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News wall: Rishi Sunak

Sep 27, 2020Sep 27, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Chancellor takes pole position

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Diary snapshot: Traffic cones

Sep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Perhaps the cone was not following the boat, but following me

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News wall: Banksy

Sep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Street artist loses two-year legal battle over trademarks

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News wall: Harold Evans

Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I'd sit every day marvelling at what simple words put together in the right way could do

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Diary snapshot: That guilty feeling

Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I just presumed I was to blame

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News wall: Modern Man just got 35,000 years older

Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

New research shows earlier arrival in Saudi Arabia

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News wall: Poland in LGBT clash with EU

Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Around 80 towns declare themselves “LGBT-free”

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Diary snapshot: The birch tree

Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

In Celtic cultures, the birch symbolises growth, renewal, stability, initiation, and adaptability

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Diary snapshot: Boris’s Kitchen-sink anarchy

Sep 20, 2020Sep 20, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The word anarchy was first used in 1539, meaning "an absence of government"

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Art: Ted Bolt Says Relax, A Portrait

Sep 20, 2020Sep 20, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I chose to make a portrait of someone I have never even seen

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News wall: Churchill’s secret guerrilla army

Sep 20, 2020Sep 19, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A sort of Dad's Army with dirty faces

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Artwork Archive: Poppy Fields

Sep 20, 2020Nov 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

The 1914-18 world war holds a place in my mind that is both comforting and disturbing

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Diary snapshot: Duvet day

Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Duvets originated in rural Europe and were filled with the down feathers of ducks or geese

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News wall: Safe-distance social care

Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

To improve opportunities and life chances, to strengthen families and to protect human rights

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Drabble: Accidental damage

Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She was hunched over the sink, head in hands

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News wall: Test & Trace

Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

NHS Test and Trace is an outsourced service provided to the National Health Service in England

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News wall: Boris’s Brexit

Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘Boris Johnson claims to have signed an international agreement by mistake’

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Diary snapshot: Young Marble Giants

Sep 16, 2020Sep 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock

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News wall: Chimpanzees

Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

The biggest threats to the chimpanzee are habitat loss, poaching, and disease

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Diary snapshot: Spelunking

Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

The recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems

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