Successive British governments frittered away our soil growing tulips and pineapples, while Norway wisely built up a huge Sovereign Soil Fund, which means the entire population can now take every summer off and potter about in their gardens.
AI slop?
A nice reminder that the King has various styles of accommodation at the disposal of his brother, including both Sandringham and the UK's prison estate.
Also it was, and still is, reasonable to assume that Trump's connections with Epstein are far deeper than Mandelson's. The bet was that any scenario in which Epstein undid Mandelson would have undone Trump months or years earlier - in which case Mandelson could have been replaced in good time.
Obviously didn't go to Ghent for his holidays.
Henry Gear MM, Lancashire Fusiliers, II.A.53
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Here's the link: www.cwgc.org/find-records...
Peeney is in grave II.A.55 and Norris Benjamin Batley is next door in II.A.54.
Its the Cambrai East Military cemetery. The name on the right is Dominic Francis Peeney. The Commonwealth War Graves website has all the details and an excellent search facility.
Under the fish and over the water
Yes, very good.
Been thinking about 'CLAM' - with no joy so far. Pls retweet if you find the answer!
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
(Edward Thomas)
'Inermis' is definitely the more common here in the UK, but the thorned variety show up as ornamentals too - and very impressively armed they are. Whether they are planted by accident or design, I couldn't say.
Ah yes, Peace at her chillest.
It's beginning to look a lot like Giotto
Palazzo della Civilta, EUR, Rome
It's got a slight whiff of Mussolini about it, but none the worse for that.
And very brilliantly she played it, too.
One of Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads' monologues featured June Brown as an antique dealer who let Michelangelo's sketch of Adam's Sistine finger slip through her hands. In the story it sells for £10m, I think.
or Pontius Pilate
Completely perfect in a grotesquely distorted, anatomically terrifying sort of way.
Mum's the word!
Nothing common about that.
Purbeck marble war memorials must have been all the more eyecatching when nearly every public building was a sooty brown-black.
It's a wonderful photo - the bus conductor saluting, the clock showing 11:01 - where are they? what have they gathered to watch (or listen to, if you're stuck behind a bus)?
It's like that time - about 20 years ago - when dangerous dogs started attacking people all over the country. I never did understand how they planned that.
Valet, or 'valet'?
It's never struck me before, but would he really be painting the hat while the model is posing? Better (cheaper) to paint it on a mannequin while she's away.
Taken today in Bath Botanical Gardens - Tulip tree, fern-leaf beech, and an unusual xCrataemespilus.
In the Southwest UK, the autumn colour is exceptional after a long, dry summer. Liriodendrons in particular are vivid gold. Also Liquidambar, Acer saccharum, Parrotia persica. Poor year for Quercus palustris.
Their Royal Highnesses, surely? It's a royal dukedom, after all.