Derbyshire 126 - Day 72, week 11, horse racing starts at Newcastle - Hump time again
June 1st 2020 After a poor nights sleep the night before last I hoped for better last night . My mind was full of coming home things. Disappointment but relief . Relief to have got around London with its traffic . Relief at getting up the M1. All that washing to be done . Before I fell asleep so many thoughts were swirling round my head . I would have been reliving the highlights of the trip we had just complet
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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more 
