Willow House

Sneak Peek

Everything went according to plan, well almost, I forgot to recharge the camera so this is all I have to show for now:

More pics will follow!

Quick update

Tomorrow, if everything goes according to plan we will be going here , I'm getting awfully excited!

The Witches Heart

On a beautiful sunny day walking around a picturesque historic town it can be hard to believe the horrors that once took place there. For example in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, one poor woman was boiled alive in the market square, or should I say boiled to death, for that was the punishment for poisoners in the times of Henry VIII. It is horrible to even think of the suffering that took place and even harder to comprehend how execution became a source of entertainment for some.

Look carefully at the above photograph and you will see a diamond shape with a heart inside it. This is a reminder to the populace of Kings Lynn of the execution of one Margaret Read in 1590. It is said that she was burned as a witch, an unusual form of execution for witches in England, despite popular opinion witches were usually hanged in England, it was heritics who were burned at the stake. Anyway poor Margaret Read went to the flames despite her protestations of innocence, in her agonies she screamed a curse upon the magistrate who had sentenced her and her heart burst from her chest and flew across the market place hitting the magistrates house.

Actually that is just one story attached to the heart, others say that it bounced away to the River Ouse. Some say that Margaret was hanged not burned and some say that the heart belonged to some other poor felon not Margaret at all.