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Quote - "The world is made up of our differences"’ Blog entry 45 weeks 5 days
Quote - "Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all"’ Blog entry 1 year 4 weeks
Quote - "impulse towards good involves choice and is complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideo’" Blog entry 1 year 20 weeks
Quote - "We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’" Blog entry 1 year 32 weeks
Thin cakes called Crumpits, made from seeds of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass) Blog entry 1 year 37 weeks
Quote - "True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough" Blog entry 2 years 3 weeks
Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts" Blog entry 2 years 24 weeks
In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96 Blog entry 2 years 24 weeks
Matters because involves standards, rules & integrity in public office.. once those values erode - can ever expect to get back? Blog entry 2 years 51 weeks
Quote - "Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides" Blog entry 3 years 4 weeks
Poem - For the Fallen Blog entry 3 years 24 weeks
Poem - In Flanders Fields Blog entry 3 years 24 weeks
Quote - "So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge" Blog entry 3 years 25 weeks
Quote - "My mission is to seek beauty, find humour, and bring joy" Blog entry 3 years 25 weeks
Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US Blog entry 5 years 3 weeks
Poem - The Last Time Blog entry 5 years 5 weeks
Sample of women's suffrage petition presented #onthisday 1884 Blog entry 6 years 25 weeks
A thousand acres of London's super-prime real estate is owned by 5 aristocratic families, the Crown & the Church Blog entry 6 years 25 weeks
'Apricity’ the warmth of the sun on a chilly day Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
Amazing pumpkins for RNLI Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
27 October 2017 - This Winter Palace clock was stopped 100yrs ago when Bolsheviks seized power - started again Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
The #FREE #knitting pattern for the #EUbeanie + #pussyhat Blog entry 6 years 26 weeks
Word of the day: "chime" - collective noun for wrens; the wren is also known as "druid" (Welsh), "little king" (Dutch) & "jenny" Blog entry 6 years 31 weeks
Torschlusspanik - options are narrowing, that the boat is leaving Blog entry 6 years 40 weeks
Brexit | Hard to take issue with a single word of the first Evening Standard editorial under its new editor, George Osborne Blog entry 7 years 15 hours
Please use your power to protect others today if you can do so safely - What to do if you are witnessing harassment Blog entry 7 years 23 weeks
When I wander | Dementia: The Journey Ahead Blog entry 7 years 27 weeks
Don't look for the flaws as you go through life Blog entry 7 years 29 weeks
It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you Blog entry 7 years 43 weeks
Nature - at Hawthorn Time Blog entry 6 years 24 weeks
Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” Blog entry 6 years 21 weeks
Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" Blog entry 6 years 19 weeks
Quote - You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting Blog entry 5 years 6 weeks
Quote - Inevitably. When you’re asked to buy a pig in a poke, first question should be “why does this pig have to be inside... Blog entry 5 years 24 weeks
It's good for the soul to be responsible for something or someone Blog entry 5 years 31 weeks
POINT ME TO HEAVEN WHEN THE FINAL CHAPTER COMES | Terry Pratchett | Mail on Sunday, 2 August 2009 Blog entry 5 years 36 weeks
The BBC series of Quatermass and the Pit is up on the iPlayer for the next few months Blog entry 5 years 37 weeks
1912 | Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE Blog entry 5 years 37 weeks
ALBA a whole country in 3 minutes Blog entry 5 years 37 weeks
Quote - Learning to fill your empty places... Blog entry 5 years 40 weeks
Quote - The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money Blog entry 5 years 43 weeks
Renewing the Water Bounds at Truro.... Blog entry 5 years 46 weeks
Almost two-fifths (38%) of particulate matter comes from domestic wood burners and open fires, used by 7.5% of homes Blog entry 5 years 49 weeks
Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) Blog entry 6 years 8 weeks
Word(s) of the day: "rionnach maoim"...'the moving shadows cast by clouds on moorland on a sunny, windy day'. Such compressed el Blog entry 6 years 8 weeks
Winnol Weather.... Blog entry 6 years 8 weeks