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Rosemary Griggs
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#dontsteponabee
🐝 Its Don't Step on a Bee Day! 🐝
Cosmos and a 🐝 in my Devon garden
#bee #flower
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Rosemary Griggs@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social |
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Historical fiction author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
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Rosemary Griggs
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#dontsteponabee
🐝 Its Don't Step on a Bee Day! 🐝
Cosmos and a 🐝 in my Devon garden
#bee #flower
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Rosemary Griggs
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There are few places as lovely as Coleton Fishacre on a summer’s day. @NTSouthWest
#gardens #dayout #devongardens
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Rosemary Griggs
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When I visited Colyton Grammar School in Devon recently, one of the Year 8 students reached into her bag and produced this lovely pocket she’d embroidered.
Isn’t that wonderful?
She has kindly agreed that I share her work.
#embroidery #pocket
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Rosemary Griggs
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The walls at All Saints Church, Winkleigh, Devon are covered with unusual sgraffito decoration, and there are gilded angels and an amazing ceiling.
A most impressive 19th century restoration
#WallsOnWednesday
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Rosemary Griggs
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#OTD in 1559 King Heni ii of France died of wounds sustained in a jousting accident starting a chain of events that brought the daughter of the Conte de Montgomery, Henri’s opponent in the joust, to Dartington Hall in Devon
tonyriches.blogspot.com/2024/03/book...
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Rosemary Griggs
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Windows high up in the ruins of Richard III’s banqueting hall at Sudeley Castle
#WindowsOnWednesday
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Rosemary Griggs
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A collection of medieval tile fragments on display in the museum at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire
📸 my own
#TilesonTuesday #medieval
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Rosemary Griggs
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I tried my hand at patchwork long ago, before my first son was born, but didn’t manage anything as impressive as this quilt at Dunster Castle
📸 my own
#textiletuesday #patchwork
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Rosemary Griggs
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Looks that way 😢 probably death in childbirth or shortly after birth of the third child
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Rosemary Griggs
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Wordle 1,115 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Rosemary Griggs
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St James the Less, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire has impressive mosaic flooring from 1879.
#mosaicmonday #mosaic
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Rosemary Griggs
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Monument to Dorothy Snell (born 1710, married 1737, died 1740) in St Mary le Crypt, Gloucester.
2 sons and 1 daughter survived her and she
was “Obedient, Faithful, Affectionate, Sincere, Benovolent and Charitable”
#MonumentsMonday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Back at my desk. Almost a chapter added.
#HistoricalFictionauthor #writing ✍️
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Rosemary Griggs
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Sedum in my Devon garden
#SundayYellow
🌱🌻🌼
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Rosemary Griggs
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Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, founded in the 13th century by Richard of Cornwall. He was buried here, along with his second wife, Sanchia of Provence, and two of his sons.
#sundaystonework #medieval
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Rosemary Griggs
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Angels bearing shields in the in the north-west window at All Saints, Winkleigh, Devon.
#StainedGlassSunday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Whether you call them dierama, wandflowers or angels fishing rods, they’re dancing in the sunshine between the showers in my Devon garden this Saturday morning.
#flowers #garden 🌱🌺🌸
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Rosemary Griggs
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A magnificent Victorian staircase at Hestercombe House @HestercombeGdns
The equestrian self-portrait was painted by former Hestercombe owner Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, together with Somerset artist Richard Phelps, in 1747.
#staircasesaturday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Another view of Buckfast Abbey, Devon.
#SteepleSaturday
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Rosemary Griggs
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I’ll have to stay up late and see if I can spot that. 😊
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Rosemary Griggs
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Model of the Madre de Dios, Museu de Marinha, Lisbon; Compton Castle; River Dart at Greenway
#OTD in 1608 Katherine Raleigh’s grandson, Sir John Gilbert II died of smallpox in London.
rosemarygriggs.co.uk/writing/9/
📸 my own
#devonhistory #Elizabethan
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Rosemary Griggs
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The view from my front window this morning— crocosmia lucifer and roses
#FlowersOnFriday 🌺🌸🌱
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Rosemary Griggs
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Norman font at St Mary’s Wolborough,Newton Abbot
📸 my own
#FontsonFriday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Surprises in my Devon garden. Rose “The Pilgrim” has emerged at the top of the garage wall through the dense mass of clematis “freckles”.
I thought “freckles” was supposed to be winter flowering?
#clematisthursday #clematis
#rose #gardening
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Rosemary Griggs
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Buckfast Abbey, #Devon. The Abbey Church of St Mary was built 1907-1932 on the foundations of the former medieval Cistercian abbey church
Much of the building work was completed by a small group of monks who worked under a master mason.
