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Day 56: 4th May – May the 4th be with Us

Today’s trivia is on May the Forth:

  • It’s 235 days till Xmas or more sobering,  124th day of the year, 125th if a leap year.
  • Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile in 1814.
  • In 1919 the May Fourth Movement, student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • In 1972 the Don’t Make A Wave Committee, founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the “Greenpeace Foundation”.
  • In 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
  • Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.  Everyone knows her as the Iron Lady
  • Audrey Hepburn born in 1929 (died 1993). Everyone knows her as the film and fashion star.
  • Belinda Green, born in 1952. Everyone knows her as 1972 Miss World!
  • and yes it’s the May the Force be with You day

We decided to go to Rye, even if it was a public holiday, a Bank Holiday. A holiday that everyone has in the UK, unlike in Oz where a Bank Holiday is only for the Bankers.

At St Pancras platform, platform 13 was pretty empty until the train pulled in and then everyone came out of the woodwork. At Asford International we needed to change lines to a train half the size so a bit of a sh@t fight and ended up standing for the trip to Rye. BTW, Asford doesn’t have an international airport, it just happens to be a stop for the Eurostar!

Turns.oit, the vast majority were.going to the coast, not thatany.got off at Rye.

Lamb House is up a cobble stoned road and is free thanks to the National Trust . . .

The Southeastern train coming in
Last door on right is Lambs house
The back
and back, back

The house was owned by the american, Mr Lamb, his sone and his son. It was later tenanted to some notable writers and bombed in 1940 by the germans.

Harry James, or is it James Harry
Edith Wharton
The dining room
2IC says rose napkins for our guests now
George Meredith
John Singer Sargent as the A Great Realist
Group of Thirty-Five Heads
King George I stayed at house on night . . .
Godson was born, Gordon George Lamb
The typewriter
The writing desk
On of the first telephones in Rye

Over at the Church of Saint Mary . . .

From the Lambs
Church of Saint Mary
Clock tower pendulum

Some locals shops . . .

Chocolate
and Teddies
Cooked
A few books 2IC is interested in

and more . . .

I asked for some and got that blank look
Connections to the Lamb house

Along Mermiad Street. . .

1st house . . .
The house opposite . . .
Secret garden house . . .
and the house with two front doors

and some other stuff elsewhere . . .

The Church clock
I didn’t bother asking
Oh nooooo
The food critics

We missed the 2:50pm train by 20sec and had to wait for the 3:50pm. Good thing as the train was packed.like sardines. A slightly less crowded train at 4:50 saw us home!

Apart from the train trip, a good day out.

Today’s travels . . .

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