Suki the woman in white....

....who supposedly haunts the west Wycombe caves!

Suki, the White Lady: Suki (short for Susan) was a 16 year old maid at the local George and Dragon Inn in the late 18th or early 19th century. She was apparently by far the most appealing of the serving staff, and many local men vied for the girl's affections. But Suki had ambitions to marry into society, and rejected the advances of all her local admirers. She began dating a local aristocrat, and one day she got a message, apparently from her lover, asking her to meet him in the caves one night wearing her best white dress as a wedding gown. She arrived in candlelight and in her white dress, but it was a hoax by three village boys. She threw stones in fury at her laughing tormentors, but when one of the boys threw one back, she was knocked unconscious. Shocked at what they had done, the boys carried her back to her bed in the inn, but she died during the night. The caves and inn are reputed to be haunted by her ghost, and many staff and visitors have reported sighting a girl in a wedding dress wandering the passageways.

After the cool surroundings of the cave we warmed up considerably by climbing the hill to have a look at the Dahwood Mausoleum. Only most of the children staged a sit down refusal to climb anymore!

Today is my last day of work for a week.
This afternoon most of the contents of my lounge were carried off to storage. The rest has been spread around the house. The resulting mess is awful, but i guess it all gets worse before it gets better. Tomorrow’s task is to paint the ceiling!