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Thanks for the pleasant post this morning, although I could have done with a couple of warning symbols for the chuckle moments. Mention of the council revering E.Nesbit so much that they knocked down her house and the deadly fight of the robins, made me choke on my builders and biscuits!
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There is a Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens in North Kensington. Slightly different spelling but a very pleasant garden indeed. Used to work nearby and eat my lunch there
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Jo W: like the grammar police who will rail against the use of the word "best"?
I've been to both parks, but I never realised they we Pleasaunces. I would have paid more attention if I had known. |
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Passed the Eltham one on the train almost every day for 30 years but had not visited it until a few years ago. Small but delightful!
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I will be hastening joyfully to Eltham the next time an opportunity presents itself.
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Been to the Maze Hill one but not the Well Hall one (probably because whenever I've used Eltham station I've always walked the other way!). Will have to rectify that.
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Lovely!
(Although I hate those truncated prices...) |
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After being delighted by Well Hall, I made half an effort to get to Maze Hill last year. As you write, nice enough for a local park, but it's Well Hall Pleasaunce that deserves the effort.
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I loved Five Children and It, but having seen the 1991 BBC adaptation at an impressionable age I find it hard to accept a psammead looking like that sculpture.
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I'd only ever come across the word 'Pleasaunce' from owning postcard showing the Lutyens-designed mansion built in Overstrand, North Norfolk which bears the same name.
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There's an area of Edinburgh called "the pleasance" i assume somehow related, though it's no longer a park, being the university sports cnetre.
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Hash Browns have no place in a Full English, being an American import.
The BBC had a documentary years ago with Robins playing a large part and displaying the behaviour you saw. Fighting over territory and mates I think. |
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Great post; history, pretty bits, celebrity and fighting robins - what more could one want!
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Looking at their drinks menu, I was going to suggest Gastro Bar, not Pub. However, then looking at their food- Cafe Bar.
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Lord and Lady Battersea commissioned the house and garden in Overstrand and that connection explains Overstrand Mansions in Battersea I believe.
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Robins are very territorial so the fight may have been to maintain possession of a good territory. Not sure if they were most likely males or could have been females.
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> I can't believe adding hash browns to your Full English now costs 2.
Ouch. At times like these, my dislike of Tim Martin turns out to be a lot less insuperable than I might have previously suspected. |
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The Pleasance in Edinburgh is a street which has given its name to several University facilities. Wikipedia says that 'the name derives from the Scots plesance, meaning a park or garden', so maybe a pleasaunce by another spelling. It does have a small area of not very inspiring garden.
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I've seen it, even helped more skilled folk do it, but have never before heard the word pleaching. Nor inosculation. Thank you
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There is a cut-de-sac called Bellestaines Pleasaunce in Chingford
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Bellestaines Pleasaunce Chingford E4 was a piece of 1950s Borough Council garden-grabbing.
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