#The Harefield Chase

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The Harefield Chase

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I’ll be back in my favourite place to work again today - I have a small balcony which looks out over the canal, canal boats and trees (and a few cars, vans, office building but I blinker those out!). It is slightly recessed and has a pitched roof so it s sheltered and shaded until the sun comes round at about 4pm and it then sometimes gets a little too hot to work so that tells me if I’ve worked well it’s time to stop for the day. It’s generally very tranquil and peaceful apart from the sound of the birds. Mostly I hear The coots paddling about, sounding like bicycle hooters and the gaggles from the geese flying over or being chased up river by the very protective male swan. He has a way of low flying / almost running along on top of the water, the flapping sound of his wings spread wide, giving him speed, echoes around the canal until the flying goose, duck or canoeist takes off fast in the direction away from his signets. . I’m working on editing headshots and brand style photography today. I love to tell the story in pictures of the person behind their business. . . . . . . . #productphotographer #headshotphotographerlondon #businessbrandingphotographer #businessbrand #hertfordshirephotographer #londonphotographers #weddingphotographerlondon #wfhmlife #home #herts #harefield #harefieldphotographer #rickmansworth #uxbridgephotographer #denhamvillage #southbucks #buckinghamshireweddingphotographer #buckinghamshirephotographer #chalfontstpeter #chalfontstgiles #chalfonts #weddingphotographeruk #weddingphotographerlondon #weddingphotographerbucks #weddingphotographerberkshire #berkshireweddingphotographer #berkshireweddingphotography #linkedinprofile (at Josephine Gray Photography) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKovW-hUOe/?igshid=16p58rtwvv2r3

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There is no record of her hunting before 1560. Thereafter she hunted regularly. Even in her last summer, during a small progress at Harefield in Buckinghamshire in August 1602, ‘the Queen hunteth every second or third day, for themost part on horseback, and showeth little decay in ability’. Her hunting is mentioned in practically all biographies, accounts of progresses or architectural studies of her reign - but only in passing, presumably because hunting has not been considered a subject worthy of academic consideration. As a result, the significance of Dudley’s phrase 'is now become’ and the implication that hunting was something novel in 1560 has been overlooked. It was a diversion of some contemporary controversy and for women it had novel aspects. It was also a curious choice for a self-consciously bookish queen. (..)  Further evidence of Elizabeth’s hunting will undoubtedly emerge. But the wider questions are clearly established. Leicester’s advocacy of exercise suggests that hunting at force was her initial practice. With all due caution given the sources, Elizabeth’s increased hunting at the stand after 1570 was a product of age, for unlike Henry VIII she did not suffer a riding accident worthy of note. But there was also the countervailing influence of Burghley, who undoubtedly shared the residual Edwardian hostility to hunting and also (I suspect) resented Leicester’s influence on the studious adolescent he had met in the 1540s. Worried by the potential dangers of hunting, he may have encouraged her to hunt at the stand. (..)  The conclusion must be that hunting was a matter of personal taste, and in Elizabeth’s case her curious emotional relationship with Leicester was the key influence. Hunting was not the only diversion they shared; jousting and the theatre were equally important. Royal patronage of all three was on the verge of extinction when Elizabeth came to the throne and her revival is good example of the influence of royal tastes - particularly in diversions - on court life.

SIMON ADAMS (2013) ‘The Queenes Majestie ... is now become a great huntress’: Elizabeth I and the Chase, The Court Historian, 18:2, 143-164, DOI: 10.1179/cou.2013.18.2.002

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'Once a Card' - Woking fans react as Slough Town sign Paul Hodges

'Once a Card' - Woking fans react as Slough Town sign Paul Hodges #nonleague

Slough Town’s chase for promotion from the Vanarama National League South this season has been given a boost with the addition of attacker Paul Hodges.

The 26-year-old joins from National League Woking where he had helped the Cards to promotion last season back to the top tier of non league football.

Writing on the Slough Town FC website, joint Rebels boss Jon Underwood said: “He is an…