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Samuel Pepys and Saffron Walden

Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660.

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Restoration plans revealed for ‘iconic’ windmill

Today the “iconic” Fulbourn windmill is set to be restored to full working order after a charity stepped in to fund its repairs.

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    Samuel Pepys and Saffron Walden
    Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660.
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    Portrait: David Campbell (1921-2001)
    Everyone and no-one knew David Campbell. Everyone from Rab Butler and Stanley Wilson to the little boy playing an angel in the Nativity play

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ClerkofOxford avatar Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford ·
23 Jun 2069463737199677641

Tonight is Midsummer Eve, which was for centuries the traditional date for celebrating the summer solstice. It was once a high point of the festival year - a time of feasts, parades, ghosts, love, roses, and bonfires blazing in the short summer night.

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21 Jun 2068589480735338940

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-lengsta-dg-anglo-saxon-solstice.html

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9 Jun 2064242212242637176

2/2 I also recommend 'The Parish Churches of Norwich', available through all good bookshops or from Amazon at https://amzn.eu/d/03EhOSzU

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SimoninSuffolk avatar Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk ·
8 Jun 2063922056001917436

Gerard Manley Hopkins died #OTD 8 June 1889. He was 44.

'What would the world be,
Once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left,
O let them be left,
Wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.'

From his poem 'Inversnaid', on the Canongate Wall of the

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