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Guest post by Nicola Cornick

Amy Robsart is a woman from the footnotes of history who is most often defined as either a wife (of Robert Dudley, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I) or as a victim (of an unexplained death.) When I came to study and write about Amy, I wanted to find out as much as I could about the woman behind these different identities, which is no easy task. There are however clues…

DT #206, 25 July 2014 (Cross Bay Nightfall)

  Jello says, “Drinking beer In the hot sun. I fought the Law and, uh, I won.”

Name: Cross Bay Nightfall Type: bitter Venue: The Vine Inn, Cumnor

Review/notes: I’m off work for a few days and with the long shifts this week decided to start early.  On the bus at 12:45, I was off it in Besselsleigh for a short runon one of those rare 80°F (26°C) sunny days.  I knew it was going to be a short run…

The Vine, Cumnor, Oxfordshire, Chippy Challenge #79

  [The Chippy Challenge: to eat more fish and chips in 2014; see original post for details.]

Fish: cod Sides: garden peas and shoestring fries Evaluation: “We are out of chunky chips,” she said as soon as I asked if the kitchen was still open.  “Any chips at all?” I asked in reply.  “We’ve got fries.”  So, that’s how I wound up with shoestring potatoes from a freezer bag.  The fish wasn’t great,…

Saturday 1: Saturday - no holiday

Monday 3: Monday - Holyday. To Cumnor, Appleton and Besselsleigh, with R. Thomas.

Thursday 6: Received 4.5 gals. of Ale from Goodwin's.

Friday 7: first number of "Flying Post" appeared.

Saturday 8: paid Mr. Goodwin 1-4-9 for beer from July-December 1858.

Sunday 9: Sunday, Ps.xlvi.10 (text follows)

Unfortunately this doesn't start off very exciting. I promise that there are some interesting bits in a couple of weeks time!

1 - :(

3 - A walk of anything up to 16 miles, according to Google Maps.

6 - 36 pints

7 - Which 'Flying Post' is this? The most famous Flying Post of the time was the 'Exeter Flying Post', but that was established in 1763.