Richard

Richard

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Husband, father, brother, son, great uncle. Enthusiastic, compassionate, inquisitive. Images mine, except where noted. 📍 Leicestershire UK

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes A mural on glass / a "fenestral"? In the new town of New Lubbesthorpe, west of Leicester, one of a pair of art installations at The Brook Centre, named after Frederick Brook Drummond, one of the landowners who bought up the area for redevelopment...

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Digging further, I believe the lands have long been held by the Drummond family and the Brook Centre is probably named after Capt. Eric Roderick Brook Drummond, one time Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, Fred's grandfather. The new bridge over the M1 is dedicated on a plaque as "Fred's Bridge".

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes A mural on glass / a "fenestral"? In the new town of New Lubbesthorpe, west of Leicester, one of a pair of art installations at The Brook Centre, named after Frederick Brook Drummond, one of the landowners who bought up the area for redevelopment...

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I'm a little intrigued to understand whether the fruitless forest equates to Leicester Forest, which is still reflected in the village names of Leicester Forest East and Leicester Forest West. "LFE", as it is locally known, straddles the M1 and is probably most well known for the motorway services!

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The glass art installation is by artist Martin Donlin. I have to say that the beginnings of the new town at New Lubbesthorpe are very satisfying. The open areas of the town are pretty and generous, there is already a new primary school, a town square, a couple of art installations and a care home.

Richard
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes A mural on glass / a "fenestral"? In the new town of New Lubbesthorpe, west of Leicester, one of a pair of art installations at The Brook Centre, named after Frederick Brook Drummond, one of the landowners who bought up the area for redevelopment...

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"Two freemen living in Bromkinsthorpe have 2 ploughlands and 5 ploughing oxen. These two freemen also hold 5 oxgangs of land. There are 40 acres of meadow. There is a barren forest, 6 furlongs long and 1 furlong wide. It used to be worth 50 shillings; now it is worth 4 pounds."

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I managed to find "Brandestorp" and the "silva infructuosa" in the text myself but I have to admit that loading the text into AI delivered all of the detail of the translation and the expansion from the mediæval abbreviations. I'm amazed it can read mediæval script so well!

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes A mural on glass / a "fenestral"? In the new town of New Lubbesthorpe, west of Leicester, one of a pair of art installations at The Brook Centre, named after Frederick Brook Drummond, one of the landowners who bought up the area for redevelopment...

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Which turns out to be text from the Domesday book, describing the manors of 'Brandestorp' and 'Lupestor', otherwise known as Bromkinsthorpe and Lubbesthorpe. Bromkinsthorpe has since vanished from the map but New Lubbesthorpe is currently being built west of Leicester, between the M1 and the M69.

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What does it say in English? "Pagen holds from William 6 ploughlands of land. There are 7 oxherds in Lubbesthorpe. The land is enough for 4 ploughs. In demesne there are 2 ploughs, and 10 villagers and 6 smallholders who have them...

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes A mural on glass / a "fenestral"? In the new town of New Lubbesthorpe, west of Leicester, one of a pair of art installations at The Brook Centre, named after Frederick Brook Drummond, one of the landowners who bought up the area for redevelopment...

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Turning the image through 90 degrees, we can see some mediæval Latin on display ... on the side of a Sainsbury's Local in a modern town! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuotes

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"I think we've got some wrapping paper in the wardrobe." Turns out, we've got a ton of wrapping paper in the wardrobe. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPaper

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Book craft at mum's care home: a bunch of hedgehogs, a cash register and some vases on top of the baby grand. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPaper #dementia #stayingalive 🎶

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One of the things that I feel would help is having at least a few 30-minute free parking slots on a street. Almost everywhere, it is impossible to even pause in a safe place without there being a parking payment due.

Richard
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The clamp down on on-street parking pushes people into car parks, fuelling the problem. Without some change, motoring is coming to an end and consequently popping into town is also coming to an end.

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A printed email dated 7 April 2004, found slipped between some furniture as I was clearing part of mum's house today; clearly a time when I at least half trusted her to do a System Restore on her new Windows XP computer. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPaper #dementia

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Going quietly mad this evening, if you don't mind. In memory of Dudley Moore... tesco tescis tescit tescimus tescitis tescunt And (what came to my mind just now) pizza pizzam pizzae pizzae pizza.

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HAD to watch the ITV News about Reform UK but OMG please can somebody teach Peston and Bradby both to read full sentences rather than one staccato word at a time.

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I'm often encouraged to think more creatively, so #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpaque I don't know about you but I can't see a thing through that wall.

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Robert Saunders
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Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

Richard
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Ruin a book by adding a word: The Little Prince Albert

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Ruin a book by adding a word: The Failed Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

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It made me think how wonderful it would be to have a screening of a film with an orchestra busy sawing away under the screen. (Hard work, I expect, especially for Ben Hur!) It seemed, for a moment, quite magic how such music is constructed from complementary phrases played together by a team.

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Matthew Stewart
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Poetry publishers will tell you 99% of sales occur within three months of a collection's launch. That's why I'm stunned to find that sales of Whatever You Do, Just Don't have gone through the roof this year, all thanks to Bluesky. Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

Richard
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What did Esther Rantzen ever do for us? Entertainment, Investigative Journalism, Rear Seatbelts, Organ Donation, Safer Playgrounds, Childline, Silverline, and worked hard to try to bring assisted dying into the UK, to name but a few. RIP to the Queen of Television journalism.

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Thank you to everyone who has been part of #7up, thank you for sharing some insight into how you've got on. Although we won't see you in seven years time, good luck. #70up

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Currently wondering which of the (many) guys in #70up Hegseth would consider real man enough for the US Army. Thank Goodness for being British!

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The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.