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Brockham Bonfire

Brockham Bonfire "Remember, remember the Fifth of November." Early November is bonfire season in England, commemorating the discovery and thwarting of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Sussex and Surrey, south of London, host the...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 31, 2022 5:49 PM

The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter | The New Yorker

The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter | The New Yorker Review of a new book about Beatrix Potter. In 2018, our family visited the gallery in the office of Potter's lawyer husband, in Hawkshead, Lancashire, in the Lake District. "In...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 3, 2022 8:32 PM

The James Herriot centenary: a vet who changed his profession

The James Herriot centenary: a vet who changed his profession - Telegraph "...there's a phenomenon known as "the Herriot effect" that's blamed for the huge increase in popularity of the career as a vet which started in the mid-Seventies. Back...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 16, 2019 8:10 AM

Best of H. E. Bates : Internet Archive

Best of H. E. Bates : Internet Archive Short, picturesque stories by the chronicler of the English countryside. Includes five of the six Bates stories adapted for radio by the BBC....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 16, 2016 1:01 AM

Downton Abbey meets the Flintstones: England's Abandoned Rock Houses | Messy Nessy Chic Messy Nessy Chic

Downton Abbey meets the Flintstones: England's Abandoned Rock Houses | Messy Nessy Chic Did these centuries-old houses, built in the rocks near Kinver in Staffordshire, inspire J. R. R. Tolkien's notion of Hobbit holes?...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 1, 2013 12:37 AM