Comments on: Murder in the Gazebo https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15304 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:16:27 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15304 In reply to Kate Dyson.

Hello Kate. I think there must have been a glitch as the comment appeared under last week’s post. But safely received, and appreciated as ever.

]]> By: Kate Dyson https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15301 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 23:21:36 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15301 Ah! It sent it after all!!!!

]]> By: Kate Dyson https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15300 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 23:20:46 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15300 In reply to Editor.

Tried to reply to your reply. It told me I had already replied and refused to send a second message. Maybe it will work this time as long as I don’t mention Ramster Garden!

]]> By: Kate Dyson https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15299 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 23:19:00 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15299 In reply to Editor.

Ramster is a beautiful garden, best seen at azalea and rhodie time, but lovely in Autumn too. It celebrated its 100th birthday last year. If you need a cuppa, they have an excellent tea house/cafe. It’s not open all year, so best to check. You will find several chain saw sculptures around the garden, but alas no ancient folly!
Happy summer back!

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15291 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 08:54:00 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15291 ]]> In reply to Kate Dyson.

Good morning Kate. I will put the Ramster gardens on my ‘must visit’ list. I’m told that the rest of the cedar will be put to good use on the estate. Hope you are enjoying the sunshine. 🌞

]]> By: Kate Dyson https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15286 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 07:03:22 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15286 Making a sculpture is a wonderful way of Preserving the memory of a precious and ancient tree. Over the years, wonderful chain saw sculptures have been appearing in the well known gardens at Ramster, near Chiddingfold in Surrey, the newest is a splendid dragon bench made from a huge fallen redwood.
The Cirencester Park folly gazebo is especially fine. Well found!
Kate

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15124 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:38:08 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15124 In reply to Gwyn Headley.

Afternoon Gwyn. Oh dear, I can feel my reading pile growing too. I think ‘A Marriage under the Terror’ was an early historical romance by Patricia Wentworth, before she developed her interest in detective/crime fiction. What a shame your library doesn’t have any Miss Silver stories – they deserve to be better known. Do report back on the other ‘gazebo’ novels.
Yes, I was pleased to see that the poem is earlier than the OED’s noted first use. And great to find such an early example of the ‘xx counties visible’ folly boast.

]]> By: Gwyn Headley https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15122 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:29:37 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15122 Splendid research on the book jackets! I LURV kozy krime written by middle-aged, middle class English ladies, so I rushed on to Libby to borrow this from my local library. Sadly the only Patricia Wentworth they had on offer is ‘A Marriage Under The Terror’, which is not quite the thing. So I looked for ‘The Gazebo’, and found the following:
The Gazebo, by Glen A Mills
The Gazebo, by Alexander Lebenstein
The Gazebo, by Guy Portman
and
The Corpse in the Gazebo, by Debra Sennefelder.
So that’s my reading sorted for the next few weeks.
OED says the first noted use of the word in English was in 1752: The Elevation of a Chinese Tower or Gazebo. W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny, New Designs Chinese Bridges iv. 2, so your Wetenhall Wilks quote precedes that.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15112 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:44:30 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15112 In reply to Colin.

Good morning Colin. I’d forgotten about that. I must revisit. Thanks for the prompt!

]]> By: Colin https://thefollyflaneuse.com/murder-in-the-gazebo/#comment-15110 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:38:12 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12724#comment-15110 ….and of course Broadway Tower was also the location of another fictional murder, solved by a certain Father Brown! Thanks for another fascinating Folly!

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