Thursday, 21 January 2021

Why Conspiracy Theories Survive the Failure of their Prophecies

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QAnon sticker available from Amazon John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead and has been dead for some time. In July 1999, the small plane he was travel...
Sunday, 17 January 2021

Favourite Gardens - Redenham Park

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Redenham Park Redenham Park, west of Andover, is an C18th Georgian house built for the Pollen family (Richard Pollen, was an old friend from...
Sunday, 10 January 2021

The Mystery of the Plaque and the Severed Head

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  The Mystery Plaque This plaque, which stands on a table on the loggia at Old Swan House, lead to the following correspondence between Guy ...
Monday, 28 December 2020

John Le Carre remembered by Matthew d'Ancona December 2020

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David Cornwell 1931 - 2020 John le Carré was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that fol...
Friday, 25 December 2020

Favourite Poems - 'The Gate of the Year'

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THE GATE OF THE YEAR And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”  A...
Friday, 18 December 2020

Pushing the Boundaries by Michael Grey

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One Apus coming into Kobe Pushing the boundaries Following the astonishing sight of the  ONE Apus  arriving in the port of Kobe, there has b...
Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Stockbridge at Christmas 2020

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                                                         The pods at the Greyhound on the Test Stockbridge is dressed better than ever for C...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Nicky Boyle 1946 - 1997

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Nicky with Rosemary Martin. Background - Dodie and Pug Wallis at Hill Farm. Nicky (Lady Nichola) Boyle was a close friend throughout my teen...