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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 8h

Karl Parsons' work was featured on a special issue of 5 Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 1992.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 8h

The glass is the work of the great Karl Parsons (1884-1934), a prolific artist greatly inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 8h

Seen in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely. a great illustration of the English colloquial phrase "going at it hammer and tongs". This means doing something with great enthusiasm and energy.
@stainedglassmuseum.bsky.social

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 5d

It was. Unlike a normal baked Camenbert, this one had the juices cooked out of the squash mixed in with the cheese to make it stringier, more like Mozzarella. Next time we will add garlic and rosemary.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 5d

Last week's #FreeCycle fruits included a massive haul of about 20kgs of quince. These are like hard, sour apples, but are packed with flavour, nutrients and fibre. We will be producing quice jelly, chutney, juice and other nutritious meals over the next few weeks. @freecycle.bsky.social

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 5d

This was then baked, and made a delicous meal. A sort of organic fondue where you dip your fresh bread and then end up eating the pot!
We kept the seeds, so next year we grow our own #Pattypan squash.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · 5d

Last week, thanks to #FreeCycle, some folks in a neighbouring village gave us a Pattypan squash. Today, we hollowed out the centre and replaced the pulp and seeds with a whole Camenbert cheese.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Sep 24

More details here
They Come over Here … 300 Years of Xenophobic Propaganda in England: Journal of Political Marketing: Vol 13, No 1-2 share.google/ANV2beCOGcmH...

They Come over Here … 300 Years of Xenophobic Propaganda in England

England's rulers, merchants, and organized labor in the early modern period (from the 16th to the 18th centuries) were all actively using what today we would call propaganda. Each group appreciated...

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Sep 24

Today #Farage is repeating the centuries-old urban myth about immigrants eating swans. This was fact-checked in 2003. Then, as with all previous times, there was no evidence.
Sun accused of Swan Bake 'myth-making' - Press Gazette share.google/o8THJX61xeim...

Sun accused of Swan Bake 'myth-making'

Independent media watchdog the Presswise Trust has accused The Sun of urban myth-making by printing a story that alleged asylum-seekers were stealing and eating swans. The front-page exclusive, headli...

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Drains overwhelmed by flash flooding on Thursday.
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate - BBC News share.google/mSOTc5m9Nnlx...

Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate

It says electrical and fire safety systems in the main house at Ickworth were affected.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is a very special place. A huge and beautiful graveyard stretching out across the slopes and into the forest. A railway, closed 100 years ago, wound around the mountain to Ynysybwl served 2 now defunct mines.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Jun 3

Very nice, @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social .
By way of reply, here are some tiles from Cromer parish church. Nothing in the guide about them, but they seem to have been installed during the 1860s.
#TilesOnTuesday

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · May 19

Time for @cartoonman.bsky.social to come out of retirement.

Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · May 19

If you have school-age children, push them towards studying French and Negotiation at university. Job for life.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · May 19

Formally now time to welcome the UK to a Swiss-style relationship of permanent negotiation and multiple deals with the EU.

Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · May 14

Had to Google that one. But, yes!

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · May 12

"High standards" indeed. The Black Death, like Covid-19, impacted areas of life where you might least expect it. Do you have sources for the Andalucian migrations? Sounds like a great story. @haydnblackey.bsky.social

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · May 12

Wow! I though that celibacy was the norm in Spain from the 12th century.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 25

The US Electoral College system is complicated too, but US voters do at least have the opportunity to vote for their president. We have an indirectly elected head of government and a hereditary head of state.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 25

And Theresa May was chosen by the Conservative Party, but lost support when she went to "the country" and eventually quit only when she lost the support of the Conservatives.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 25

Very true, but it's complicated. BJ did later get something of a popular manadate, This is also true of our present PM. But no such vote supported Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 25

Correction: there are 68 million people registered to vote in the UK, but most of us have no say in who we get as Prime Minister. BJ and the lettuce lady were not chosen by "the country" but by 140,000 members of the Conservative Party.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today's visitor to the garden: a hungry hare. Very good at sniffing out any new bedding plants and then devouring them.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 23

The window was designed by John Lisle (1870-1920) and made by Kempe & Co. Now at the Museum of Stained Glass, Ely Cathedral. The Prince had been 2nd in line to the throne, and was a controversial character: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale - Wikipedia

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 23

Today is St George's Day, England's offical patron saint since 1350. This image, is from 1905 and shows the Duke of Clarence as St George. He died in 1892, aged 28, and this stained glass window was commissioned by his mother the Princess of Wales. It was installed in Buckingham Palace in 1905.

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Dr Robin Croft @robinjazz.bsky.social · Apr 5

Day 4 in our #AirBnB in the Highlands of Scotland. Since arriving, I had been hunting for a teapot, and there it was. Hiding in plain sight. #HarrisTweed

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