Thursday, 25 February 2021

Favourite Writing - Brazilian Adventure

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Museu do Ipiranga - São Paulo (Photo: Nanahbhz) 'Victory has got a half-nelson on Liberty from behind. Liberty is giving away about half...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

The Orangery Garden 1998 - 2012

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The Orangery was developed from an carpentry shop where they made the stairs and window frames for the houses being built in Wandle Road in ...

The Orangery 1998 - 2012

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The Orangery was originally a carpentry shop where they made the stairs and window frames for the houses built in Wandle Road in the 1890s. ...
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...