Tuesday, December 11, 2007
From MInster in Thanet...
...comes a lovely Christmas newsletter from the dear nuns at St Mildred's Priory. I stayed there not long ago while on a speaking engagement at nearby Ramsgate, and the nuns made me so welcome. It's a Saxon priory, restored for monastic use just 70 years ago with nuns from Germany. Reachable by train from London, with the most lovely gardens, and a warm welcome at the guesthouse - the sisters have even published their own recipe book, full of the good things they serve to visitors - and a dear little chapel, and such an interesting history...Viking invaders...peacful times under King Canute...salt works on ther marshes...destruction under Henry VIII...the 20th century and sisters fleeing from the Nazis in Germany...
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Joanna you know so much history..wonderful..
No, Joanna doesn't really know much history. She simply copies out bits from guidebooks and other easily accessible sources. It's called scribbling.
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