, of your recent time in the labour government.… Read the full article
Are we on the Cusp of a Photographic Revolution?
Regular readers to this site or its sister, and bigger site, Parlington Hall, will realize that I have a great fascination with taking photographs of the location. Sadly other things conflict with my ability to get out and record the landscape with a digital camera, so the opportunities are limited.… Read the full article