Tag / Grasmere

Holiday Highlights

Since visiting Bruges in April we have had two more trips away. In May we had two nights in Stratford-upon-Avon followed by two nights in the Cotswolds and we have just returned from a week in the Lake District. The trip to Stratford had been long postponed. For several years we made a habit of going up once a year to see a Shakespeare play and only stopped because of the refurbishment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Then it took us until this year to start going again. In January we looked at our diary and the performances that were on and opted for Antony...

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Wild West Wordsworth

Most people associate the Lake Poets with, well, the Lakes, of course. The English Lake District, that is. Ask them where Wordsworth lived and they’ll tell you: in Grasmere. Dove Cottage, Rydal Mount. If they’re officionadoes they’ll even mention Allen Bank, only recently restored to the National Trust and once again open to visitors. The Somerset connection is often forgotten. The odd few will know of Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, but people rarely talk of nearby Alfoxden Park (variously spelled Alfoxdon and Alfoxton). Yet this was the home...

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Loving "The Proof of Love"

Book Review "The Proof of Love" by Catherine Hall

  I bought this book in Grasmere, in the Gift Shop attached to the Wordsworth museum. I had never heard of the author, but I was attracted by the blurb on the back and the first few lines drew me in. This book is an exploration of love. Told mainly from the perspective of Spencer Little, a young man we know very little about, it examines the difference between infatuation and desire and true lasting love, the kind that inspires loyalty and trust. As the book progresses we learn...

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The Players do Winslow

Review of Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy” performed by the Grasmere Players.

 

Every year when we go up to Grasmere we try to fit in a performance by The Grasmere Players. The expertise and professionalism of the troupe never ceases to amaze us. Despite the limitations of a village hall, the set is always excellent and the costume design well researched and executed. The standard...

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