R's rue

 What is  making you smile today dear friends from R's rue https://ift.tt/3mDhmC8

 I met up with a friend in the back and beyond of Snowdonia before the galleries shut again in Wales and bought this......isn’t he delightful?  We met a third colleague and friend ( social distancing of course) who has had a dreadful time of late to offer some moral support. The Welsh Countryside has never looked so alive from Going Gently https://ift.tt/33CLQwj

A lock keeper's house As the sixteenth century turned into the seventeenth, religious tensions in the heartlands of Britain simmered. Many wanted to cling to Catholic traditions while others yearned for a more stripped down religion devoid of past rituals and the influence of The Pope. In north Nottinghamshire, word got round that there was a preacher in the village of Babworth whose sermons were  inspirational  to would-be puritans. He was called Richard Clifton. Though he never visited America nor rode upon "The Mayflower" in the autumn of 1620, he inspired two of the principal "Pilgrim Fathers". Both William Bradford and William Brewster came to All Saints Church in Babworth in order to hear "the word of God" as interpreted by Richard Clifton. He was key to the crystallisation of their religious thinking. Babworth Church I was at that peaceful half-forgotten woodland church yesterday but could not enter it. I left Clint in its shadow before ...