Preparation of Tudor “Sweetmeats” by Food Historian Ivan Day including; painted sugar trenchers (roundels), true-lover’s knots and artificial walnuts which would have messages inside (mostly love poetry). These would have quite possibly been enjoyed by Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Robert Dudley during their many visits to the manor of Rycote in Oxfordshire, England – (Time Team – Season 8, Episode 6: Rycote, Oxfordshire – A Palace Sold for Scrap)
“I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it’s an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.” – Florence Welch photographed by Vincent Haycock (2018)