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Month: February 2017

A dove, Trinity and a clock – or the pecker pecked

February 18, 2017

A propos of nothing very much, a wonderful story in the paper yesterday about the Cambridge college where my daughter works as a gardener. Alas, it took place a quarter of an hour after she left for home, so she entirely missed the drama, but tells me that the hawk is a familiar figure – … More A dove, Trinity and a clock – or the pecker pecked

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Stripey Kingship on the Orontes

February 7, 2017

To the British Museum, to see the scanning of the statue of King Idrimi of Alalakh. The king, pictured above in his livery of scanning-stripes, is a splendidly pop-eyed chap with magnificent hat, who was exiled from Aleppo in the mid-second millennium BC and returned from exile to capture and rule for 30 years or … More Stripey Kingship on the Orontes

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