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Lee

@leemervin

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Lee
@leemervin Feb 11, 2018, 11:14 PM UTC

Moon Music

Image - Photograph By John Adams Whipple and James Wallace Black- Date 1857-60-The Metroplitan Museum of Art Since ancient times our nearest neighbour the moon has inspired countless painters, poets…

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@leemervin Feb 10, 2018, 10:37 AM UTC

The rediscovery of a masterpiece

image - wikicommons I first set eyes on this magnificent painting years ago when I saw a fascinating documentary about it’s loss, rediscovery and restoration. It was love at first sight for me - I wa…

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@leemervin Feb 8, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

This track may change your life (a bit)!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Jimi-Hendrix/dp/B00ISUCSNG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1518076338&sr=1-1&keywords=Blues+Jimi+hendrix I have long considered myself to be a committed…

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@leemervin Feb 7, 2018, 6:42 AM UTC

Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs

The first page of Shakespeare's Richard II, printed in the First Folio of 1623 Current location Folger Shakespeare Library Accession number STC 22273 Fo.1 No.68 Source/Photographer Folger Shakespeare…

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@leemervin Feb 5, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

Image- my copy of Little Boy Lost - Heinemann Educational Books The 2nd World War has recently ended and Hilary Wainwright has travelled to France to meet Jean, a small child who may or may not be hi…

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@leemervin Feb 4, 2018, 12:12 PM UTC

Massaman Curry - A meal fit for a King

Massaman curry is a highly flavoursome Thai dish. So flavoursome in fact that Kings have written poetry about it. Well one king anyway - these lines were written by King Rama ll in the early 1800s as…

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@leemervin Feb 3, 2018, 11:29 PM UTC

The Jagular

This is Myshka, also known as The Myshkanaut by those not into the whole brevity thing, and The Naut by those who are. She is pictured on one of her favourite perches - the top of the bedroom door wh…

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@leemervin Feb 3, 2018, 10:23 AM UTC

How Chicago was elevated by 14ft- all in the name of hygiene

image wiki commons, Chicago Historical Society, Author Edward Mendel I learnt an amazing fact last night about the history of sewage! One of those facts that are so very strange that they make you sm…

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@leemervin Feb 2, 2018, 8:03 AM UTC

Who the Diddley?

This is the Bo Diddley Beat - you’ll recognise it in oodles of songs - from Buddy Holly’s Not Fade Away to Bowie’s Panic in Detroit *, through to George Michaels Faith and beyond. But who was Bo Didd…

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@leemervin Jan 31, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

This week I am mainly eating lentils

When I became a nearly - vegan ( I still eat fish and occasionally (though I try not to) cheese). I found to my surprise that I was eating a larger variety of more flavoursome food than ever before.…

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