Beloved Eleanor

Apparently there’s a Travelling Wombat.  Very nice chap he is too.  He’d like for you to follow his adventures.

The Travelling Wombat

Tell him I sent you and said hi, won’t you?

I’ve known about this site for quite some time, but it may amuse some of my castley friends.

The person running this website has made a 3D architectural model of the castle, which you can view and play with different angles online.  Apparently you can even buy a copy.  Shame about the name typo though.

Have fun!

Castle Fraser 3D model

Saw this over at Everyday Tarot and thought it was quite an interesting one.

You Scored as II – The High PriestessThe High Priestess is a card of intuition, instinct and hidden knowledge. She knows all your secrets, you can hide nothing from her. Yet you will never know the secrets she herself protects.If well aspected in a Tarot spread, this card can indicate the use of intuition to solve problems; trust to your instincts. If badly aspected, it can mean suppression and ignoring of such instincts – following your head at the expense of your heart. II – The High Priestess 88% III – The Empress 63% XI: Justice 56% I – Magician 56% XVI: The Tower 50% IV – The Emperor 50% VIII – Strength 50% 0 – The Fool 44% XIX: The Sun 38% XIII: Death 38% XV: The Devil 38% VI: The Lovers 19% X – Wheel of Fortune 13%

Attention Entrecard friends: due to the recent advertising changes, I believe that EC is no longer the place for me.  I simply used the service to find other blogs, and have ‘met’ and read many nice people and blogs in my year there.

Since the announcement to change the advertising system so that paid outside ads take precedence, and the fact that I would have to pay credits every time I refused one, I feel that I would not have appropriate control over what could be displayed on my blog.

Therefore, I am currently buying up ads for my final week, and will not be accepting any further ads here after today.  Thank you to everyone who has dropped and commented via this system – I really hope the bloggers that I’ve met will continue to visit, as I will continue to visit them regardless of this change.

Important update: it is good news that the payment for refusing the paid outside ads idea has now been revoked, and users will not be penalised.  I have decided to stand by my decision to leave however, as I have been thinking for some time that my useage of EC was coming to a natural end.  I will still be visiting those blogs that I have found though!

Oh the joy of waking up this morning.  Earlier on I’d been impressed to see that the snow from Wednesday was receeding, and I was fervently hoping that it would melt overnight.

8am.  Open curtains.  I can’t see anything through the window…

Turns out it was snowing so hard it was impossible to do anything.  The road hasn’t been cleared, schools have been shut and we are advised not to travel.  Worst snow for a while I think, and it had to coincide with a day I actually had things planned to do, thanks.

On and unrelated topic, I have decided to join Twitter.  If you want to add me, or me to add you for that matter, you can find me as ‘alisonlodge’.

Here’s to melting snow, or the occasional appearance of a plough, cheers.

Some of the sharper eyed, or more regular visitors amongst you will have noticed that EleanorBlog has had an update and new look.

This year, it will have been going for 2 years, and I’ve just bought 2 more years with my domain, so here’s to a few more.

I have been working on some other major research projects elsewhere, so Eleanor has had to wait somewhat, but this year the main pages will at last be completed for those of you that are interested in Eleanor, or just fancy a look.  I will let you know when it’s done and add a link here.

In the meantime, if you spot anything strange or broken, please let me know!

For new visitors, here are a few posts that explain why this blog is so-called:

• Introducing Eleanor
• Beloved Eleanor the Painting
• Whom Dead We Cannot Cease to Love
• Wordless Wednesday Entry – Hardingstone Cross
• Wordless Wednesday Entry – Harby Church
• Eleanor Crosses in Antiquity
• Collecting Eleanor
• Some Words About Fake Eleanor Crosses
• In Memory of Eleanor
• Wordless Wednesday Entry – Closeup of the Waltham Cross
• About Eleanor’s Family
• Eleanor of Castlile by Mark Satchwill
• The Tourist’s Eleanor

Let me know what you think so far, and thanks to all of you that have visited and commented since 2007.

Hello lovely people.  I have just discovered that my friend Elinor has started a blog!

There is only one post at the mo, so it is a baby blog, but I would appreciate it if you would pop over and say hello and give some encouragement to a new fellow blogger. Thanks

Pics of the Medieval Festival coming up soon…

Elinor’s blog Retrogirl.

I’m shocked at how fast the time has gone.  This means that now I have to really sort out my website for Eleanor of Castile and upload the photos and articles that I have written etc.

The problem is I don’t actually like the theme I have on there any more.  I quite liked it at first, but it slightly depresses me now, so I don’t want to do any work on the site.  Unfortunately I really can’t afford to have a site designed, so I’m on the look out for some nice historic looking free layouts.

Anyone got any tips of good places to go?

I’m going to be giving some Castle Fraser stuff away in honour of my first blogoversary, but I haven’t decided if there is going to be a competition of some sorts in there as well.  Will announce it in a few days…

I have been invited to participate in this by both Rhonda and Stine. It aims to increase your/our Technorati ratings.

If you want to join in, please do so, I’m not going to tag anyone here, just copy and paste how it says below.

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