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Thomas Bewick: the Northumbrian who made his mark

14th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Thomas Bewick redrew every bird in Britain on blocks of boxwood the size of a beer mat, hid some very rude jokes in the margins of a natural history book, and created fingerprints 80-odd years [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-Six

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Monday Good morning friends. The sun was peeping through the window when I woke up this morning, so I trotted down to the back door. By the time the man had opened it, the sun [more…]

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It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

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