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Month: January 2018

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The Plough at Cadsden

A Chinese president and a non-takeaway

January 28, 2018 slowchilterns

Today we visited somewhere we have driven past on countless occasions over the years, a classic example of tourist’s doorstep law (you don’t bother looking at things under your nose).  After a morning examining two ancient hillfort sites, one at … Continue reading A Chinese president and a non-takeaway

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Irkutsk (image: Jason Rogers via Flickr)

Marlow’s Siberian connection

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 slowchilterns

Marlow has boasted several famous writers as residents: TS Eliot, the Shelleys, Isaak Walton. But the town’s most extraordinary author was surely Kate Marsden (1859-1931), who became a writer by chance: she was a nurse, who first became obsessed with … Continue reading Marlow’s Siberian connection

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Windsor Castle

The carelessness of Queen Elizabeth II

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 slowchilterns

I admit it – that heading’s clickbait. As it happens, my view is that our current monarch is one of the more blameless people in British public life today. She has served, stoically and dutifully, for well over 60 years. … Continue reading The carelessness of Queen Elizabeth II

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