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27 October 2017 - This Winter Palace clock was stopped 100yrs ago when Bolsheviks seized power - started again Blog entry 6 years 29 weeks
Amazing pumpkins for RNLI Blog entry 6 years 28 weeks
'Apricity’ the warmth of the sun on a chilly day 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
Sample of women's suffrage petition presented #onthisday 1884 Blog entry 6 years 28 weeks
Nature - at Hawthorn Time Blog entry 6 years 27 weeks
Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” Blog entry 6 years 23 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(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
Winnol Weather.... Blog entry 6 years 11 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
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
Anyone for a Noyau? Blog entry 6 years 1 week
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: "spring tide" - tide occurring around the time of a full or new moon Blog entry 5 years 50 weeks
Quote - This was before Bill Gates... Blog entry 5 years 50 weeks
Quote - Umberto Eco on Macintosh vs. DOS... Blog entry 5 years 50 weeks
Renewing the Water Bounds at Truro.... Blog entry 5 years 48 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
Quote - Learning to fill your empty places... Blog entry 5 years 43 weeks
ALBA a whole country in 3 minutes Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
1912 | Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE 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
POINT ME TO HEAVEN WHEN THE FINAL CHAPTER COMES | Terry Pratchett | Mail on Sunday, 2 August 2009 Blog entry 5 years 39 weeks
It's good for the soul to be responsible for something or someone Blog entry 5 years 33 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
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 - 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
Poem - The Last Time Blog entry 5 years 7 weeks
Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US Blog entry 5 years 6 weeks
The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy.… Blog entry 5 years 6 weeks
Poem - Westron wynde, when wylt thow blow The smalle rayne downe can rayne? Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Foulës in the frith, The fishës in the flod Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Miri it is while sumer i-last With foulës song Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Somer is y-comen in Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Poem - Ech day me comëth tydinges thre Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
The power of a written constitution.... Blog entry 4 years 42 weeks
Protect ALL of the people from the will of SOME of the people. Democracy not electoral dictatorship, majority rule within framew Blog entry 4 years 37 weeks
Word(s) from other languages... Blog entry 4 years 32 weeks
Poem - Days of Kindness Blog entry 4 years 32 weeks
Quote - Men who find themselves in receipt of unasked-for luck become either benign, believing themselves unworthy, or dangerous Blog entry 4 years 29 weeks
Enjoyed Giri/Haji Blog entry 4 years 27 weeks
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ Blog entry 3 years 31 weeks
October 24th: Feast of St Magloire of Dol Blog entry 3 years 29 weeks
December 12th: Feast Day of St Bugga of Thanet Blog entry 3 years 29 weeks
Quote - Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday, And All Is Well Blog entry 3 years 29 weeks
Pleiades: Japanese Festival of lanthorns, celebrated about November Blog entry 3 years 28 weeks
Word of the day is 'podsnappery' (19th century, from Dickens): 'insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction' Blog entry 3 years 28 weeks