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February 21 -- Feast of Saint Robert Southwell |
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Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts" |
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In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96 |
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Matters because involves standards, rules & integrity in public office.. once those values erode - can ever expect to get back? |
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Quote - "Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides" |
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Feast of St Piala, patron saint of Phillack, near Hayle |
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Cornish Feast of St Erth (also known as Erc), patron saint of St Erth near Hayle |
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Nearly There / Nearly Home Trees |
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Poem - For the Fallen |
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Poem - In Flanders Fields |
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Quote - "So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge" |
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Quote - "My mission is to seek beauty, find humour, and bring joy" |
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Word of the day is 'podsnappery' (19th century, from Dickens): 'insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction' |
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Pleiades: Japanese Festival of lanthorns, celebrated about November |
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3D Render England | Geological Map 1957 |
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3D Render Cornwall | Geological Map 1957 |
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Quote - Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday, And All Is Well |
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December 12th: Feast Day of St Bugga of Thanet |
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October 24th: Feast of St Magloire of Dol |
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ |
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What a stunning morning! |
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Enjoyed Giri/Haji |
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Quote - Men who find themselves in receipt of unasked-for luck become either benign, believing themselves unworthy, or dangerous |
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Poem - Days of Kindness |
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Word(s) from other languages... |
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Cottage at Kynance Cove |
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Protect ALL of the people from the will of SOME of the people. Democracy not electoral dictatorship, majority rule within framew |
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The power of a written constitution.... |
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Poem - Ech day me comëth tydinges thre |
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Poem - Somer is y-comen in |
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Poem - Miri it is while sumer i-last With foulës song |
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Poem - Foulës in the frith, The fishës in the flod |
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Poem - Westron wynde, when wylt thow blow The smalle rayne downe can rayne? |
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The Lie of the Land |
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The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy.… |
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Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US |
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Poem - The Last Time |
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Quote - You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting |
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1823 "The Great October Gale" |
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1823 January 15 to 24 A very great fall of snow |
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1817 February 8 - the Northern Lights appears in St Ives |
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Burns Day |
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Lughnasa, Calan Awst the Calends of August |
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Allantide |
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Beautiful sunrise on the beach at Longrock, Cornwall. |
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Quote - Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Thou art no home, no rest to me. I take my ship and travel on till I a better worl |
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Quote - Inevitably. When you’re asked to buy a pig in a poke, first question should be “why does this pig have to be inside... |
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