Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Stockbridge Gardens Open for the Church 2020

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Stockbridge Parish Magazine July 2020  Stockbridge opens its gardens for the Church each year, with the east and west ends taking it in turn...
Sunday, 15 November 2020

Atlantic Empress collision with Aegean Captain 1979

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Atlantic Empress On 19th July 1979, the Atlantic Empress , a VLCC of 128,000 grt, fully laden with crude oil from Ras Tanura, was sailing at...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Seawise University (1972)

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  Seawise University ablaze The Seawise University was the renamed former Cunard liner  RMS Queen Elizabeth , which at the end of her cruisi...
Friday, 13 November 2020

John Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer (1816)

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  Rembrandt - Aristotle With A Bust of Homer Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,     And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; ...
Sunday, 6 September 2020

Favourite Gardens - Old Bladbean Stud Garden Sept 2020

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  Old Bladbean Stud Garden is a most unusual place, created by one woman from a rough smallholding on ground high on the Kent downs from 200...
Sunday, 30 August 2020

Is the Church of England Intent on Killing Off the Parish Church?

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The importance of our parish churches to their communities seems to be under attack in several ways but particularly, though shortfalls in f...
Saturday, 22 August 2020

Old Swan House Garden in August 2020

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  The summerhouse is the focal point of the garden and at the same time provides one of the best viewpoints. It is also the main spot for te...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

On Society in an Age of Populism - Edmund Burke

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How did Burke get it right about the ultimate course of events in France — and, by extension, so many subsequent revolutions that aimed to e...