Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2022 by uppyalf
Maybe It’s Just Love
Justin Hayward
Just like you I’m searching Always looking past horizons Not everytime I’m finding What I want to lay my eyes on I’m not always knowing What I like to know But here I am a-sittin’ With our favourite music on the radio Sometimes I smile at what I’m touching Just because it’s there for me to feel You know it doesn’t really matter If it’s in my dreams Or really real I’m not always getting what I like to get But if I keep on moving that’s enough to get me set ’cause everybody’s wearing out their tongues just talking I think they got nothing much better to do They say you’re looking for love and all Somebody strong and dark and tall Or maybe it’s just love that’s a-lookin’ for you Just like you I’m searching Always looking past horizons Not everytime I’m finding What I wish to lay my eyes on I’m not always knowing What I like to know But here I am a-sittin’ With our favourite music on the radio ’cause everybody’s wearing out their tongues just talking I think they got nothing much better to do They say you’re looking for love and all Somebody strong and dark and tall But maybe it’s just love that’s a-lookin’ for you ’cause everybody’s wearing out their tongues just talking I think they got nothing much better to do They say you’re looking for love and all Somebody strong and dark and tall But maybe it’s just love that’s a-lookin’ for you Maybe it’s just love that’s a-lookin’ for you Oh maybe it’s just love that’s a-lookin’ for you
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2022 by uppyalf
On driving past a mirror
Driving past a mirror today You know the sort Round convexed often muddied Often coated with grime I drive past and I always Try if I can to see my car I check to see if it’s me Strange I know But often it proves to me In a silly way That I’m still here
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2022 by uppyalf
2/2/22
Wootton, then called Wudu Tun – “Estate in the Woods”. The original building was probably of wood and thatch but a stone building was soon built to replace it and survived the probable depredations of the Vikings. We don’t know the date of the Saxon tower base that forms part of the current church.
By the time of the Conquest, Wootton was held by Thegn Wagen, a close confidant of Earl Leofric of Mercia (whose wife we know as Lady Godiva) and very much a part of the late Anglo-Saxon aristocracy. We don’t know what
became of him – he may even have died at Hastings – but he was supplanted by the Norman Robert of Tosny, Earl of Stafford who promptly gave the abbey to a Benedictine abbey at Conches in Normandy from whence the family came.
Tomb of Francis Smith (1522-1605). He was Lord of the adjoining Wootton Manor and a staunch Roman Catholic at a time when this could be a lifespan-threatening preoccupation! Like many of his co-religionists, he managed to duck and dive his way through the dangers of the Reformation to the extent that, as the Church Guide wryly observes, he now monopolises the squint from the eastern chapel through to the high altar. The poor man is paying for his hubris with the most uncomfortable posture imaginable!
John Harewell (1365-1428). The dog under his feet, by the way, tells us that John died a natural death and not in battle. Harewell was to inherit Wootton Wawen only after the death of his mother (who was still living in 1389), and his early connexions were all with Somerset, where his uncle, John, was bishop of Bath and Wells (1366-86).
It was no doubt Bishop Harewell (a trusted counsellor of the Black Prince and member of the Council appointed in 1378 to assist Richard II) who arranged his first marriage, to the daughter of one of the tenants on the episcopal estates, Sir John Weyland. In 1385 Weyland settled on the young couple the Somerset manor of Loxton, to hold for term of their lives.
Elizabeth did not long survive, but after the deaths of her father and brother the heir to the Weyland estates (some nine manors in Somerset, Suffolk, Norfolk and Dorset) was her daughter, Joan Harewell, who in about 1412 was to marry John Stretch of Ashe, Devon.
Harewell was named as an executor of his uncle the bishop’s will in June 1386 and received from him a bequest of £20. Despite the bishop’s death he continued to have interests in Somerset, where besides Loxton he owned an inn at Wells, and both his second and third marriages were to local women. His most profitable marriage was to Margery, one of four daughters of the wealthy Bristol merchant Thomas Beaupyne.
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