Freshwater Bay from Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight, England. Commentary.
Freshwater Bay is a classic site where the sea erodes the
Cretaceous chalk forming dramatic
coves, cliffs, caves, and stacks.
Azure skies and blinding white rock
create turquoise seas with an emerald green back-cloth.
Truly photogenic, to the nth. degree.
Clevedon Court, Somerset Clevedon Court was built in 1320 by the de Clyvedon family and contains many later additions. The 14th-century manor house nestled between Bristol and the North Somerset coast with rich literary connections to Tennyson and Thackeray.
The property boasts an 18th-century terraced garden, described by Gertrude Jekyll as ‘one of the noblest ranges of terraced walls in England’. The house has been in the care of the National Trust since 1961.
_D609532 Isle of Wight, August 2024. My brother and the priest of our village in France descending from Tennyson Cross to Freshwater Bay. You can see the start of the Military Road and, on the left, the path that runs along the ridge of Afton Down nicknamed "Desolation Hill" during the island's fab 1970 festival.
King of the perch How to identify
Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown stripes underneath. Sparrowhawks have bright yellow or orangey eyes, yellow legs and talons. Females are larger than males, as with all birds of prey.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the greatest size differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (24 in) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days.
The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of least concern by BirdLife International.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
Wesleyan Division C, Row 21, Plots 82 & 84 Plot 82:
Plot 84: Arthur (Tennie) Tennyson Howie – Missionary (ashes)?
In Memoriam
ALFRED TENNYSON'HOWIE
M.B.CH. B.,
1902 – 1936
Link to other side of this grave:
www.flickr.com/photos/discoverwaikumetecemetery/493203865...
La mia strada Sono una parte di tutto ciò che ho trovato sulla mia strada.
(Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Tealby, Lincolnshire The Parish Church of All Saints
The village of Tealby is situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire olds a few miles east from the town of Market Rasen.
The parish church of All Saints is built of local orange iron stone and dates back to the 12th century, the church holds memorials to the Tennyson d'Eyncourt family of the nearby now lost Bayons Manor.
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Henry Rogers, Josh Randle, Virginia Coyne, Robin Goldman, Dan Meyers, Olivia Igbokwe, Arun Gupta, Felipe Milon, Dede Lea, Tammy Haddad, Maryam Mujica, Justin Oswald, Lara Tennyson, and Rachel Appleton Washington AI Network Founder and CEO Tammy Haddad interviews FBI Chief of Staff Jonathan Lenzner and Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran live from FBI Headquarters in downtown Washington, DC on August 27th, 2024.
Henry Rogers, Josh Randle, Virginia Coyne, Robin Goldman, Dan Meyers, Olivia Igbokwe, Arun Gupta, Felipe Milon, Dede Lea, Tammy Haddad, Maryam Mujica, Justin Oswald, Lara Tennyson, and Rachel Appleton Washington AI Network Founder and CEO Tammy Haddad interviews FBI Chief of Staff Jonathan Lenzner and Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran live from FBI Headquarters in downtown Washington, DC on August 27th, 2024.
Lara Tennyson and Maryam Mujica Washington AI Network Founder and CEO Tammy Haddad interviews FBI Chief of Staff Jonathan Lenzner and Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran live from FBI Headquarters in downtown Washington, DC on August 27th, 2024.
Loved And Lost 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
BADASS STORM – BYE BYE DRONE... see the dramatic video of losing my drone in the storm:
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Sir Henry Irving Vintage British postcard. Rotary Photo Co., London.
Sir Henry Irving (1838–1905) was an English stage actor in the Victorian era. He was known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre. Irving established himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre, and was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood.
Henry Irving was born as John Henry Brodribb to a working-class family in Keinton Mandeville, Great-Britain in 1838. His father, Samuel Brodribb, was a travelling salesman and his mother was Mary Brodribb, née Behenna. After seeing Samuel Phelps play Hamlet at Sadlers Wells Theatre in 1949, Irving sought out acting lessons. He attended City Commercial School for two years before going to work in the office of a firm of lawyers at the age of 13. 1855 he had an interview with Samuel Phelps, and a year later joined the stock company at the Theatre Royal, Sunderland. His first part was that of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, in Richelieu. He was billed as Henry Irving, and this name he eventually assumed by royal licence. For 10 years, he went through an arduous training in various stock companies in Scotland and the north of England, acting in more than 500 parts. He gained recognition by degrees, and in 1866 he was engaged by Ruth Herbert as her leading man and sometime stage director at the St. James's Theatre, London, where her first played Doricourt in The Belle's Stratagem. He married Florence O'Callaghan in 1869. A year later he finally made his first conspicuous success as Digby Grant in James Albery's Two Roses, which was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1870 and ran for a very successful 300 nights. Since 1856 Irving had laboured against great odds but his 1871 success in The Bells in London set him apart from all the rest. His personal life took second place to his professional life. On opening night of The Bells, Irving's wife, Florence criticised his profession: "Are you going on making a fool of yourself like this all your life?" (She was then pregnant with their second boy, Laurence.) Irving got out from their carriage at Hyde Park Corner, walked off into the night and chose never to see her again. He maintained a discreet distance from his children as well, but became closer to them as they grew older. His elder son, Harry Brodribb Irving (1870–1919), usually known as H B Irving, became a famous actor and later a theatre manager. His younger son, Laurence Irving (1871–1914), became a dramatist and later drowned, with his wife, in the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Florence Irving never divorced Irving, and claimed herself "Lady Irving" once he had been knighted. Irving never remarried.
