Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Buns, history and a good old natter.
We had a good weekend, particularly for the opportunity of visiting my 81 year old father who is staying with a dear friend about 100 miles west from London, in Gloucester. As I hadn't seen him since October last year, it was a good opportunity to do so as Glasgow where he lives is a much longer journey which I don't manage very often. Indeed he has visited us in London more frequently in recent years.
So we had a good natter and I listened with interest as he enthused about a book called The Secret which he bought having enjoyed the DVD which I gave him for Christmas. He says the book is fantastic, offering far more advice and more depth than the film and represents such good value at £9.99, considering it's something that can change your life! So, he strongly recommended that rush to my local bookstore with a £10 note in my hot sticky hand and purchase one. So I will. Have you seen the DVD of The Secret about the Law of Attraction and how to attract all those wonderful things that you dream of into your life? Take a look sometime. It's life changing.
One of the other highlights apart from seeing him and his dear friend was to enjoy the Hot Cross Buns which we brought with us to share. It's that time of year, when a toasted Hot Cross Bun and a good cup of tea just do the trick. It's the cinnamon and currants in the wholemeal bun that's so delicious when toasted with melting butter. Yum, yum, double yum. Make sure you get some in the next few weeks before Easter when it's the tradition to have one on Good Friday. Originating in medieval times, the cross on the top represented pagan beliefs and the four quarters of the moon before the Catholic Church adopted it after one good medieval Monk decided to give them out to the poor on Good Friday, lucky people. I wonder if they had them hot with melted butter.... I doubt it, but the name does suggest they were served warm from the oven. Read more on Hot Cross Buns, and try a Recipe if you fancy making some for yourself. Lovely!
It was a great visit, and a tour of Gloucester Cathedral made the day, more recently famed for featuring in the Harry Potter films, but offering such a step back in history, to see the magnificent splendour, medieval structures and tombs, including the son of King Richard the Lion heart.
Lunch was at the The New Inn, which isn't new at all, although it would have been in 1450 and is considered the finest example of a medieval galleried Inn to be seen in Britain today. It has the most wonderful courtyard surrounded on all sides with open galleries and a coach entrance at opposite ends. William Shakespeare is said to have performed one of his plays here, probably when London had the plague and anyone in their right mind left the city for the country until it was safe to return. I wonder if he had Hot Cross Bun while n Gloucester........
Have a good day.
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