Press the Bell

When I was a child we had breakfast, lunch and tea in the dining room.

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I’ve Got a Little List

I went to The White Swan this morning thanks to Angela and Edward’s comment yesterday and on the way saw the Bondgate Tower.

Bear Arms

The Ursine Appreciation Society have lodged a complaint about yesterday’s post alleging that the portrayal of a bear mauling Mr Hugh Glass misrepresents bears and has undone their work to promote bears through brands Pooh and Rupert. Today’s post redresses the balance.

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Winter in Madrid

CJ Sansom is an author who has found his metier writing historical whodunnit mysteries set in Tudor England with Shardlake as his hunchback lawyer hero. Maybe he chose a lawyer as before he became a full time author he practised as a solicitor.

The Jacobite Peerage

The Jacobite peerages are the seventh division of the peerage – if you don’t know about the other six, read yesterday’s post.

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Lords-and-ladies

Like rather an unimaginative schoolmaster I am going to start with a bit of revision.

The Green Team

The Conservative Party has hit electoral pay dirt by delaying the transition to electric cars and the replacement of gas boilers.