In 1871, Henry Irving began his association with the Lyceum Theatre by an engagement under Bateman's management. The fortunes of the house were at a low ebb when the tide was turned by Irving's sudden success as Mathias in The Bells, a version of Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Juif polonais by Leopold Lewis, a property which Irving had found for himself. The play ran for 150 nights, established Irving at the forefront of the British drama, and it would prove a popular vehicle for Irving for the rest of his professional life. He went on to take over the management of the Lyceum Theatre and brought the actress Ellen Terry into partnership with him as Ophelia to his Hamlet, Lady Macbeth to his Macbeth, Portia to his Shylock, Beatrice to his Benedick, etc. Irving might be said to have found his family in his professional company, which included his ardent supporter and manager Bram Stoker and Terry's two illegitimate children, Teddy and Edy. With Bateman, Irving was seen in W. G. Wills' Charles I and Eugene Aram, in Richelieu, and in 1874 in Hamlet. The unconventionality of this last performance, during a run of 200 nights, aroused keen discussion and singled him out as the most interesting English actor of his day. In 1875, again with Bateman, he was seen as the title character in Macbeth; in 1876 as Othello, and as Philip in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary; in 1877 in Richard III; and in The Lyons Mail. It is in this time that he became life-long friends with Bram Stoker, who praised him in his review of Hamlet and thereafter joined Irving as the manager for the company. Stoker was inspired by Irving for his 1897 novel Dracula. In 1878, Irving entered into a partnership with the actress Ellen Terry and re-opened the Lyceum under his own management. With Terry as Ophelia and Portia, he revived Hamlet and produced The Merchant of Venice (1879). His Shylock was as much discussed as his Hamlet had been, the dignity with which he invested the vengeful Jewish merchant marking a departure from the traditional interpretation of the role. Much Ado about Nothing (1882) was followed by Twelfth Night (1884); an adaptation of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield by W. G. Wills (1885); Faust (1886); Macbeth (1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan; The Dead Heart, by Watts Phillips (1889); Ravenswood by Herman, and Merivales' dramatic version of Scott's Bride of Lammermoor (1890). Portrayals in 1892 of the characters of Wolsey in Henry VIII and of the title character in King Lear were followed in 1893 by a performance of Becket in Tennyson's play of the same name. During these years, too, Irving, with the whole Lyceum company, paid several successful visits to the United States, which were repeated in succeeding years. As Terry grew older, there seemed to be less opportunities for her in his company, and that was one of the reasons why she eventually left, moving on into less steady but nonetheless beloved work on the stage, including solo performances of Shakespeare's women.
The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Henry Irving's term as sole manager were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo (1894); J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur (1895); Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, (1896); Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene (1897); and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898. In 1898 Irving was Rede Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. The new regime at the Lyceum was signalled by the production of Sardou's Robespierre in 1899, in which Irving reappeared after a serious illness, and in 1901 by an elaborate revival of Coriolanus. Irving's only subsequent production in London was as Sardou's Dante (1903) at the Drury Lane. Irving died shortly after suffering a stroke during a performance while on tour in Bradford in 1905, aged 67. Both on and off the stage, Irving always maintained a high ideal of his profession, and in 1895 he received a knighthood, the first ever accorded an actor. He was also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Dublin, Cambridge, and Glasgow. His acting divided critics; opinions differed as to the extent to which his mannerisms of voice and deportment interfered with or assisted the expression of his ideas.
Sources: Henry Irving.co, and Wikipedia.
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Landing on the side How to identify
Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown stripes underneath. Sparrowhawks have bright yellow or orangey eyes, yellow legs and talons. Females are larger than males, as with all birds of prey.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the greatest size differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (24 in) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days.
The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of least concern by BirdLife International.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
Clevedon Court, Somerset Clevedon Court was built in 1320 by the de Clyvedon family and contains many later additions. The 14th-century manor house nestled between Bristol and the North Somerset coast with rich literary connections to Tennyson and Thackeray.
The property boasts an 18th-century terraced garden, described by Gertrude Jekyll as ‘one of the noblest ranges of terraced walls in England’. The house has been in the care of the National Trust since 1961.
Looking across Freshwater Bay from Tennyson Down to St. Catherine's Point, the most southerly point of the Isle of Wight, England. Commentary.
What a wonderful contrast between the gleaming white chalk cliffs of Tennyson Down and the azure summer seas of the English Channel.
Named after the novelist and poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, this was an area he liked, walked in and sometimes lived in.
When here, he stayed at nearby Farringford House.
St. Catherine’s Point, on the horizon, is the southernmost point of the Isle of Wight.
It suffered the same problem as Beachy Head.
The original lighthouse, on top of the cliff, that gave light,
by a tended, controlled, open fire was too often hidden in mist.
Therefore, a new lighthouse had to be built at sea-level.
It was an invigorating and scenic six-mile walk from Freshwater Bay to The Needles and back.
The scenery was majestic and vivid in green, white and blue.
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Freshwater Bay to Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight, England. Commentary.
Famed for the walks of Tennyson
when he lived in nearby Farringdon House,
the former Victorian Poet Laureate has a cross memorial
on the rounded cliff, second from
the left in this panorama of the bay.
These chalk cliffs are, of course, an iconic
symbol of England’s Channel coastline,
running for 150 miles, or so,
from Beachy Head to Weymouth.
It is submarine in the English Channel
and then re-appears in Old Harry’s
Rocks and the Purbeck Hills, westwards.
Freshwater Bay is a classic site where the sea erodes the
Cretaceous chalk forming dramatic
coves, cliffs, caves, and stacks.
Azure skies and blinding white rock
create turquoise seas with an emerald green back-cloth.
Truly photogenic, to the nth. degree.
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