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Apologies for not keeping up with everyone - every time I go to read my FList I get about half way through and then get interrupted - then when I get back I read about half of what's now there... and so on. ☹️☹️☹️
And it's about a week since I last posted, too. Yesterday D-d and S2C and I went to an interesting talk at the Manx Museum Women in the Medieval Kingdom of Man and the Isles.
I wish I'd taken notes as it was fascinating but, as the speaker said, little consideration is usually given to the place and role of women within the kingdom. The result being that I can't easily find anything online about even the woman in the late thirteenth century who was married at an early age to the, older, King of Mann, then once widowed to a Scottish nobleman, also a good deal older, then to another Scottish noble with whom she had five or six children, and finally to her 4th husband who was an English nobleman. As she married and was widowed she amassed a large household and was well-off. When she died, in London, she was still acknowledged as 'Queen of Mann'.
Or Somerled's wife, who is never referred to in the Chronicles of Man by name even though the writer thought her the cause of all the problems of the kingdom. He decries her for urging her sons to kill their uncle for abandoning his wife, her sister, in favour of a better dynastic marriage. We know her sister's name - so it is as if the author of the Chronicles chose not to record the queen's name as a form of punishment.
In a conversation with D-d we discussed the end slices of cakes baked in a loaf tin - like fruit loaf, gingerbread, lemon drizzle and so on. She always thought the NYM was a bit mean because when it got down to the end of such a cake he always kept the last proper slice and gave her the crust, and in our family the crust is the least desirable bit. Recently, almost 9 years after they first became a couple, she discovered that, in his family, the crust is regarded as the best bit of the cake - and all these years, rather than being a bit mean, he was giving her what he thought of as the choicest portion :)
As she said, this means that, now, they can spend the rest of their lives each getting what they think of as the best bit!
And, finally, a few garden pictures -
And TT starts on Monday - I have at least 6 cakes already in the freezer, and also a lot of bags of grated, and weighed, carrot for making carrot cake. The weather doesn't look terribly promising, but hopefully I will get the odd hour or two to sit out in the garden and just be.
And it's about a week since I last posted, too. Yesterday D-d and S2C and I went to an interesting talk at the Manx Museum Women in the Medieval Kingdom of Man and the Isles.
I wish I'd taken notes as it was fascinating but, as the speaker said, little consideration is usually given to the place and role of women within the kingdom. The result being that I can't easily find anything online about even the woman in the late thirteenth century who was married at an early age to the, older, King of Mann, then once widowed to a Scottish nobleman, also a good deal older, then to another Scottish noble with whom she had five or six children, and finally to her 4th husband who was an English nobleman. As she married and was widowed she amassed a large household and was well-off. When she died, in London, she was still acknowledged as 'Queen of Mann'.
Or Somerled's wife, who is never referred to in the Chronicles of Man by name even though the writer thought her the cause of all the problems of the kingdom. He decries her for urging her sons to kill their uncle for abandoning his wife, her sister, in favour of a better dynastic marriage. We know her sister's name - so it is as if the author of the Chronicles chose not to record the queen's name as a form of punishment.
In a conversation with D-d we discussed the end slices of cakes baked in a loaf tin - like fruit loaf, gingerbread, lemon drizzle and so on. She always thought the NYM was a bit mean because when it got down to the end of such a cake he always kept the last proper slice and gave her the crust, and in our family the crust is the least desirable bit. Recently, almost 9 years after they first became a couple, she discovered that, in his family, the crust is regarded as the best bit of the cake - and all these years, rather than being a bit mean, he was giving her what he thought of as the choicest portion :)
As she said, this means that, now, they can spend the rest of their lives each getting what they think of as the best bit!
And, finally, a few garden pictures -
And TT starts on Monday - I have at least 6 cakes already in the freezer, and also a lot of bags of grated, and weighed, carrot for making carrot cake. The weather doesn't look terribly promising, but hopefully I will get the odd hour or two to sit out in the garden and just be.