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on country houses
next time you visitask where from the money stemsplantations, mines, mills ~ n.b. Wow! Look at that beautiful house! Wonderful gardens and lakes. Magnificent gates! The estate wall runs for miles. Wonderful paintings. 1642-1660 the English Revolution that utterly failed and we’re still paying for that failure. CLP 19/12/2022 →
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on Beale Street
camera wobblestrolley catches tourist beatdrunk? it ain’t me babe ~ CLP 29/09/2022 →
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on time
where blue suede shoes trodthey long since left the caféno scent left to track ~ n.b. The nice thing about The Arcade Restaurant is that, apart from a modest postcard, the proprietors don’t trade off the reputation of one of their many happy customers. More importantly the café has been up and running for 102 →
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on time
heavily moatedNorman Conquest castle sitemonarchic stasis ~ n.b. Some argue that England has never recovered from this military land-grab and its top-down government. There was nothing civilising about the Roman dictatorship, nor the Norman invasion. Our revolution of 1642 – 1660 ultimately failed. Look at us! We still have unelected Lords involved in setting legislation →
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on Ukraine xxv
escaping the Nazispeople of Russia scorched earthnow their soldiers harry Ukraineas William The Bastard did in the Northso Putin does to the southhistory teaches us nothingit is but a mirror ~ n.b. What is the point of this destruction and slaughter? Where is the glory? What kind of peace does this lead to? CLP 31/05/2022 →
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