A really quite relaxing day, not doing very much at all. We did go to a plant fair thing, where Elayne bought some plants and some metal works, which will be useful in the garden.
I started reading the Plantagenets book, which is quite well written in that it reads a bit like a story, rather than a list of facts. So it’s quite entertaining. I learnt about Henry 1 lost his heir after a drunken episode on a ship that got wrecked and nearly everybody drowned.
Whilst he tried appoint his daughter Matilda as the queen, it turns out that the Barons weren’t having it so supported the other son, Stephen, and so it looks like there’s going to be a bit of a fight. Of which there seem to have been quite a lot in those days.
Bills Posts 