An Island of Tranquillity

It is 4 o’clock on a sunny Thursday afternoon and I have been trampling around London for hours with a friend – or rather, trying to keep up with my friend who is energetically pushing her two-year-old in a pushchair around the city, on the Tube and on buses – and I am feeling tired and on the verge of becoming grumpy. As with most foreigners who adopt a new home to the fullest, my friend knows a lot about London and its leisure, architectural and historical heritage and gleefully spouts an amazing amount of information on most every notable building or area we visit.

As we wind our way through the hustle and bustle of Fleet Street, Chancery Lane and High Holborn my friend points down a side street and says, “Look! Look down there. It’s Lincoln’s Inn! Let’s go!” Intrigued, my almost-grumpiness and fatigue begin to fade as we make our way past some modern architecture toward a group of truly beautiful buildings. We leave gray, cement, and traffic behind to find glorious trees and the kind of intricate architecture that in this day and age would be impossible to execute let alone pay for. And there, at the end of the lane, lies the island of tranquillity which is Lincoln’s Inn and Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Encompassing a massive eleven acres in central London, Lincoln’s Inn was originally set up in the 15^th Century as accommodation for people of the legal professions and later added an educational venue for students of the law. Today it comprises both residential accommodation and commercial accommodation i.e., office space. A large part of the complex is made up of extremely interesting and beautiful historic buildings which are open to the public for pre-booked tours as well as for private or corporate events such as meetings, banquets and weddings. In true English olde worlde tradition, resident law students and members of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn may dine in the halls ? think Harry Potter at Hogwarts or classic scenes from Cambridge and Oxford Universities.

All day long, gas lamps burn in the exterior areas of Lincoln’s Inn, the same as they must have burned in ages past. History is in fact everywhere in Lincoln’s Inn, and details can be found on their website. The Chapel is perhaps the most readily accessible area of Lincoln’s Inn, where a series of concerts – including regular free lunchtime concerts on Tuesdays during term time – feature the talent of young musicians of the Royal College of Music. Erected in 1623, the Chapel has seen many famous religious and political figures. The poet John Donne preached “a right rare and learned sermon” during the consecration and he has an association with the Chapel bell, reproduced here from the Lincoln’s Inn website: ‘In addition to ringing for curfew at nine o’clock each evening, it is also tolled by ancient custom at midday on the death of a Bencher of the Inn, a practice long held to be the inspiration for the quotation from Donne’s poem beginning “No Man is an Island” which concludes “And therefore never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”.’

Babies abandoned on the Chapel steps during the 18^th and 19^th Centuries were adopted by the Inn, often given the name Lincoln and raised until they were grown up. Bringing up baby in modern times is made easier by Thermomix and its time-saving features. It’s so fast and easy to make healthy, nutritious, good-tasting baby food in Thermomix where you can chop, cook, stir and blend your baby’s food all in one bowl with just one blade. And while it’s cooking, you can be tending to baby, doing other chores or perhaps even sneaking in some “me” time – painting your nails, checking Facebook or Twitter, and the like.

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Bon appétit !

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