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August 2008
Do they mean to say that we should trust people or that we shouldn't trust people? I don't know.
Anyway, this graffiti is very close to the auto. mechanic promotional sign that I've posted
This dog knew none of the visitors who streamed by him and his team. He sat so calmly and happily greeted everyone, allowing them to pet him without complaint. I'm not sure who's happier in this photo: the man or the dog.
This is the same dog who went Zen moments after this shot was taken.
Nymans is an English garden in Haywards Heath, Sussex. It was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel.
In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property.[1] Nymans is the origin of many sports, selections and hybrids, both planned and serendipitous, some of which can be identified by the term nymansensis, "of Nymans". Eucryphia × nymansensis (E. cordifolia × E. glutinosa) is also known as E. "Nymansay". Magnolia × loebneri 'Leonard Messel', Camellia 'Maud Messel' and Forsythia suspensa 'Nymans', with its bronze young stems, are all familiar shrub to gardeners.
History
In the late 19th century, Ludwig Messel, a member of a German Jewish family, settled in England and bought the Nymans estate, a house with 600 acres on a sloping site overlooking the picturesque High Weald of Sussex. There he set about turning the estate into a place for family life and entertainment, with an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden room where topiary features contrast with new plants from temperate zones around the world. Messel's head gardener from 1895 was James Comber, whose expertise helped form plant collections at Nymans of camellias, rhododendrons, which unusually at the time were combined with planting heather (Erica) eucryphias and magnolias. William Robinson advised in establishing the Wild Garden.[2]
His son Colonel Leonard Messel succeeded to the property in 1915 and replaced the nondescript Regency house with the picturesque stone manor, designed by Sir Walter Tapper and Norman Evill in a mellow late Gothic/Tudor style. He and his wife Maud (daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne) extended the garden to the north and subscribed to seed collecting expeditions in the Himalayas and South America.
The garden reached a peak in the 1930s and was regularly opened to the public. The severe reduction of staff in World War II was followed in 1947 by a disastrous fire in the house, which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter[3] Anne Messel and her second husband the 6th Earl of Rosse. At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was willed to the National Trust with 275 acres of woodland, one of the first gardens taken on by the Trust. Lady Rosse continued to serve as Garden Director.
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Glaucius Oliva, presidente do CNPq e Rogério Ribeiro, da Glaxo SmithKline. Foto: Juliana Nogueira / Embaixada Britânica
(FOR SALE, $400.00, framed) COMPLETE TRUST (8"W X 10"H--oil on canvas) I saw this child sleeping on her father's shoulder while waiting in line at a local restaurant. It occurred to me that it took complete trust to fall asleep while someone was holding you off the ground. This painting represents the extraordinary amount of trust a child has in a parent.
Northern Trust Corporation is an international financial services company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It provides investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking services through a network of 85 offices in 18 U.S. states and 12 international offices in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin '12
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PELUPO FESTIVAL 2023
11th March 2023
Siam Country Club, Pattaya, Thailand
Photo by Natthanon T.
Special thanks to the VIJI Corp team
Governor O'Malley hosts maryland environmental trust at Government House by Tom Nappi at Government House, Annapolis, Maryland
Brownsea Castle, now a hotel, was rebuilt on the site of a small Henrician coastal artillery fort or blockhouse, built between 1545-47 by Henry VIII as part of his network of coastal defences to protect against French and Spanish invasion. The fort was refortified during the Civil War by the Parliamentarians and was then bought and converted into a country house in 1726. In the mid-19th century the house was remodelled and a new Tudor style facade, gatehouse and pier built. This was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1897. Any remains of the original castle are now in the basement of the house, though sections of the later house reflect its original structure.
Although nothing remains on the surface of the original Henrician blockhouse, its physical aspect can be interpreted from a 1597 map of Poole Harbour. It consisted of a square single-storey stone building surrounded on three sides by a moat with a hexagonal gun platform on the seaward side which was enclosed by a low wall.
The original country house was built in 1727 and incorporated the remains of the blockhouse into its structure. The building was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1897 by the architect Philip Brown of Southampton. The exterior of the house is mostly in the Victorian Tudor style with an irregular plan and profile. It is dominated by a tower which was built off the original blockhouse. The main building is part two-storeys and part three-storeys and has a tower which rises a further two storeys. Facing the sea is a two-storey building dating to circa 1850 in front of the tower.
The walls are part coursed with squared rough ashlar stone, and part brick with stone dressings. The roofs have battlemented parapets.
Info from English Heritage.
It is now used exclusively by the John Lewis Partnership, as their staff holiday hotel.
Almost worth becoming a Waitrose Saturday 'girl'!
Worth a fullsize view!
Dozens of vintage and classic cars motored to the National Trust’s Newark Park on Sunday.
The annual event, held in sweltering heat, was organised by the Bristol Austin Seven Club, and organiser Ben Amor told Stroud Times: “We were initially aiming to get 60 [Austin Sevens] here as it’s the 60th anniversary of the club, but we’ve got about 45 here which, given the weather, we’ve done very well and we’ve got a fantastic selection.”
One of the standout cars at the rally was an Austin Seven Swallow Saloon. “This was the car that started the Jaguar car company – Sir William Lyons’ company Swallow Sidecars started producing bodies for the Austin Seven Swallow in 1927.
“She’s been very much admired, and it’s owned by a lady who’s in her 90s and has had it for around 50 years – she’s even driven it to France, so there’s a fantastic story with it. It’s a real bonus to have that car here today.”
The Bristol Austin Seven Club was formed in 1965 and now has members all around the world, but the majority are from Gloucestershire, Bristol and Bath: “There’s even a member from Australia here today,” added Ben.
The club was formed in May 1965 by twelve Austin Seven enthusiasts, some of whom are still members today. Since then, the club has grown in strength to approximately 350 with many international members. Throughout the year the club organises weekend and one-day events and each year a trophy is awarded to a member who has done something special for the club.
Another trophy is awarded for the ‘Driver of the Year’, and a further trophy to the driver who has had the biggest (or most amusing) disaster in the previous 12 months. Trophies are also awarded at some club runs for various achievements decided by the event organiser.