Christine's former home is now an event/retreat space
 

Check this out:
https://www.thequaives.com/

Nice! They did something like that with the Oliviers’ stately home, Notley Abbey in Buckinghamshire. Apparently, there’s good money in such special event facilities.

Is this one pronounced CAVES, KWAVES, or KEEVES?

I am so glad so many will get to experience all of its luxury. What a great way to start a new life than be married at the place Chris lived and mostly built (back).

Pretty sure it’s Kwaves

I will be visiting the UK in the summer. I wonder what the cost of a nightly stay at Christine's former home is. I can imagine the price is astronomical.

It looks like Wickhambreaux is only 14 miles from the city of Margate. I wonder if, during her years of seclusion, Christine hung out in Margate often. Did she do her shopping there? I would love to know what her daily life was like while living in Wickhambreaux.

Are there any Brits on this message board?

I propose we all pool our resources and host an inaugral Night of A Thousand Christines there. There'll be karaoke and non-stop C. McVie worship, and of course plenty of wine.

David can play us a medley of his interpretations of the late songbird's oeuvre, and if we all chip in we can fly Villavic in from Peru to give hourly readings of Chris-related passages from his Mick books.

Save the date!

This sounds like BIG FUN!!

I would love a first annual "Night of 1000 Christines" - complete with copious amounts of wine, cigarettes, and piano singalongs.

I would also fly in comedienne Sandra Bernhard to perform the live rendition of her Christine McVie Monologue complete with "Songbird" and Sloppy Toms for everyone.

"Hey Sandy, did I ever tell you about the time that Stevie almost put out my eye with one of the fringes from her shawl as she was twirling madly...?"

I have to get my outfit ready!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH0Ft22t1E

Count me in. I have dibs on Oh Daddy performing it in my cape and accordion.

She may well have visited the seaside town of Margate that is going through a resurgence ….there is a Tate gallery, there.
But I think Canterbury with its 1400 year old Cathedral, is where she would visit.
Archbishop Thomas Becket was assassinated in the Cathedral by four knights acting on behalf of King Henry 2nd in 1170…
It is a very popular City to visit with the Pilgrims Way ending at Canterbury.

I would think it’s pronounced Kwaves

Back in the day i think there was someone who posted here that they'd seen/approached Chris in a supermarket there...I think she was in the pasta sauce aisle lol. She got an autograph. People also saw her occasionally in the pub she frequented near her house...what the hell was the name, the Rose something? I wish we knew more of what she was up to in those days. I did get messages ages ago from someone who heard townsfolk talking in that pub about how Ed had moved out in early 2000. I guess people who lived there knew things from time to time about her life. There was obviously a period where she didn't get out much... and she said she didn't have any friends there. She only knew her brother and SIL. Very isolating.

--Lis

Yes, the local pub is called The Rose..it was mentioned in some of the articles detailing the sale of her estate.

I remember way back when those photos of Christine walking her dog in 2010 surfaced. It was like seeing a ghost from the past because nobody saw or heard of her since the press she did for In The Meantime in 2004.

Every time I play Steely Dan records I think of her because at some point in time, I think during the press interviews for In The Meantime, she mentioned she enjoyed cooking while jamming out to Steely Dan.

I hope she didn’t visit too often….Margate is a complete sh!thole
Really not her kind of place.

Thanks for the info...i remember those dog-walking pics, so many people didn't believe that was really her. weird. like she should walk around in stage clothes and make up with her hair done at every moment. people do age and dress comfortably in real life.

She loved Steely Dan. Gaucho was her favorite album by them.

--Lis

Thanks for the info on Margate. We're doing a self-guided tour of the UK in the summer -- I'll cross Margate off the list of cities to stop in.

I think sh!thole is a bit strong …Margate in recent years has had a lot of public money spent on rejuvenating the town.
It has The Turner gallery (not Tate as I said earlier) ..
However I doubt Christine would have spent much time there..I agree.
Maybe call in for fish and chips and walk along the prom with them..lovely.

I've had delicious fish and chips on the prom there myself, in recent years - although the seagulls were absolute menaces, watching our every move!

Lots of interesting antiques shops, which might have appealed, but some decidedly dodgy hipster ice cream...

Songbird Cottage

This cottage was named after “Songbird” written by Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac who was the previous owner. She kept all of her records and awards in this building before we lovingly transferred it into another one-bedroomed cottage. With all the modern comforts and touches including underfloor heating, full equipped kitchenette and a stunning sky-light over the shower. It has a king bed that can be turned into singles, a lounge and shower room. Another perfect option for the the bride or groom to get ready for the big day or perhaps parents of the bride or groom.

Sunbeams Room

A large beautiful light-filled room with two big windows over looking the garden and fields. This room has an interesting history previously being Fleetwood Mac - Christine McVie’s bedroom (rock royalty!) when she lived here before the current owners. Sharing a shower room with Chestnut Tree Room.”

Now I want fish and chips!

Me too, in paper…not a polystyrene tray..
salt and vinegar…
And a seaside promenade to walk along eating them.
Hahaha
Not today though, it’s grey miserable and cold..winters day.

we could watch the ships at sea, like Carnival Begin.. while eating Fish and Chips

I want it all
With calamari rings
A few pieces of cod
Fish and chips begin

Haddock and chips will do for me…

….with mushy peas please : )

And a barm cake…..

I’d love to stay here but my fiancée would go all Lorena Bobbitt on my ass if I even hinted at it.

It was only in reading an English detective novel recently that I learnt that mushy peas with fish and chips is a thing (a character refers to it as "Yorkshire caviar"). I think I'll stick with tartare sauce (or am I missing something amazing?). No argument with mashed peas on a meat pie though.

Tartare sauce very nice but a bit refined for chip shop fish n chips…
Better with brown HPsauce or chip shop curry sauce ….(tomato ketchup at a push)
Mushy peas are not mashed garden peas but a processed marrow fat pea..
Yum….where’s the nearest chip shop.

Just the salt and vinegar for me. Maybe a bit of curry sauce on the chips at a push.

Curry sauce on fish and chips. Mind blown again!

Perhaps it was England's inimitable cuisine that made Chris so desperate to go back to her homeland after The Dance.

Nah, 22+ years of bickering would do anyone in. Wouldn't it?

I think we’re done with fish n chips…
Let’s get down to the real tough question…
Cream first ?
Jam first ?
Definitely something Christine would have pondered …

Cream first for me.
Though I know Christine obviously liked her jam!!!

Hahaha…very good.

I would first butter the scone with cream, generously load with jam, then garnish with a final cream dollop if there's enough left over.

Chris might have preferred a butter cookie.

John did say in his Q&A that he missed the food. "Yes, the food!!" :p

it must be an acquired taste...

--Lis