Chaplin House B & B

Walking by Tennyson's Brook!

  Wonderful walk in the Lincolnshire Wolds this afternoon!  We set out from Hagworthingham in glorious sunny weather and headed off on an undulating walk across the wolds and were treated to views of buzzards, bullfinches and sparrowhawks as well as many small song birds - magical.  Bag Enderby was the half way point - we just love the place names round here as they make us think that hobbits probably live nearby!  And then back across 2 fords to Hagworthingham, a total distance of about 5 or 6 miles before we went home to Chaplin House for tea - a short 20 minute drive.

  Here's David closely consulting the map.

Just beyond this point, we entered the wood you can see in the background and crossed the River Lymm although at this point it's more of a stream than a river.  It is possibly the stream that inspired Tennyson's lovely poem 'The Brook' and it certainly fitted the central part of the poem:

I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps and trebles,

I bubble into eddying bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

 

With many a curve my banks I fret                 

by many a field and fallow, 

And many a fairy foreland set

With willow-weed and mallow. 

 

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may comeand men may go,

But I go on forever.

Exciting Chaplin House News

Welcome to this week's Chaplin House news.
We've had our best November ever.  Business bookings are booming, as are weekend breaks.
Even in November, our local area and the whole of Lincolnshire are full of attractions.
And next year is beginning to fill as well.

Exciting times!  David is getting a writing shed. The base is down. David's home from home will be erected shortly.
Margaret will now have the office to herself; no more constant interruption asking about spelling or 'listen to this please'.
Even more exciting times! Ears pricked: cat lovers and animal lovers and poetry lovers, the proofs have come for David's new book of poems, complete with wonderful illustrations.
It will be titled Catamorphosis: thirty poems about the inside-out and outside-in of people and cats.

Is there a Catamorphosis inside us all
One paw print beyond personality?
Seeking a way, however strange
To become some cat experience and say, "This cat is me."

The book will retail at £5.00. a CandidATe for a CApTivating read!

A preview:

CAT SIXTEEN: CATch as CATch Can.

Curious, lively, energetic,
A zip and a zither of a life
Dashing from one dimension to the next
As if they were joined by Velcro.
As if an expanding steam of pleasure
Overwhelms every available destination
And forces its lid off.

Something else to read when you stay at Chaplin House,or to buy and take home to read to your cat.