Bopping in Bard Land

Having missed the opportunity to have visited Statford-upon-Avon; as part of a literature trip during my high school days, I was delighted to venture on down to Anne Hathaway’s cottage and Henley Street. Amid the spells of spitty rain my trip was short but splendid.













This cottage is the most romantic of the Shakespeare Houses, where William courted his future wife at her family home. I learned that as a result of the Bard's fornication and to avoid bearing an illegitimate child, he married at 18, to his lover Anne who had fallen pregnant. That event must have been super, sexy, scandalous.










I took a walk around the cottage garden. I managed to found a variety of fruit trees. I snapped this one. As you can see they are embellished with lovely red organic apples. The natural forms are not perfect, just like us humans, our hearts and the relatationships we have with one another. The setting is just so romantic and when I'm courting again I will gladly take my lover with me.


























The Bard's birthplace.