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Happy 400th Birthday to John Aubrey draycotestatehistory.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/j...
Also - the full English breakfast, in the days when you didn't have to pre-order. Just don't try to take a rubber-ended pencil in . . .
Do we have to do Homage?
I have started to post a mini tribute to John Aubrey, b. 12th March 1626, on my website. Should be finished in plenty of time for the anniversary. John Aubrey b. 12th March 1626.
The bread and wine are excellent
Not the first time Devizes has had trouble with cheese. That's why Wiltshire folk are known as moonrakers.
Not the only orange triumphal arch in the news . . . . . .
Crikey - just watched the video that Katie was talking about. I am also not one for heights, these days. In need of a stiff drink after that.
Looks like the Earl of Southampton.
Not too far from his good work at St Clement Danes.
Shouldn't he be the Mayor?
Any mention of the Lords of the Manor - the Tylney Longs - from Wanstead House?
You should see the Rose garden
Owen looking as evil in his photo as he was in character - and quite a resemblance to Wagner. Appropriate.
Yes indeed - Leah Williamson.
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Any similar hope for Horse Chestnut rust?
GAC - the Government Art Collection should have this.
For services to warming pans?
His French must have improved. It was pretty shaky when they first met . . .
I am getting on with the traced items from Wanstead House on my website - both furniture and pictures. Still a long way to go, before it's complete. I haven't separated out the other estates, but will do so soon. draycotestatehistory.wordpress.com/the-other-es...
Just found out on R4 Today that Jonathan Agnew, from TMS, plays euphonium. I can feel a collaboration coming on . . . .
He got a church in Liverpool for that. I used to drive past it every day.
If it's like Coming of Age celebrations on Wiltshire Estates then the beef didn't have long to live . . . . .
There's a good account of Osman Pasha's surrender, after Plevna, and portrait photos of Alexander II at the front, some of the Grand Dukes and (I think) of Skobelev.
Diary of a Soldier Diplomat and With the Russians in Peace and War. Both should be available on Abebooks or something similar. Fred Wellesley delivered a message to the Tsar from Disraeli and the Queen, at the front, that they couldn't take Constantinople. See Charmley, Splendid Isolation.
Have you read the biography of the Military Attache Col. the Hon. Frederick Wellesley?
How is your Elvish?