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[fideidefenswhore]

However, while there is no doubt that Anne is represented by Mantel in a negative light, a word of caution is required, as her sophisticated narrative technique makes it unadvisable for the reader to rush into conclusions. Indeed, the trilogy’s narrator appears to have full access to Cromwell’s conscience. However, this is nothing but an illusion. Clues are dropped in Bring Up the Bodies: the reader discovers that young Cromwell’s brutal beating, with which Wolf Hall opens and which Cromwell relives while being executed in The Mirror and the Light, is in fact the punishment that he received from his father for having stabbed a boy, resulting in the latter’s death (Mantel, Bring, 86). The narrator does not mention this until this moment, which may be seen to question Cromwell’s memory (O’Connor, “History,” 34) and even the narrator’s reliability. Such issues are visibly addressed in The Mirror and the Light, in which Cromwell is haunted by ghosts—a trademark of Mantel’s “spectral realism.” In fact, Cromwell recurringly dreams of Anne Boleyn’s execution (Mantel, Mirror, 25, 69), which suggests a sense of guilt and casts doubt on the accuracy of Anne’s portrayal.

The Changing Faces of Anne Boleyn: An Analysis of Contemporary Historical Fiction by Philippa Gregory, Hilary Mantel, and Alison Weir, written by JOSÉ IGOR PRIETO-ARRANZ AND PATRICIA BASTIDA-RODRÍGUEZ

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Bbq by the river 🫶🏻

[jgrimtravels]

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[dansnaturepictures]

Ten of my favourite fauna, flora and fungi photos to take in February 2023 and month summary 

The photos are of; Whooper Swan at RSPB Lakenheath Fen, Curlew at RSPB Titchwell in Norfolk, Teal also at Titchwell, Buzzard at Lakeside Country Park in Hampshire, Roe Deer at Lakeside, Muntjac Deer at Holkham in Norfolk, daffodil at Winchester Cathedral, crocuses at Lakeside, snowdrops at Titchwell and scarlet elf cup at Titchwell. 

I have had such a fun and amazing February, and it has been one of my most fantastic second months of the year for birdwatching ever. Headlined by the sensational trip to Norfolk where I saw so many species for the first time this year, ever and generally; I have seen so many species this month with so many incredible ones. It has been joyful and thrilling experience after experience for seeing birds, with species seen gearing up for their breeding season too and ones synonymous with spring seen. I am ending the month with my bird year list again in an extremely pleasing place compared to my previous years due to getting the second highest amount of year ticks I’ve ever got in a February. What a start to the year I’ve had. Hen Harrier, Grey Partridge, Whooper Swan and Skylark proved consistent star birds of my month with them seen and/or heard multiple times, with my first ever Long-eared Owl and Twite, Long-billed Dowitcher, Merlin, Fieldfare, Yellowhammer, Shore lark a star bird for a second month running, Snow Bunting, Goshawk in a solid month for seeing raptors and Black-necked Grebe other highlights. The visit of a male Sparrowhawk to the roof visible from my room headlined another good month of enjoying birds from home. 

It was a brilliant month of mammals mostly thanks to deers and hares with lots of Brown Hares seen and especially the mesmerizing Muntjac experience seeing so many in Norfolk. It was good to see bees on unseasonably warm days this month, and spiders from home well. It was an exciting floral month with daffodils, snowdrops and crocuses and others emerging bringing that promise of spring, and there were some nice fungi moments too. A slight variation on my usual post bringing together an amount of my favourite pictures taken that month corresponding to the number of the month in that I’m posting twenty of my favourites from February, my next post has ten of my favourite landscape photos from the month. 

[aryburn-trains]

Norfolk & Western's diesel-era passenger service was quite utilitarian in appearance when compared to its beautifully streamlined 4-8-4's and 4-8-2's. Here, GP9's have the "Pocahontas" (featuring head-end equipment, a diner-lounge, reclining-seat coaches, and 10-6 sleeper) near Suffolk, Virginia in September of 1969. Bob Yanosey photo.

[cockringhoratio]

i love these ‘how do you say x’ polls where people are like wtf is wrong w u op bc as an ex coastal virginia native it really is like that sorry. youve absolutely been saying norfolk wrong. richmond is richmin. i think poquoson is the closest we get to on the tin pronunciation.

