Yes ... it is!
Your turn bree.
I'm having trouble getting images to post. Can someone else take the next turn?
bree wrote:Piffka wrote:It was called Shakespeare's Mother's Home for a long time, but now it is known that it wasn't. I guess you probably know that.
Nope -- I had never heard that.
Bree -- my apologies. I had it backwards. Glebe Farm was Mary Arden's home... not the place called "Mary Arden House". <rolling eyes> Just wanted to get this straight and off my chest.
Quote:Mary Arden's House, the attraction that drew millions of Shakespeare fans from across the globe, is not really Arden's house at all. Dr. Nat Alcock, a Warwickshire historian, has discovered deeds and church records proving Shakespeare's mother actually grew up on Glebe Farm, a property situated a short distance from the cottage traditionally recognized as being the childhood home of Mary Arden.
Good work, btw, with the Portand Maine Observatory. Carry on.
bree wrote:I'm having trouble getting images to post. Can someone else take the next turn?
Bree -- I've noticed that a2k only wants to accept images from the DLX domain if they have very short names. If you can rename them, they'll probably show.
OK, I'll try again.
What's the name of this building and where is it?
I think it's a photograph, although I can see how it has a certain non-naturalistic quality.
Not the USA.
Not the UK (but geographically close).
Not Osborne House.
Do I own it? It looks familiar.
Ireland? Dublin perchance?
Lord Ellpus wrote:Do I own it? It looks familiar.
If so, that would account for the presence of those two girls in silk kimonos in the south-facing windows ...
Just saw your previous post, Lord Ell.
Yes to Ireland, no to Dublin.
I do apologise....I've just been watching the second half of the Liverpool/Chelsea Match....Liverpool are through to the final of the Champions League !!
HOORAH!
Now, where was I.........oh yes.
County Cork?
Go, Liverpool!
Not County Cork.
I'll be leaving the office in a few minutes, and I'll be out this evening, so I probably won't be back online until tomorrow morning (that's 16 or so hours from now). Feel free to put this aside while I'm gone. If you want a great big hint to work on in the meantime, try this:
The house is mentioned by name in a poem by an Irish poet who was a friend of the family that owned the house. The title of the poem includes the names of the two girls in the silk kimonos I mentioned earlier.
Lord Ellpus wrote:I do apologise....I've just been watching the second half of the Liverpool/Chelsea Match....Liverpool are through to the final of the Champions League !!
Thanks to Saint Liver Bird, I might say! (Saw the match, too.)
Butler Yeats, by any chance?
It is Lissadell, Co.Sligo (where my father in laws family come from actually).
I am so confident, that I will post a new picture........in a mo.
