Alison Uttley had this little verse in the book “Little Grey Rabbit Makes Lace”. Year after year I’ve recited it with my children and grandchildren. It’s become an annual ritual in the car. They all know it off by heart. vergettegardens.com/2013/07/… She had a great store of folklore.

Look at my name. (No affiliation though)

Heel or toe studs. I should know. A shoemaker amongst other things, my father made my shoes in the 1960s. I still have tins of them, & two of his steel triple lasts, plus leather darning needles, glue tubes, rubber patches etc. He made belts too. And I have cobbler’s (those too!🤣) sheepskin mittens for polishing shoes to army parade standard.

Every 19th May, red roses arrive at the Tower of London for Anne Boleyn. Nobody puts their name to them, and they've been coming for well over a century. I have a theory, and it involves a lawyer's office and an admirer who’s been dead for a very long time. NEW POST 👇

Maggie wouldn’t believe the state the country is in right now

The real decline started with this character. Continued with passion by the Torys. Then this current shower come along saying “Hold my beer.”

Blair was the start of this catastrophic situation our once great Country is in. Well that’s my view 🤬🤬 So LABOUR 🤨

Started under Blair, then the Conservatives continued to fuck it up and now with Starmer and Burnham it’s ten times worse 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wrong question. It should be along the lines of: Has anyone ever done as much harm to Britain as those who refuse to accept the Brexit referendum result?

Britain is in a free fall of self destruction and is on course for annihilation and Labour are the pilots taking us straight into the abyss.

Blair was the start of this country’s downfall all started with that war monger.

With great concern, I am following the humanitarian crisis unfolding in certain areas of #Somalia, where acts of violence and extreme weather events are exacerbating the already precarious living conditions of the population, particularly of women and children. I hope for the generous involvement of the international community, so that our brothers and sisters may not lack the necessary assistance.

His grandstanding "eulogy" at Diana's funeral I thought was cringe even then. I didn't listen to all of it, and to cap it all off people standing and applauding. Looking back at it now and knowing what I know now about Spencer I feel I was right in thinking how off beam he was then, let alone now. He's a disingenuous prick.

Are you really that gullible?

Respected historian? Is that what we'll call Harry now too? William is the only one in his immediate family who hasn't fallen into the "I'll sell out my kinfolk for a cash influx" book deal.

You can’t think of a reason why a man would lie about someone he hates? To sell a book?

Compelling reasons: He hates royal family, he heeds money, guilty over his betrayal of Diana, he needs to sell his book

Where was Charles Spencer after his sister Diana was killed in a car crash? Did he travel to Paris with his sisters to bring her body home? No, because at the time of her death they weren’t even speaking so he hid in his ancestral home while King Charles brought her back.

Have you not seen the video clip of him just after she died saying he would never write about her? He’s got a short memory obviously.

Spencer is a cad and a bounder. In other words yes, he is a disgrace.

We don't think Earl Spencer is a disgrace; we know Earl Spencer is a disgrace.