Balcony with rails

Creeping like snail

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June 29th 2009
A mark to anyone who recognised the Shakespeare quotation in the title: another mark to anyone who knows which play it's from. I've mis-used it a bit - the actual phrase is "And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school". Progress on the house is creeping like snail. Most of the tasks that are left are fairly small and ... read more

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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