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- William Maxwell: Gasping Again
- Hail the Shale
- I Should Have Known...
- The Met Office Does Its Bit for Global Warming
- A Pretty Decent Band
- Keats and Chekhov - Mentshn
- War Record
- Wurzel News
- Good News for the Steam Age
- 'Realism, or what we see as realism'
- A Garden Day
- Under Threat From Nature
- Dan Brown, Oxfam Star
- James Burton's Sweet Guitar
- Not So Good News?
- Good News
- Inglourious
- A Day Well Spent
- Those Magnificent Men...
- And Shall Trelawny Die?
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled...
- A Heartening Survival
- Childhood Reading
- Tove Jansson
- An Aurelian Writes...
- What To Say?
- So, Farewell Then...
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About Me
- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Watt an achievement.
ReplyDeleteI heard it was 139 mph?? Bet it didn't make as much noise as my kettle.
ReplyDeleteWhat is more amazing is that the record had stood for 103 years. Whoever drove the 1903 version must have been a brave man.
ReplyDeletePerhaps MI6 might consider purchasing the car. think how useful that much steam would be for surreptitiously opening envelopes.
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