A day's vacation for me. Health still rubbish, but apart from that fine.
I am writing a poem again, the first new one since I broke up with MJ. Not sure how publishable it is... It's about time, returning to Guernsey, and witchcraft. Between June 1550 and October 1661 upwards of 175 people appeared in court accused of sorcery in the Channel Islands. Forty-six were found guilty in Guernsey (36 in Jersey). In Guernsey they used to burn them in St Peter Port near the market. They hung them over a brushwood fire so it's likely that they were dead before they burned, but I dare say there were aberrations. Their ashes were thrown to the wind.
The main source for it is a book I've had for years called These Haunted Islands by Chris Lake. It has the court records as an appendix. Funny there are some years when they had crazes for it. In November 1563, for example, five Guernsey people were burnt at the stake (Francoise Regnouff, Martin Tulouff, Colette Salmon, Graçene Gousset, and Catherine Prays). Earlier, in August of that year someone called Collette Gascoing was punished by being Whipped at the crossroads. One of her ears was nailed to the pillory, cut off and thrown in the sea. She was banished for life.
The Chris Lake book also has a chapter about Salem - which I visited last November - and its connection with the Channel Islands.
Other than witch biz not much to report. Spoke to Janet and Ken and Ken's daughter Caroline and her two kids who were passing through the Twitten in the morning off to London.
Went out for a walk for an hour nosing in a few shops and getting a breath of fish and chip flavoured sea air by the pier. Sunny day today.
Watching Frazier DVDs on TV, which is a wonderful world to slip into. Funny and secure and amazingly well written. Funny to have spoken to Peri Gilpin in Hammersmith earlier this year... A lovely woman.
Moaned to Mum about feeling ill and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
Going through a green tea craze at the moment. It's the new beer.
I am writing a poem again, the first new one since I broke up with MJ. Not sure how publishable it is... It's about time, returning to Guernsey, and witchcraft. Between June 1550 and October 1661 upwards of 175 people appeared in court accused of sorcery in the Channel Islands. Forty-six were found guilty in Guernsey (36 in Jersey). In Guernsey they used to burn them in St Peter Port near the market. They hung them over a brushwood fire so it's likely that they were dead before they burned, but I dare say there were aberrations. Their ashes were thrown to the wind.
The main source for it is a book I've had for years called These Haunted Islands by Chris Lake. It has the court records as an appendix. Funny there are some years when they had crazes for it. In November 1563, for example, five Guernsey people were burnt at the stake (Francoise Regnouff, Martin Tulouff, Colette Salmon, Graçene Gousset, and Catherine Prays). Earlier, in August of that year someone called Collette Gascoing was punished by being Whipped at the crossroads. One of her ears was nailed to the pillory, cut off and thrown in the sea. She was banished for life.
The Chris Lake book also has a chapter about Salem - which I visited last November - and its connection with the Channel Islands.
Other than witch biz not much to report. Spoke to Janet and Ken and Ken's daughter Caroline and her two kids who were passing through the Twitten in the morning off to London.
Went out for a walk for an hour nosing in a few shops and getting a breath of fish and chip flavoured sea air by the pier. Sunny day today.
Watching Frazier DVDs on TV, which is a wonderful world to slip into. Funny and secure and amazingly well written. Funny to have spoken to Peri Gilpin in Hammersmith earlier this year... A lovely woman.
Moaned to Mum about feeling ill and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
Going through a green tea craze at the moment. It's the new beer.
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