28th May, 2020 – East Coker
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope/ For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
Hello from Suffolk. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem: an extract from East Coker by TS Eliot.
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On this day: 28th May, 1883 – the architect of Portmeirion, Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis is born in Gayton, Northamptonshire
On this day: 28th May, 1936 – Alan Turing submits his groundbreaking paper On Computable Numbers, aged just 24
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