Wow, the 1482 Barnard Castle is a true Gothic home in County Durham, UK. It was first constructed at some point prior to 1482. There's also later wedding-commemorating engraving that reads 1672. It's currently designated as mixed-use and has 3 or 4bds, 1.5ba. It also belonged to Richard III at some point. £450k / $595,665 approx. USD.
Look at the heavy, carved doors.
It's broody inside, but not creepy, and a miscellany of period features have been added throughout the building’s life, with many still visible today.
The dining room is lovely.
The sitting room has a nice tall fireplace.
Now, in this room, there's another gorgeous fireplace, and on the ceiling is a medallion that commemorated the wedding. It has a "B" for Blagraves, which was the family name. I could live here, my last name begins with a "B."
This room gets more light.
This is interesting. The kitchen does not look like a kitchen.
This sink is in a smaller room thru this door. When they put in a modern kitchen, they certainly didn't compromise the integrity of the original floor plan.
The stairs to the bedrooms.
There's a nice landing.
They re-hung these doors that were used for the wedding, and they have the date on them.
Nice large bedroom with a sitting area and medallion on the ceiling.
Pretty tiles on the fireplace. It's amazing that these fireplaces work.
I feel like in at least most of these cases, the person holding the phone must have been in possession of crucial information, which they chose not to share.
I know in my heart, in my very soul, that athelas is related to mint. I just KNOW that kingsfoil is in the lamiaceae family.
There are hobbits who recoil in genteel horror when some innocent little baby hobbit gardener proudly says they planted kingsfoil in the herb garden because it smells nice.
The houses of healing at Minas Tirith do not challenge the king about having it in their medicinal gardens, but they do side eye him very hard.
First: YES athelas is absolutely mint family, not just because of the good smell text clues but because Tolkien probably based it on field woundwort (Stachys arvensis) which 1) as you might guess from the name was used for treating wounds, 2) commonly grows specifically along Roman roads in the same way and for the same reason that athelas grows along Númenorean roads, and 3) is also in the mint family (but does not smell good; one can imagine Tolkien learning this lore and going okay but what if it was Better)
Second: absolutely fucking set that weed loose on the Gorgoroth plateau. Mints are fantastic for aerating dense but nutrient-rich soil (like, yk, volcanic areas) so that other plants can get their lil roots in there and actually make use of those nutrients, so they're a solid front line soldier if your goal is aggressive restoration of a dead area. They're also really good at removing toxins like pesticides and heavy metals from the soil so I would like to formally recommend to Elessar Telcontar that he plant heavily in the Morgul Vale as well to combat whatever the fuck is happening in the curséd soil and water there. 🌿🫡
So what you're telling us is that when the Ring was tempting Sam with "the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit [...] a garden swollen to a realm" is not "a mere cheat to betray him" but an acutal possibility?
Otherwise those are facinating thoughts on kingsfoil!
I would 1000% deploy mint against Mordor any day of the week and expect it to win, let alone actual athelas (imbued with Special Powers Against Darkness, and also, I firmly believe and backed up by info above, is also in the mint family)
Mint routinely breaks through pots and sneaks its way into the ground through rhizomes. Add in Special Powers Against Darkness and absolutely no competition for space and nutrients in volcanic soil, frankly they’ll have to prune it with fire in a few years
This is the bilogical warfare of Hobbits, in't'it? ["Isn't it?"] Nah like I mean this, using magic plants to heal the world after the Enemy razed it, is exactly what Sam goes and does to the Shire, so like I can absolutely see that he'd get King Strider to do it to Mordor or advise him to.
“Wisenheimer” is my favorite page in Lackadaisy because it’s so rich in historical details : ) I wish someone would do a full analysis of it because I’m sure there are things I’m missing, but a few details I noticed with my grandmother are…
A reference to the hit song “Yes! We Have No Bananas” by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from 1923
Lux soap
A “Perpetual Sunshine” advertisement for Radithor, which was a radioactive medication that caused many deaths, and required people to be buried in lead coffins ._.
As well as a “Dapper Dan” flyer, which might have been an ad for this brand of pomade? I’m not sure.
Tons of candy brands that still exist today, such as Baby Ruth, Hershey’s, Milk Duds, and Bit O’ Honey.
And this adorable feline recreation of a real Saturday Evening Post magazine, which marks the approximate date of May 28th 1927 :D
As a childhood know-it-all who has grown into the Weird Facts Person. Please know that sharing wonder is my love language. I’m not trying to ‘look smart’ I’m trying to share the joy and excitement and nothing makes me happier. Tell me your weird niche knowledge back I promise that’s all I want
Koalas' brains are the size of a walnut and are full of holes; their heads are so large because they have massive amounts of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) to protect their brain when it bounces around in there when they fall out of trees.
It’s illegal to shoot Bigfoot in Canada not because Bigfoot exists, but to eliminate legal precident that would absolve hunters from criminal charges in the even of attempted murder!
So you can’t defend yourself by saying “because I thought he was Bigfoot” because you shouldn’t be shooting Bigfoot, either! 😊
the most important thing to know about the UK isnt the tea or the baked beans or whatever. its that mr brightside has been charting on the uk top 100 for 475 weeks, or about 9 years straight. sometimes it just randomly rises up to the top 40 for no reason. the grip that song has on our souls should be studied.
one time me and my coworkers were locked out of our storage building in the rain and we somehow ended up in an extremely passionate group rendition of mr brightside. like 30 people belting our hearts out, rain dripping down our faces. in my heart that is how this song should be ideally experienced tbh.
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