Scouring white horses
Apr 26, 2013 23:29:19 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 23:29:19 GMT -5
Good morning to you all! 'The Daily Telegraph' leads this weekend with some editorial comment on scouring white horses: why we're proud to be backing the 2013 English Heritage Angel Awards, for craftsmen and volunteer conservationists. After the success of 'Tom Brown’s School Days', Thomas Hughes wrote a deeply eccentric second novel, 'The Scouring of the White Horse', which explored the history and class-system of England while describing the renovation of the chalk-cut horse on the hill at Uffington (in Berkshire then, but now, as some readers have this week lamented, administratively transferred to Oxfordshire). The ceremonial restoration of the white horse was accompanied by traditional games: running, climbing the greasy pole, wrestling and backsword-fighting. For the record, kleines c should report that he is undisputed greasy pole champion. 'The Telegraph' transmits thus:
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I propose some toast: to Sydney Grew, 'The Third Programme' and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c, Chelsea and the legendary bb (Saturday morning breakfast coffee)!
Somerset House - Fernandez & Wells
" ... At the Olympic Games last year, visitors to the yachting events off Dorset could see a giant chalk figure of quite a different kind on the hills at Osmington. This 320ft outline of George III on horseback was cut in the turf patriotically in 1809. It had been unintentionally smudged by a team led by television’s Anneka Rice in 1989. But in 2010 the Osmington White Horse was scoured as carefully as even Thomas Hughes could wish. It has now been nominated as a candidate for the 2013 English Heritage Angel Awards, for craftsmen and volunteer conservationists. Lord Lloyd-Webber helps sponsor the awards, detailed in our Weekend section today, which the Telegraph is backing for the third year. As Thomas Hughes saw, in his romantic way, restoring something left by a shared history brings people together. Backswords are optional."
I propose some toast: to Sydney Grew, 'The Third Programme' and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c, Chelsea and the legendary bb (Saturday morning breakfast coffee)!
Somerset House - Fernandez & Wells
