Yesterday I completed my trek from France to Spain across a WW2 Escape Line to commemorate the 80th year since the Great Escape. So far I’ve raised £29,837.17 inc Gift Aid for @stgemmashospice. Can you get me over £30k before I get back to Blighty🇬🇧
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It is the 400th anniversary of the fall of de La Vieuville, Louis XIII’s favourite, captain of the Scotch Guards, the begetters of the Lost Clan after the Battle of Pavia in 1525, which is why people in Gurrio say aye instead of si, wear tartan, and play the bagpipes.
Widespread alarm at the failure to provide coasters for Barbara Pym’s writing table is happening. I’m afraid I don’t care for them. Red wine stains on a table top are to me Bacchus’ Kisses. Here is my own. #coastergate
If you didn’t love Mark Knopfler already his book on #DesertIslandDiscs was Penelope Fitzgerald’s fictional account of the troubles of Novalis, The Blue Flower.