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Lunch @ "Duck & Waffle".
"linguiça, Manchego, mustard"
This is another sweet-savoury combo that I have not expected myself to enjoy but man, is it GOOD!!!
Take perfectly brownish-sweet dates, wrapped it in bacon and bake it till the bacon wrap is crunchy and the dates soft and gooey: it is akin to the opium of food. So moreish, so addictive, so yummylicious....especially when served with cheese sauce/dip to deliver a creamy third textural layer. Here, the cheese is flavoured with Linguica, the Calabrian chilli seasoned smoke-cured pork sausage as well as mustard.
What more can I ask? Eyes-rollingly delicious!
Just over the Tweed from Norham.
Ladykirk Parish Church dates from the late fifteenth century, and overlooks the banks of the River Tweed. It stands directly opposite Norham Castle, an English stronghold associated with the Bishop of Durham. The church appears to occupy the site of an earlier church, as the fifteenth-century building overlies earlier burials.
The church represents a remarkably complete example of the final development of Gothic architecture in Scotland. It is cruciform on plan, with the east end and the north and south aisles all following a semi-circular, apsidal plan. Several features are evident which are typical of this late stage of Gothic architecture in Scotland: the row of buttresses which line the exterior walls are surmounted by short stone pinnacles, and the building is entered by semi-circular arched doors. The roof consists of stone flags.
There is a tower at the west end, flanked by a circular stair-tower. This was apparently unfinished and not completed until the mid-eighteenth century. Some have linked the famous architect, William Adam, to this work.
It is said that this church was ordered to be built by King James IV. Tradition has it that James, on returning to Scotland following a successful military campaign in northern England in 1496, fell from his horse while fording a swollen River Tweed at Norham Bridge. He believed that he had been saved from drowning by the Virgin Mary, and celebrated his deliverance from death by founding a church which was dedicated to her.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
DATES - Sat 28 July to Sun 12 Aug
Sat 28th July to Sat 6th 2018
Ballycastle - Joe Charlie's Cottage
Sat 6 Aug to Sun 12 Aug
Portaferry - Mary and Gabriel's House Cloughey Road, with Granny Wedge
Monday 30th July 2018
The Dark Hedges
Dates to circa 1955---modernised with a lucite base.
statuary alone is 30" tall (49" shaded as shown)
$650
The retrochoir dates from C13th, built at the instigation of Bishop Godfrey de Lucy, in the Early English style.
Taken in Winchester Cathedral
This building is Winchester's second cathedral, the first (the Old Minster) was founded 642, becoming part of a monastic settlement in 971, and finally demolished after the consecration of the second cathedral. The second cathedral was begun in 1079 at the instigation of the first Norman Bishop, Walkelin, and was consecrated in 1093.
The original crossing tower collapsed in 1107, the replacement still stands. A retrochoir was added by Godfrey de Lucy in 1189; with the west front and nave rebuilt in the mid-fourteenth century. The monastic buildings were demolished following the Reformation.