Bredonborough On the street to
Bredonborough.
On the street to acquire MinxDirt of the Sunday variety I…
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Gentle reading I…
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And a little practicing.
MinxLunch prepared by both of us, cakes ready for our two distinguished guests…
17.26 … arriving punctually at 15.00 on the front step.
Professor Daniel Fischlin of the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, one of the founding editors of
Critical Studies in Improvisation (
Amazon link), and his colleague
Andrew Bretz, (
University of Guelph) are in England furthering their research on the
Sanders portrait of
William Shakespeare (
The Scientific Examination of the Sanders Portrait)...
The veracity of the Sanders’ portrait is strenuously refuted by several Power Possessors, such as at the National Portrait Gallery in London, although the evidence assembled by Prof. Fischlin, and reinforced by the investigations on this visit with Andrew, I find persuasive. But then, I have no vested position to defend.
Down the garden I…
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… to visit M. Francis de Verton’s
mulberry tree (
British History Online) [1609, August]
Francis de Verton, alias Forest, of London, gent, has undertaken to bring into this kingdom not only a great number of silk worms but great store of mulberry trees for the maintenance of the worms, whereby an exceeding great benefit will redound as well to all sorts of labouring people as to others. Warrant authorising him to bring in free of custom as many mulberry trees as to him shall seem good for five years, all other persons being forbidden to bring in the same I…
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Our guests left c. 16.50: an invigorating visit for me. The Minx set off for Manchester Pride shortly afterwards, calling in with two ace ideas not long afterwards.
An evening computing ahead.
