Great Alfred Hunt: Route

Just a note... my travel to visit King Alfred-related places.

Day 1&2 - Oxford: Ashmolean Museum (Alfred Jewel, Alfred coins)
Day 3 - Wantage: Alfred's birthplace, the statue
Day 4 - Wallingford : Alfred's borough, Saxon walls
Day 4&5 - Winchester : Alfred's Capital
Day 5&6 - Wareham : Saxon walls, Danes' camp
Day 7 - ATHELNEY! And Glastonbury
Day 8&9 - Durham : Venerable Bede's tomb (stayed in Newcastle to meet my friend)
Day 9 - Bury St.Edmunds : King and St.Edmund the Martyr
Day 10&11 - London : Alfred's city, British Museum (Saxon remains)

Photos may come later. :-)

Website and Another Bookmark

Tweaked my website a bit. Some sketches are uploaded. Good.

And I made another bookmark, or rather, doodled on the back of a paper strip while reading "The Namesake" again.

It's a fake Wessex Banner... under a concept "what if someone who doesn't have much clue drew a Wessex Banner?"
Ha ha.
It must be a white dragon and a cross, by the way.

The chimneys of Hell/ Black Raven

Meanwhile....
The volcano havoc reminds me of these lines from my beloved "The Marsh King" by C.W.Hodges, the juvenile about Alfred the Great;

It is said that the Devil himself dwells in the north. In the land of Iceland in the northern sea there is a smoking mountain, which is one of the chimneys of Hell.
(Ch.7: To the Threshold)

Happy (Very Belated) Deathday, Alf.

I totally forgot that Oct. 26th was Alfred's 1110th (probably) Deathday.

Well, Happy Deathday, Alf.

And there's a background image in the website now.
A photo of crepuscular rays I took years ago, though I tweaked it a bit with Photoshop.
Not bad, I think.