#AdoorableThursday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Time for a selfie at Newton Abbot Museum before meeting a school group this morning.
#tudor #tudorcostume #tudorlife #schoolgroup #bringinghistorytolife #historyinterpreter
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Rosemary Griggs
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A squirrel carved on a misericord at St Mary’s, Sudeley Castle
#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday
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Rosemary Griggs
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View from a window at Hestercombe @HestercombeGdns for #WindowsOnWednesday
#gardens
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Rosemary Griggs
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Plenty of roses in my Devon garden this week. Summer’s arrived at last
#rosewednesday #Roses
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Rosemary Griggs
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Lucy the Tudor - find her on facebook
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Rosemary Griggs
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Hope Cove, #Devon this afternoon.
#beach #seaside
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Rosemary Griggs
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We have small visitors 😊
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Rosemary Griggs
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Three little maids at St Peter’s Church, North Tawton, Devon
#textiletuesday
#TudorTuesday #appliqué
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Rosemary Griggs
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Look what the postman delivered yesterday!
Replica brass pins and a Mary Rose ‘bobbin’ that doubles as a needle holder. Lovely details to add to my costumes
#historyjnterpreter
#TudorTuesday
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Rosemary Griggs
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One of a beautiful set of kneelers featuring animals and birds at St Luke’s Church, Simonsbath for #owlishmonday or a day early for #textiletuesday
📸 my own
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Rosemary Griggs
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St Mary’s Tower, Dartington. Memorial to Rawlin Champernowne (d.1774), last male heir of the family. Succeeded by his nephew, Arthur Harrington, who took the name and arms of Champernowne to continue the line at Dartington
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Rosemary Griggs
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Spotted on my allotment walk today.
#butterfly 🦋
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Rosemary Griggs
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#otd 30 June, in 1559, a tragic accident at a jousting tournament changed the course of French history and Roberda’s story began
tonyriches.blogspot.com/2024/03/book...
Thank you @tonyriches
#historicalfiction #dartingtonhall #huguenots
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Rosemary Griggs
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One of the colouful #stainedglass windows by Frederick Preedy of Worcester, at St Mary’s Sudeley Castle @SudeleyCastle .
Katherine Parr flanked by her last 2 husbands, Henry VIII and Thomas Seymour
📸 my own
#StainedGlassSunday #Tudor
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Rosemary Griggs
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Here’s a splash of #SundayYellow from Buckfast Abbey where we enjoyed an excellent concert with The Torbay Singers yesterday evening
#Sunflowers
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Rosemary Griggs
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What a busy week! This was Tuesday — talking to students at Colyton Grammar School, Devon.
#bringinghistorytolife #elizabethan #devonhistory #womeninhistory
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Rosemary Griggs
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#caterday
I almost reached out to stroke this sleeping cat on a carved chair at Sudeley Castle
📸 my own
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Rosemary Griggs
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St Peter’s Church, North Tawton — a church with a Champernowne family connections
#steeplesaturday
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Rosemary Griggs
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It was lovely to chat about Devon history and the Champernowne family with Rebecca of @tudorsdynasty at Dartington Hall @dartingtontrust this afternoon.
#devonhistory #tudor #champernownefamily
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Rosemary Griggs
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A sturdy font at St Luke’s Simonsbath on Exmoor.
📸 my own from my visit a couple of weeks ago for the festival.@FSimonsbath
#FontsonFriday
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Rosemary Griggs
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I love the rich jewel like colour of this poppy glowing in the sun in my Devon garden.
self-seeds everywhere
🌱🥀
#poppy #FlowersOnFriday
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Rosemary Griggs
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Amongst the lavender and roses on a glorious summer’s evening at Pynes House, Devon with the Friends of Upton Pyne
#summer #lavender #roses
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Rosemary Griggs
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The elaborate keyhole on the Warre money chest at Hestercombe @HestercombeGdns is only for show . The true keyhole is concealed in the lid.
Thought to be 17th century and of German origin.
#ironworkthursday
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Rosemary Griggs
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A 15th century door from the former abbey hangs on the wall at St Peter’s, Winchcombe.
The initials are for Abbot Richard Kidderminster (1488-1525) preacher, scholar and trusted servant of Henry VIII and Wolsey
📸 my own
#AdoorableThursday #tudor
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Rosemary Griggs
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What a lovely evening with the Friends of Upton Pyne at beautiful Pynes House, Devon @PynesHouseDevon
#tudorcostume #womeninhistory #HistoricalFiction
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