doctor hoo
This looks like someplace Doctor Who (Tom Baker, the best ever) would land the Tardis and he'd walk down to the little village below and all kinds of hijinks would ensue. Remember the picture of The Hollow Hills? Well, this medieval tower is walking distance from the bookstore. It was a fun excursion. You have to keep opening and closing gates because there are sheep and horses everywhere. No knights in shining armor. Later, we were glad to discover that we could ride a bus down, back into town, a scruffy little mini-bus. It would've been a long walk.
This is looking west.
While we were here, a young mother decided to come into the medieval tower so she could breastfeed her baby. I'm not sure if it's because there was a stone bench or she wanted to get more privacy from the picnickers outside or maybe she wanted to get out of the wind but I thought it was pretty funny in that once she stationed herself in here, various people would stroll into the tower to take a look, see her in the relatively confined space, and would Oops, oh good heavens! I'm so sorry to walk in on you! Peoples' reactions were like Candid Camera. Geez people! It's just a mom nursing her baby! It didn't occur to me there could possibly be any expectation of privacy. As I took this picture, my peripheral vision detected that I was a distraction to baby, who kept stopping nursing, to look over, lol. I remember when the boys would do that.
While there might be a few more hang-ups or tutting about public breastfeeding in America in certain places, along with hyper-sexualization of breasts, I'm not sure about the English. They can be quite prim and proper. Maybe it's similar to the U.S., where it simply depends where you're at in the country?
I did have an aunt when I was growing up, who was rather immodest, and the searing vision of her humongous breasts when she was nursing my little cousin in full view, took years to dissipate out of my neural pathways (I was ten years old, I'd just begun ogling National Geographic pictures at the library).
I support laws that protect public nursing. Can you imagine trying to apply some of those codes or rules to certain places in the Middle East? I also think it's important in the workplace to make available, private spaces for nursing mothers to pump breastmilk for later. When they were still very little babies, I took my boys to their mother's office on some days, so they could nurse.
The nursing discourse is a bizarre tangent, isn't it?
I have several other pictures from the tower that have people in them, they're probably better. I don't know how or when to share them, I hate sharing similar pictures too close together. I wanted to put this one first, though. I like timelessness.
doctor hoo
This looks like someplace Doctor Who (Tom Baker, the best ever) would land the Tardis and he'd walk down to the little village below and all kinds of hijinks would ensue. Remember the picture of The Hollow Hills? Well, this medieval tower is walking distance from the bookstore. It was a fun excursion. You have to keep opening and closing gates because there are sheep and horses everywhere. No knights in shining armor. Later, we were glad to discover that we could ride a bus down, back into town, a scruffy little mini-bus. It would've been a long walk.
This is looking west.
While we were here, a young mother decided to come into the medieval tower so she could breastfeed her baby. I'm not sure if it's because there was a stone bench or she wanted to get more privacy from the picnickers outside or maybe she wanted to get out of the wind but I thought it was pretty funny in that once she stationed herself in here, various people would stroll into the tower to take a look, see her in the relatively confined space, and would Oops, oh good heavens! I'm so sorry to walk in on you! Peoples' reactions were like Candid Camera. Geez people! It's just a mom nursing her baby! It didn't occur to me there could possibly be any expectation of privacy. As I took this picture, my peripheral vision detected that I was a distraction to baby, who kept stopping nursing, to look over, lol. I remember when the boys would do that.
While there might be a few more hang-ups or tutting about public breastfeeding in America in certain places, along with hyper-sexualization of breasts, I'm not sure about the English. They can be quite prim and proper. Maybe it's similar to the U.S., where it simply depends where you're at in the country?
I did have an aunt when I was growing up, who was rather immodest, and the searing vision of her humongous breasts when she was nursing my little cousin in full view, took years to dissipate out of my neural pathways (I was ten years old, I'd just begun ogling National Geographic pictures at the library).
I support laws that protect public nursing. Can you imagine trying to apply some of those codes or rules to certain places in the Middle East? I also think it's important in the workplace to make available, private spaces for nursing mothers to pump breastmilk for later. When they were still very little babies, I took my boys to their mother's office on some days, so they could nurse.
The nursing discourse is a bizarre tangent, isn't it?
I have several other pictures from the tower that have people in them, they're probably better. I don't know how or when to share them, I hate sharing similar pictures too close together. I wanted to put this one first, though. I like timelessness.