Showing posts with label Winchester. Show all posts
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Sunday, 7 December 2008

Hammond's Passage

What does "committing a nuisance" entail?

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

The dangers of drinking small beer when hot

Books

In the shadow of the cathedral, behind the Deanery we found a book exchange.    

It was late on a Sunday afternoon, two old gentlemen were shuffling their way through the boxes of books stacked in a small arched porch.  Old travel guides, Sidney Sheldon novels, paperback Shakespeare, a guide to the art of the Hermitage from 1976.  Printed signs indicated a recommended donation, which you dropped in through a slot in a door.  Only good intentions and your conscience to keep you honest. 

I traded a small contribution for an old "A New History of England".