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Poem - Miri it is while sumer i-last With foulës song Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Foulës in the frith, The fishës in the flod Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Westron wynde, when wylt thow blow The smalle rayne downe can rayne? Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy.… Blog entry 5 years 6 weeks
Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US Blog entry 5 years 6 weeks
Poem - The Last Time Blog entry 5 years 8 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 9 weeks
Quote - Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Thou art no home, no rest to me. I take my ship and travel on till I a better worl Blog entry 5 years 24 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 26 weeks
It's good for the soul to be responsible for something or someone Blog entry 5 years 34 weeks
POINT ME TO HEAVEN WHEN THE FINAL CHAPTER COMES | Terry Pratchett | Mail on Sunday, 2 August 2009 Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
The BBC series of Quatermass and the Pit is up on the iPlayer for the next few months Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
1912 | Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
ALBA a whole country in 3 minutes Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
Quote - Learning to fill your empty places... Blog entry 5 years 43 weeks
Quote - The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money Blog entry 5 years 45 weeks
Renewing the Water Bounds at Truro.... Blog entry 5 years 48 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 51 weeks
Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) Blog entry 6 years 10 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 10 weeks
Winnol Weather.... Blog entry 6 years 11 weeks
Word(s) of the day: “scréachóg reilige” - ‘screecher of the cemetery’; Irish name for the barn owl. Also “cailleach-oidhche ghea Blog entry 6 years 14 weeks
Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" Blog entry 6 years 22 weeks
Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” Blog entry 6 years 24 weeks
Nature - at Hawthorn Time Blog entry 6 years 27 weeks
Sample of women's suffrage petition presented #onthisday 1884 Blog entry 6 years 28 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 28 weeks
'Apricity’ the warmth of the sun on a chilly day Blog entry 6 years 28 weeks
Amazing pumpkins for RNLI Blog entry 6 years 29 weeks
27 October 2017 - This Winter Palace clock was stopped 100yrs ago when Bolsheviks seized power - started again Blog entry 6 years 29 weeks
May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace Blog entry 6 years 29 weeks
Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes Blog entry 6 years 29 weeks
The #FREE #knitting pattern for the #EUbeanie + #pussyhat Blog entry 6 years 29 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 33 weeks
Torschlusspanik - options are narrowing, that the boat is leaving Blog entry 6 years 42 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 2 weeks
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 25 weeks
When I wander | Dementia: The Journey Ahead Blog entry 7 years 30 weeks
Don't look for the flaws as you go through life Blog entry 7 years 31 weeks
It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you Blog entry 7 years 45 weeks
Sea Fever | I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer Blog entry 8 years 8 weeks
Since 1 Jan 1950 RPI has risen average 5.4% a year. £1 then equal to £31.39 now. On CPI rise is 4.9% a year. £1 then equals £23. Blog entry 8 years 22 weeks
Since 2001 no ruling party has ever had the votes of more than 1 in 4 registered voters in a British General Election Blog entry 8 years 28 weeks
Transfield rebrands refugee torture.... Blog entry 8 years 32 weeks
Adam Johnson on Twitter: "meanwhile, NYT has gall to insist Russia acting "unilaterally" w/o consulting NATO states Blog entry 8 years 32 weeks
Evgeny Lebedev's "I agree with Putin" Blog entry 8 years 32 weeks
Christopher Miller on Twitter: "A giddy Japanese prime minister meets Vladimir Putin Blog entry 8 years 32 weeks
Shoaib M Khan on Twitter: "Lord Bingham: "Which of these rights would we wish to discard? Are any of them trivial or unnecessary Blog entry 8 years 32 weeks