Ditchingham

Br Lawrence Lew, O.P. From 9 - 11 January 2009, the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge held its annual Associates 'Winter Weekend in a conference centre in Ditchingham, Suffolk.

Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge's Winter Weekend 2009

The contents of these writings were not altogether pleasing however, for I learned from them that my father was in broken health and almost bedridden, and indeed, though I did not know it for many years after, he died in Ditchingham

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Beyond us and at right angles to the shaft ran another passage, ten paces in length and high enough for a man to walk in, which led to a chamber hollowed in the earth, as large as that wherein I write to-day at Ditchingham.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

At length came the day of burial, and my mother, wrapped in fair white robes, was laid to her rest in the chancel of the church at Ditchingham, where my father has long been set beside her, hard by the brass effigies that mark the burying place of Lily's forefather, his wife, and many of their children.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Waveney I see the vale of Tenoctitlan, for the slopes of Stowe the snowy shapes of the volcans Popo and Iztac, for the spire of Earsham and the towers of Ditchingham, of Bungay, and of Beccles, the soaring pyramids of sacrifice gleaming with the sacred fires, and for the cattle in the meadows the horsemen of Cortes sweeping to war.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Ditchingham, and when he learned my name had fallen upon me madly trying to kill me.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

In this parish of Ditchingham, where I live, there is a man with a few acres of land, an orchard, a greenhouse, etc.

Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Also I had no enemies whom I knew of, and was armed with the very sword that I had taken from de Garcia in the lane at Ditchingham, the sword that had slain my mother, and which I bore in the hope that it might serve to avenge her.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

He was still a better swordsman than I, who, till I fought with him in the lane at Ditchingham, had never even seen one of these Spanish rapiers, but I had the youth and the right on my side, as also I had an eye like a hawk's and a wrist of steel.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Ditchingham were the very nursery of fools, of whom I was the first and biggest, and indeed this same thought has struck me since concerning other matters.

Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890