Thursday, 28 November 2019

Favourite Paintings - Peter Breughel Netherlandisch Proverbs

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Peter Brueghel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs I am sometimes given to complaining that modern paintings seem to have no meaning or ...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

Favourite Paintings - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Peter Breughel the Elder

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder W.H. Auden,  Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never w...
Monday, 30 September 2019

Some Inadequate Words on Grief

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I am not able to write with any authority on grief as I have never experienced it. But others have and do. Instead, I often give friends wh...

Do You Understand Climate Change?

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Katrin Juliane Meissner 27 September at 21:49 With so many people hitting the streets for climate strike and all the recent attack...
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Thursday, 8 August 2019

For the Love of Dogs

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I have long been troubled by our attitude to dogs, but it's heresy to question extreme dog-centric behaviour and I content myself with ...
Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Favourite Paintings - The Parisian Apartment

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“The dark second-floor apartment of the house in Market Square was shot through each day by the naked heat of summer: the silence of th...
Monday, 22 July 2019

Luleen Wanklyn nee Handcock - 1946 - 2019

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Lu at Nick and Jay Jay's wedding 1975 http://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/07/obituary-lu-wanklyn-1945-2019.html?m=1

Favourite Churches - Sherborne Abbey

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I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Sherborne Abbey twice and marvel at its beauty while staying with  Charlie Skipwith at Chet...
Friday, 5 July 2019

UK Club's 150th Anniversary Dinner July 2019

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The UK Club's 150th Anniversary Dinner UK Club 150th Anniversary Dinner. Photo by Kumar The UK Club held a 150th Anniversary d...
Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Litchfield Flower Festival 2019

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Over the weekend of 28th - 30th June 2019 a remarkable Flower Festival was held at St James the Less, Litchfield that included tabl...