[bikepackinguk]

Day Six

It's been another day at it!

Spent last night in the bivvy sheltering from the wind behind some haybales near Southwold and up early to get started.

Had a bit of a trek around some back country roads to get around the worst of the A12 but that was no hardship as the countryside here is just lovely to ride through, with plenty of wildlife and birdsong to brighten the morning.

Once past Kessingland it was much easier going with plenty of traffic-free cycle routes, and a handy Morrisons to restock some supplies and top up on water.

Then on into Lowestoft! Another bit of childhood memories here, and a wonderful and impromptu tune up of some of the bike from the awesome folk at Dunx Cycles, who I will very happily shout the praises of!

A major milestone of the journey here is stopping off at Ness Point in Lowestoft - the most Easternly extreme point of Britain! I'll be the other side of John O' Groats before seeing the next one, but one down!

After that is a nice ride up the coastline full of sea spray and across the River Yare into the famed seaside town of Great Yarmouth, in the famously normal county of Norfolk.

A spot of brunch had there, before continuing up NCN route 30 and riding across the Norfolk Broads, which are very pretty to behold, as well as stopping off at Sea Palling to go and touch the sea :)

The pegs have been doing ok so have carried on around after that into the Norfolk Coast region, with some more lovely views and very high winds!

With about 12 hours on-off riding today I think that's a job well done and time to find a tree to rest my head under!

[dontdenymeshakespeare]

The Waiting Game

Tudor England is one of my great loves. It’s one of my favourite time periods to read about and engross myself in. Since I’ve been a fan for so long, the fact that historians are now pulling out the lesser known stories is something I find thrilling and I feel like there’s a whole new world out there for me to explore. Catherine of Aragon – and Anna of Kleve – had to learn English, Anne Boleyn…

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[dean-boese-universe]

Well this week we go back and meet a woman who revolted against the Romans around the time of Jesus.  Boudicca has become a legendary figure but we do our level best to track down what she was really like.  We dig into this enduring historical figure who has become an enduring figure of empowerment as well,  We discuss what we could discover of her early life, how she rose to power among the Iceni people and how she led a revolt that came darn close to pushing the Romans out of Britain entirely.  Plus Arthur introduces us to Thunderstorm, her new cat in her corner as we go all girl power in this historic episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

[fideidefenswhore]

When Henry [VIII] wanted to be aggressive or threatening, he chose either Norfolk or Suffolk to lead the delegation; when he wished to be more conciliatory or agreeable, he chose either Cromwell or Boleyn.

The Life & Career of Thomas Boleyn, Lauren Mackay

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Thetford - Norfolk

[dansnaturepictures]

Round up of our long weekend in Norfolk 17th-19th February 2023

I used two days of leave either side of this weekend and we headed to Norfolk for a couple of nights; a wild flat land of Marsh Harriers, pretty churches and windmills, and euphoric birding thrills. The three days visiting various reserves and spots did not disappoint; on it we saw so much getting eight bird year ticks to take my year list to 145 well ahead of where any of my others were on this date in past years which is fantastic, two of them life ticks (both seen on Friday, the first time I’ve seen more than one new bird in a day for five years and all but one of my five visits to Norfolk at different times of year since 2013 has produced at least one bird life tick for me and on the one that didn’t we saw something new in Suffolk before getting there which underlines the quality of this part of the world for birdwatching), seeing marvellous mammals, beautiful views in great weather and oh so many Red Kites, Lapwings and Wigeons among many other birds the latter two a real splendid taste of winter.

It started with a bang on Friday as we called into the Cley Spy shop in Glandford where the famous Long-eared Owl seen there this winter had been sighted. It was an honour to get stunning views of this mesmerising bird on our first stop of the time away, what a phenomenal species. It was the first I’ve ever seen notching me up to five owl species seen in my life I’ve seen three this year now and this one I had wanted to see for years. What a great job the Cley Spy team are doing letting people see it in return for donations to the Oriental Bird Club and making it so accessible to all. Then it was onto Blakeney where as hoped we saw some Twite, also my first ever a charming little bird I was buzzing to see. My first Skylark of the year, wonderful Kestrel and Marsh Harrier views and Wigeon and Lapwing were other highlights here.

