26th May, 2020 – i thank You God
i thank You God for most this amazing/ day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees...
Hello from Suffolk. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem: i thank You, God by ee cummings.
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Backpacking with the Saints by Belden Lane
On this day: 26th May, 604 – the death of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury
On this day: 26th May, 1868 – the last public hanging in England sees the execution of Michael Barrett for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion, despite questions over the strength of the evidence against him
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