It's one way of drawing a line of some sort after Hamas murdered 3 Brits and 11 Americans along with another 1300.
We can't punish everyone who participated, but the leaders of such a massacre ought not escape.
What now? I can't imagine anything good happening soon.
Fab present. Happy birthday
I read the Israelis finally got the remaining terrorist leader who planned and executed the 7th Oct 2023 massacres:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-mosques-announce-death-hamas-military-leader-after-israeli-targeting-claim-2026-05-16/
Maybe the location? Or the layout? Certainly the ballroom might be perfect for a piano.
If you get the magazine 'Country Life' in the States, the latest has a property section of places for sale in Cornwall/Devon/ Somerset/Dorset.
Simply spectacular homes, ignore the cost ðĪŠ.
This one caught my eye, the house, the location, land and views:
https://bluebookagency.com/properties/redlap-house-2/
And it's on the market with its 'gatehouse':
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14609813/
Wtg Waxwings are winter visitors but I still have to see them.
Your gnomes look right at home
Thanks for posting this WTG.
Whitby, Jarrow(Bede etc) are local history to me so very interesting.
Speaking the poem I struggle to find the rhyme though.
Can you imagine how she felt reading it online in her office, the excitement!
I've held older Egyptian writing on papyrus and it's difficult, even strange, imagining the writer and how it survived over 2000 years. Even turning the pages of an illustrated bible from 1400 gives a reflective feeling similar to looking up at the stars.
I find our history fascinating, the bloody struggle that was life for the vast majority, and the need for meaning, for god.
In the UK Christianity was a cult the Romans initially brought, but the Saxons effectively removed it from the East (& most) of Britain.
This poem dates from the beginnings of the celtic form of Christianity that came via Ireland/Scotland with Aiden of Iona, who settled in Lindesfarne (Holy Island) in the early 600's and spread the word southwards, founding notable abbeys at Tyneside Jarrow, Monkwearmouth, Durham, Hartlepool, Whitby, and York.
York became the Northern centre that Canterbury was in the South.
This was only a few years after Augustine (I think from the Roman Gregorian? form) settled in Canterbury circa 600. There's still a bit of the very old Canterbury church, a wall, to be seen. There's a very old oak stave wall at Greenstead too, from 900AD, oldest wooden building in Europe and a very attractive church.
However to see one of the very first, still mostly original, most complete, stone churches extant from this great missionary era, visit Escomb near to Durham.
Not much to it but has a great feel. Shows the simple room/building built for worship back then, built 670AD.
But I digress
We are now the elder generation of our families
though we have couple of older cousins and I have an older sister.
It is a milestone
Our friends like us hopefully have a decade or two
A lovely book containing amusing and thoughtful poems that will delight any gardener.
If you can find it! I've failed to find another copy to buy worldwide...
My 50p thrift shop copy looked near mint in its dust jacket, but on opening the book 
the 1994 spine binding is terrible quality. Cracked, repaired, come away from the hard cover again, a page loose. Close it and it looks fine again
Interesting article, shows how we are still learning so much about our history.
Houses are virtually all freehold while apartments still generally leasehold though there are new laws. Of course buy a house if you can afford one in your location.
From memory...
Lease lengths, are often 150 years but occasionally 999years. You may buy out the lease to own the property but it is relatively expensive on top of a mortgage, and usually everyone in the building needs to agree to buy.
Lease holders have to pay a yearly smallish ground rent to owner.
Maintenence firms charge the earth if residents won't manage things themselves.
Once a lease goes under 90 years you are best buying some years in order to sell.
Why 90? No idea.
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https://www.dailymail.com/home/index.html
Largest circulation U.K. newspaper with U.S. section
Don't know. Maybe try Hello magazine site?
Wisteria can be a vigorous pain... I'd drill into and add poison to the very short stump.
@Steve-Miller, sad losing those. I recall asking a professional gardener how to check if unsure a bare branch and whole tree was dead.
He simply snapped each near the end then nearer the trunk. Dry is dead, sappy or green alive.
We all like different styles, my favourite is large colonial bungalow.
Part of the liking is down to the hot sunny weather outside and cool refuge of their interiors, partly the architectural styles, partly the llocation & lifestyle.
Now as for the eye-wateringly high prices, well they really are an investment because you are paying for acres of potential high rise development land rather than the building.
https://www.mudah.my/residential-bungalow-land-at-western-road-72081sf-facing-mainroad-113630391.htm
I'd buy both, yup; win the Eurolottery, live in the fully airconditioned one while doing up the other(which internally is very like my in-laws house nearby).
Do you think the neighbours sold their garden to have this built? Happens in London.
End up with nice houses but with no garden, and overlooking each other.
Last year MrsA and daughter#2 went to Amsterdam and now we have
Yes, maybe both, and what Big Al said about new tech & hobby words.
As for teaching...
