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Pomona, photograph of the ‘real’ Alice Liddell, by Julia Margaret Cameron, albumen print, 1872, England. Museum no. RPS.1271-2017. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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“Experience a mind-bending journey into Wonderland at V&A’s  (London)

Alice \Curiouser and Curiouser

(opens 27 June)

Featuring original illustrations and photographs as well as all manner of other Alice-inspired multimedia, this immersive and theatrical show promises to do proper justice to creative geniuses the world over.

The Alice Town Trails

in Llandudno (Wales)

will tell you about the ‘real’ Alice’s holiday in the Welsh seaside town.  Narrated as if by Lewis Carroll

with the help of witty quips by the Mad Hatter, there are two ‘augmented reality’ tours and an origins app available to download for smart phones or you can buy a paper map in the town.

Mark Davies, author of Alice in Waterland and Alice’s Oxford on Foot

is the only Oxford guide endorsed by the Lewis Carroll Society.   

His Alice in Waterland tours are offered to small groups and can be tailored to your interests.  Walks vary in length but usually follow paths through

Christ Church Meadow     

that Carroll would have walked on many occasions.

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Gifts were (and still are as we witnessed at a holy well in Ireland a few years ago) left at these wells such as coins, buttons, beads, keys, buckled, ribbons, rags (tied on tree branches etc in a knot) and “dolly” figures were favored

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Flowers, fruits, stones and crystals were also often left at holy wells

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So long as the gifts/offerings remained at the wells a tie with the well existed for the person who left them.

Chessel’s Court

Edinburgh, 

Chessel’s Court, a courtyard in the Old Town of Edinburgh surrounded by fine restored tenements, dates from about 1745.

In the 1850’s one of the upper flats was said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman, who had hanged herself there.  Breathing and other sounds were reportedly heard, and also apparently spotted was the apparition of a tall woman clad in a black silk dress and with a black veil hiding its face.

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If you or someone else removed the gift from the well,  the person who removed it is said to receive the illness complaint of the person who left the offering.

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The wells were and some still are decorated with garlands on special days.

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This day I will be happier than a bird with a French fry

take a virtual walk thru:

St. Mary Abbots Church

                                        Photo added by Bobb Edwards

for BIO

Illustrious parishioners throughout the years have included: Beatrix Potter, Sir Issac Newton, William Wilberforce, William Thackeray, and more recently, PD James, MP Michael Gove and former Prime Minister David Cameron.

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The Otherworld is but a short distance from theirs where humans continue to live a similar life.  (like the Castle of the Grail.

Beltane

The last of the spring festivals (Imbolic   Ostara and Beltane) and the second  and the second principal Celtic festival (other Samhain ).  It was traditional to      celebrate it between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice (Spring and Midsummer) in ancient times to mark the arrival of summer.

In ancient times the year was divided into two parts  winter or the Dark part where the sun is held in hiding.. A time which  honors the dead and summer when the sun is released the time of the light.honoring the living.

Beltane (and Samhain) is a period of “no time”—and the veil between the world and the otherworld is at it’s thinnest—a time that the beings of both mingle resulting in a time of strong magic.  A time when the faeries return full of mischief and delight.  In days gone by the night before Beltane the people would place rowan branches at their windows and doors to protect them from the otherworldly beings that were about at this time.

For instance The Isle of Man –(it’s past) here the youngest member of the family gathers primroses on the eve before Beltane and throws flowers  about the home for protection

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The Otherworld was a resting place of the gods and the dead (alive again).  A marvelous paradise, an orchard where the fruit is ripe all year and there is no death or old age

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It is said that the Queen of the Faeries rides out on her white horse.  Roving about on Beltane eve.  She will try to entice people away to the Faeryland.

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