Before I continue, in case you didn’t know, I have written a book on the Endeavour series. It has a colour (color) version, a B&W version and lastly a kindle version.

The book is only available from Amazon and can be purchased on Amazon.com. Click HERE to visit the Amazon page.

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Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. Time to catch up on what has been posted on my Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Enjoy.

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The Hunt in the Forest by Uccello in the Ashmolean, Oxford. It’s connection to the Morse Universe: the Lewis episode, The Point of Vanishing.

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Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford. Connection to the Morse Universe? Lewis episode And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea.

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This tickled me when I saw this scene from Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958). A young Anna Massey and Andrew Ray. But why in the context of Morse did this make me chuckle and smile in delight?

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From Emma on Twitter. Shaun_evans_fan. Promotional photo for series 5.

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From James Bradshaw’s (Max deBryn) instagram.

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BBC News – Eagle and Child: Tolkien and Lewis pub bought by tech institute.

Eagle and Child: Tolkien and Lewis pub bought by tech institute.

An Oxford pub that was frequented by authors CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien has been bought by a research institution building a campus in the city.

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), founded by US tech billionaire Larry Ellison, said it had bought the Eagle and Child, which shut in 2020.

The pub in St Giles’ dates back to 1650 and has a plaque inside commemorating the writers’ get-togethers.

EIT said it would “refurbish and reopen the iconic venue”.

Known as The Inklings, Tolkien and Lewis would regularly meet with other academics at the Grade II listed pub, which was previously owned by St John’s College.

©Bill Nicholls.

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A 22 year old, John Thaw.

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Abigail Thaw and Colin Dexter circa 1995.

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Meanwhile, here’s a story about the lovely Honeysuckle Weeks. Great news that she is managing her mental health problems and feeling better for it.

Honeysuckle Weeks says she was ‘supposed to play the Queen in The Crown’

Actor Honeysuckle Weeks has revealed that she was “supposed” to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown but lost out to Claire Foy during a period of bad mental health.

Foy played the late monarch throughout the first two seasons of the Netflix royal drama, later reprising the role in flashbacks. For seasons three and four, Oscar-winning The Favourite star Olivia Colman took over as Elizabeth, with Imelda Staunton portraying the queen for its fifth and forthcoming sixth season.

Weeks, 44, who is best known for her leading role in the ITV detective drama Foyle’s War, opened up about the missed opportunity in an interview with The Telegraph.

“I nearly got Death Comes to Pemberley, the PD James series, when another actress fell out but it went to Anna Maxwell Martin,” she said.

“I was also supposed to play the Queen in The Crown – the role that Claire Foy eventually got – but I was on the verge of mania and about to have the first of my psychotic episodes. I had a really important meeting about the role and I was florid, delusional and chaotic.”

In 2016, roughly around the time of losing out on the Crown role, Weeks was briefly declared missing. She told The Telegraph that this happened because she had absconded from the psychiatric care facility after being sectioned. The actor was admitted into psychiatric care six times, and has been diagnosed with bipolar.

“Now I accept that the only way forward is medication, medication, medication and I have left my ‘Sturm und Drang’ period behind me,” she said.

Earlier this year, it was reported that the next season of The Crown. would feature a tribute to the late queen, following her death last September at the age of 96.

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Some pictures from Roy Slater.

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This magnificent Ivy grows on New Inn Hall Street in Oxford. It is one of the oldest streets in Oxford. This is captured from my Instagram account; https://www.instagram.com/kitscot/

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One from James Bradshaw’s Twitter.

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Happy Birthday to Abigail Thaw. Here is a pic from Emma’s shaun_evans_fan Twitter account.

I hope you all enjoyed the above videos and photos. Take care.

In case you didn’t know, I have written a book on the Endeavour series. It has a colour (color) version, a B&W version and lastly a kindle version.

The book is only available from Amazon and can be purchased on Amazon.com. Click HERE to visit the Amazon page.

I hope this post finds you all well, mentally as well as physically.

Before the post begins please take time to read the following.

Please consider helping with the running of my website by making a donation via Paypal.

Donors without PayPal accounts can still donate using a credit or debit card.


>Also consider becoming a Patron through Patreon from as little as £5 per month. With Patreon you set up how much you wish to pay monthly. There are three tiers, $5, $10 and $15. It’s like paying for a magazine subscription.

Here is my Patreon account where you can read more about it, https://www.patreon.com/morseandlewisandendeavour

Thank you.