Licenced today: a food bank sign at a nearby farm…
Friday, 11 November 2022
Thursday, 10 November 2022
KFC? WTF!...
It’s hard to imagine a more misjudged promotion, with the fast food franchise KFC encouraging their German customers to “treat themselves” on the anniversary of Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass - in 1938, when Nazi mobs torched and ransacked synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses across Germany. “Commemoration of Kristallnacht", the message read. "Treat yourself to more soft cheese and crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!”.
Dark skies at North Cave Wetlands yesterday...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Traffic...
Licenced today: a lorry negotiates the narrow, cobbled street through the village of Dent in Cumbria…
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Stillness in company...
Against all expectations, the village pub is still open. However, unless you want to know the price of red diesel, or the turning circle of a touring caravan, it’s perhaps better to drink elsewhere.
Licenced today: a Quaker meeting at Swarthmoor Meeting House in Cumbria, the only meeting house donated to the movement by George Fox…
Monday, 7 November 2022
Sunday, 6 November 2022
Lyveden New Bield...
Licenced last week: Lyveden New Bield, near Oundle, Northamptonshire. Not a house in ruins, but an Elizabethan summer house built for Sir Thomas Tresham, a fervent Roman Catholic, and left unfinished when he died in 1605. The house, in plan, is strictly symmetrical, based on a Greek cross, featuring many religious symbols…
Saturday, 5 November 2022
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