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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?

22nd October 2024 Colin Cross 0

It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]

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Plant Tending In A Pandemic; Untying The Gordian Knot

8th September 2021 Colin Cross 0

My reference to “untying the Gordian Knot” is somewhat ethereal. I’ve been giving some though to the complex threads that underpin the whole Covid “debate” whilst, at the same time, taking some note of which [more…]

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