Hints and tips:
...We are given a quick tour by deacon Betsy Thomas, who is friendly and much interested in our story. It’s a spectacular place, modelled on an old Spanish mission in Mexico, a memento of times past....
...Bob Thomas joined as head of North American property equities in August from AMP Capital, the real estate company....
...Next I had to have Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Turnip Hoer”, in which a farm labourer saves the life of a duchess whose carriage gets into difficulties....
...Elsie Hipwood, 63, said her father had taught his children to vote Labour, but added: “I stopped backing them a few years ago. If I bother to go, it’ll be Ukip.”...
...This is the National Gardens Scheme, which began 85 years ago when Miss Elsie Wragg wrote to 600 grandees to ask if they would open up their gardens in return for a donation of a shilling per visitor towards...
...I didn’t learn about Frances Wright, the radical reformer, feminist, abolitionist and writer; or about Elsie Inglis, medical pioneer and suffragette....
...They include Shirley Bassey Gateway, Zeta-Jones International or even Gavin and Stacey Airport (perhaps they should all meet up at the Dylan Thomas bar)....
...Thomas specialises in illuminating anecdotes....
...Elsie spent the remainder of the war a virtual prisoner at Haus Friedwart....
...Whatever happened to Horace, Cecil, Cyril, Ada, Elsie, Mabel, Beryl and Lydia (said to have vanished from Australia because of people saying “liddayer garbage can”)?...
...Thomas also imports Spanish produce....
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