I was told off last week for writing a “teaser” post by mentioning Alice but not including much about her and nothing about Wonderland but today’s I hope will make up for that.
There are two gardens at Christ Church which have Alice connections. The first is the Cathedral Garden which was originally part of the precinct of St Frideswide’s, the priory shut down by Cardinal Wolsey when he founded his college.
The other is the adjacent Deanery Garden, which was then and remains now the private garden of the Dean, who runs not only the cathedral but is also the head of Christ Church itself.
What were these gardens like? Is either of them Wonderland? Continue reading
Amongst her many other achievements, including being one of the leading codebreakers at Bletchley Park, she also wrote about the most well-known literary figure associated with the college and the city: Alice Liddell, who was the inspiration behind Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass.
The report of the deliberate killing of a swan in my local park got me thinking, not just about the brainless slaughter of an innocent creature presumably for “fun” but about why it was there in the first place.
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