Otter Things

There may be a few otters depicted in churches but they are usually relatively modern; like this window in Newcastle Cathedral. It references a legend that St Cuthbert prayed standing up to his neck in the North Sea at night and in the morning was warmed up on the shore by otters.

Going Dutch

Bertie spent a large part of yesterday with Lucy and her dogs.

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Palms for Oblivion

I watch two of my investments more closely than the others.

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Herts and Sole

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. This month in the SE of England it’s an Indian summer and yesterday Bertie and I went to Hertfordshire.

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Archipelagic Void

South Korean architect, Minsuk Cho, has created Archipelagic Void outside The Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. I went to see it yesterday.

Garden News

Like Frank Sinatra, regrets, I have a few and one was ordering Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Varigatum’ in January last year.

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Winter

I have read a lot of first hand accounts, not exhaustively, of European history 1918 – 1990.

Atishoo!

I read The Lord of The Rings and associated Mordor’s black volcanic plain with Morden at the end of the black Northern Line – somewhere to be avoided, at least by me as I am not a brave Hobbit.