The Cley Spy Long-eared Owl

Holkham was the first port of call of Saturday with what was up until us seeing the one at Milford in Hampshire late last month the main target of the trip in mind, Shore lark. We were spoiled to see five or six, what an honour to watch this flamboyant coloured adorable bird picking about in the fenced off area. It was lark delight with Skylark seen here too, perhaps the first time I’ve seen two lark species in a day and we were looking at both at once at one point. Snow Bunting became a main Holkham target after seeing Hampshire’s Shore lark and I was over the moon that we spotted one or two at Holkham, a powerful moment watching one flying and settle down whilst watching the Shore larks another year tick and a crucial one being a bird I love so much. Amazing views of Grey Partridge and Red Kite were also great to see at Holkham. Cley was the next stop on Saturday where we got astonishing views of the striking and graceful Long-billed Dowitcher. Another golden bird of the trip getting our best ever view of the species only the fourth time we’ve ever seen one and third individual bird we’ve ever seen. There was also an exhilarating surprise moment when from the cafe at the centre when having a cup of tea we saw the Whooper Swan, one we don’t see too often and one I love seeing a massive year tick. Ruff, great views of Spoonbill and Marsh Harrier were nice to see at Cley too.

One of the Holkham Shore larks 

After checking out of the hotel yesterday before heading home visits to RSPB reserves Titchwell and Lakenheath Fen (on the border with Suffolk) produced more swashbuckling moments of natural splendour. My first Bar-tailed Godwits of the year a very useful one to pick up, Sanderlings, Goldeneye, Shoveler, Teal, Avocet, Lapwings, Golden Plovers, Spoonbill, a lovely group of Linnets, Treecreeper and a raptor fest of acrobatic Red Kites and multiple majestic Marsh Harriers were key Titchwell sightings. The last year tick of the trip awaited at Lakenheath Fen as despite it looking like they might have flown off we managed to see the three Bean Geese that had been here flying over. Such a great moment, only the second I’ve ever seen and a key bird seen this year so far. Here also we got breathtaking views of and also possibly heard a lone angelic Whooper Swan on the Little Ouse River joining two Mute Swans which was nice to see and for comparison later on. A stunning intimate experience. Lots of Gadwalls, Great White Egret, Little Egret and raucous Rooks and Jackdaws flying to roost I believe completed the highlights here.

Whooper Swan at Lakenheath Fen

Away from birds it was a wonderful weekend of mammals. This mostly down to two species, Muntjac Deer and Brown Hare. The Muntjacs were an absolute revelation of the trip, we saw so many. Many more than we’d ever seen before and getting better views than we ever had of these elusive mammals that we had seen a handful of times before. From the quirky image of seeing one cross a road and go into someone’s hedge on day one our first of the year, to the pinnacle seeing four of these petite, charming and exotic deers at Holkham in fields which was amazing it was an honour to see them. We saw some in the woods and on the washlands at Lakenheath Fen seeing them so much on journeys across the days too. Getting towards their amorous time of year we got cracking views of the Hares a quintessential part of this landscape.  

One of the Muntjac Deers at Holkham 

In the way of flora and fungi snowdrop covered verges and the woods at Titchwell were a sight to behold with daffodils and crocuses seen from the car too and red deadnettle I saw a lot too. At Titchwell also in the woods we enjoyed some succulent looking ruby red scarlet elf cups too one of the mushrooms I like most. In terms of insects a few flowers being out and the sunny and quite warm weather allowed my recent pleasing run of seeing bees to continue whilst away. It was a weekend of taking in brilliant landscapes too in lots of sunny weather with the reedbeds, marshes, river, shiny beaches, sand dunes, fields and trees looking so lovely. There were nice dramatic sky scenes too and fantastic scenes towards and at sunset. Something photographically I was looking forward to having never been to Norfolk in February (April the first time we went the closest to this time of year), was how that gorgeous winter light would look in the mostly flat landscape and it did look so stunning and special. Ten years on from us first ever visiting to Norfolk I am happy we managed to do this trip, and I felt sharply why I love this extraordinary and wild place. It was good to get away generally and have some great relaxation. 

Scarlet elf cup at Titchwell

View at Blakeney

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