Another year, another place, another attempt at blogging.

 

These photos were taken in a field near my house in Ashford Carbonel late September 2022.

I posted the black and white ones on Facebook with no words, in their "slideshow section.

Our next house.

Update September 2022:

Nearly ten years after we have a similar 14th century longhouse, encased in a, probably, Victorian shell.

Was Rastafari temporarily a Salopian?

The Norman French couldn't pronounce the local name.. Given that Shropshire was known in Norman times as "Scrobsbyrigscire" this is quite understandable. The name meant "shire of the fort in the scrub" and Salop is said to be the Norman attempt to pronounce the "Scrob" part. The government tried to officially change the county's name to Salop in 1974, but as "salope" is indeed now a French word for a woman of ill-repute, the locals objected and the name Shropshire returned in 1980. However, people from Shropshire such as myself, are still called Salopians.

Date: 2003

Description: Ras Tafari Makonnen was born on the 23rd July, 1892 in Harrar, Ethiopia and was the youngest of ten children. He became the Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 when he became officially known as Emperor Haile Selassie I. Rastafarians believe that Selassie was a black messiah and the name Haile Selassie actually means "power of the Holy Trinity". This photograph of the Emperor was taken at Shrewsbury Castle in January 1938.

I'm sure Rastafari lived at Powis Castle........