Westminster Abbey

I notice that on this day in 1065 Westminster Abbey was consecrated.

A few years ago when we were in London our visit to Westminster Abbey was a high point.

The royals were vaguely interesting, but I have trouble thinking of them as much other than gangsters, and they didn’t get lots of our attention. I did enjoy the surprising fact that the coronation throne, King Edward’s Chair, was heavily carved with various people’s names – from a time they didn’t keep quite so close a watch on such things…

We looked for Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer and I was edified following Jan as she searched for and found Aphra Behn’s, grave. Aphra was the first woman known to earn her living as a writer.

Virgina Woolf wrote “All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

And Jan did…

We continued to wander about…

I hadn’t realized that Charles Darwin was buried there. Loved it when we stumbled upon the spot.

Somehow it seemed all so right…