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The Peascods also had to fork out sky-high fees for vets' bills, quarantine and a pet passport.

On the other side of the castle walls, Windsor's main shopping drags - Peascod Street and the High Street - contain the usual retail temptations, but with more exclusive designer label shops that in the off-season provide a perfect Christmas gift hunting ground.

Head to the main Peascod Street for high street names or Windsor Royal Station for designer brands.

Kiberd deals with very similar issues in a chapter in his book Imagining Ireland, published in 1995: Anti-pastoralists like O'Nolan and Kavanagh were, of course, following a lead which had been given by James Joyce, whose own views on the peasantry became even clearer with the publication in the 1940s of Stephen Hero, in which the main protagonist says: "The glorified peasantry seem all to me as like one another as a peascod is to another peascod.

In November of 1640, the village of Upton held a "peascod feast" (apparently either a wooing or a harvest feast) on a Sunday in an open field.

His province was littoral and watery: low damp but affluent grazing-land, where cattle slaked their innocent thirst from an estuary shared with peascod fishing-boats, some of the boats half-sunk in reeds, others bouncing seawards, their sails full of wind.

Mall Berry's decision to adorn her true love's handkerchief with the peascod and the blossom is fraught with anxiety.

Damme if I see much difference in peasants: they all seem to me as like one another as a peascod is like another peascod.

Watts Michael E & Denise D, to Crapser Nicholas; 1190 Peascod Dr, Eugene; $260,000.

STRIKER In this family show, young Isabel finds adventure on board the Peascod, an old whaling ship bound for Formby shore in search of the legendary Striker - a black dog of giant proportions who possibly once ate the leg of the ship's captain.

with texts by Ellen Peascod John Kuczwal Simone Fraser Owen Rye Lindsay Duncan Chester Nealie Ettore Sannipoli Peter Haynes Robert Bell Alan Peascod and Janet Mansfield

Treherne's own contribution will be his orchestral piece Peascod Time.

The main shopping areas are Peascod Street, High Street and Thames Street, Windsor Royal Station, King Edward Court and Eton High Street.