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I managed a tour of the grounds between downpours, to the musical accompaniment of Freckleton Brass Band, playing carols in the village. Found an early flowering northern camelia 🌸 Happy #WinterSolstice ✌️

Alan Bennett's diary, 15th December 2020.

Where are they now?
An occasional series.
Part 6:
Dominic Raab former Deputy PM & Foreign Sec.
Dom has had a tough time of it.😔
So using his proven business acumen, he has borrowed his mate Kevin’s van & successfully gone into the business of delivering parcels.

A relatable japanese word for today:
Tsundoku (積ん読)
The act of buying books and letting them pile up, unread.

Here’s a podcast about Oswald Mosley:

Took secret payments from dictators
Womaniser
Blamed immigrants for economic woes
Campaigned for repatriation
Isolationist, happy to leave E Europe to be conquered
Insisted on untrammelled personal power

Please listen here:

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THREAD/By November 1944, it would be fair to say that Londoners, along with most of the rest of the citizens of British towns and cities were distinctly war-weary having been under fire, on and off since September 1940. Hitler's latest weapon, the V-2 rocket had been dropping on London since...

Hello Bluesky 👋
Amazing how quickly you can find your old crowd from the other place ☺️