Yesterday dear readers of Wear and Dao, we drove South on the A1 then West over to Yorkshire to discover a new National Trust venue to visit, East Riddlestone Hall, on a gorgeous warm sunny day. The joys of retirement again ... a 2 hour + drive via Bolton village to Keithly and East Riddlestone Hall, bought and remodelled by a prosperous wool merchant during the English Civil War between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, epitomized by King Charles who lost his head to an axe through his neck and Oliver Cromwell leader of the Republicans or Parliamentarians and insurrectionists.
Now clearly this caused problems since the wealthy wool merchant hedged his bets since the outcome of the Civil War was by no means assured! Anyway that's history for you folks and taking sides too. Personally your old blogger was never a royalist and in fact spent some years as a communist before studying Buddhism and meditating with different Buddhist sects before trying Daoism then took up J. Krishnamurti's philosophy to avoid any gurus or organised religion of any kind ... how to sum up my philosophy here and now? Well dear readers you could do worse than follow the Dalai Lama's simple teaching: Just be kind to all you meet ... that's it ... how simple Life can be ...
On Monday afternoon we went to find a mobility scooter to make life easier for the kind caring friend and found one perfectly suited to both our needs ... such is Life in Stanhope in the Sun!
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