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Advantages: Lots of history, plenty to see and do Disadvantages: Not everyones choice of a day out
The small Derbyshire village of Eyam is most famous for its association with the bubonic plague in the 17th century. The plague was brought here from London in 1666 via infected cloth and within just a few weeks over half of the population of Eyam had died. Many people are drawn here by this moving story and those that know the story well will know that that the Church of StLawrence that stands in the centre of this pretty village is paramount in the story.
When the plague struck in 1666 the Church had already been standing for almost five centuries. However in those days it was dedicated to St Helen and was not renamed until around 1900. The Church that we see today almost certainly stands on an ancient Saxon worship site and it thought that the stone foundations of this Church are probably of Saxon origin.
In 1868 this Church ...
Advantages: Great story, Cajuns Disadvantages: Not one to watch over and over
Southern Comfort is not just the name of the most effeminate of whiskeys (for true men like their?s burning and horrible tasting) it?s also a 1981 film by Walter Hill director of The Warriors.
The film follows a small squad of Louisiana National Guard on a training exercise through the Louisiana swamp lands - the bayou. It?s a friendly crew of men all casual about their duty and not taking the exercise completely seriously. The cool guy of the team, Spencer (played by Keith Carradine), has arranged for some prostitutes to meet them at the end of the trail so they?re all keen to get it over with.
Things progress pretty normally until their commander, Poole, seems to have got them lost. They?re at the edge of deep lake/river/big water thing with no way across. Luckily, they spot some boats beside a poachers den. The allure of some ...
Advantages: Readable, accessible literature Disadvantages: Filial relationship with mother reads rather strangely 90 years on
D H Lawrence never bettered this novel , largely based on his own youth and childhood in Eastwood, near Nottingham.
Lawrence was the product of a working-class mining family and his rise to prominence as an author highly unusual for someone of his background.
Later on, he veered towards pomposity and snobbishness in his views on ordinary people but this work is a lovingly written tribute to his past.
Paul Morel, the protagonist, is of course based on Lawrence himself and the cloying relationship with Mrs Morel also based on Lawrence's own rather obsessive relationship with his mother.
He always used real-life figures in his books and "Miriam" is based on his first love Jessie Chambers. Worldly Clara, who seduced him , also an alter ego for a married woman he took up with as a youth.
Lawrence ...
