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Just started this book on this most passionate of countrymen. Grew up watching his TV programmes from the 70’s till his death.
His observations on change in the British countryside have sadly came true. There is a quote on Jack’s many broadcasts “When they finally cover Britain with concrete, they will have something to remind them of what it was all about” National Film Archive
He loved his pipe and baccy, often a Falcon and he always smoked Gallagher’s Honey Rub.
Happy smokes.
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mawnansmiff

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After reading Simon Winchester's excellent 'Exactly' (a book about precision) I now move on to his 'The Men Who United The States: The Amazing Stories Of The Explorers, Inventors & Mavericks Who Made America'.

I've read many of Winchester's books and have yet to read a duffer. A Brit who now lives in America, his books are extremely popular both sides of the Atlantic.

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Jay.
 

kcghost

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I guess in my continuing review of the classics I will try the 14th book in the Perry Mason series by Erle Stanley Gardner, "The Perjured Parrot". Only 66 more after that.
 

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Just finishing Vincent Starrett's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Starting Rex Stout's Before Midnight, the next book being read by our Nero Wolfe "Black Orchids" group.
 
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edger

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Just started this book on this most passionate of countrymen. Grew up watching his TV programmes from the 70’s till his death.
His observations on change in the British countryside have sadly came true. There is a quote on Jack’s many broadcasts “When they finally cover Britain with concrete, they will have something to remind them of what it was all about” National Film Archive
He loved his pipe and baccy, often a Falcon and he always smoked Gallagher’s Honey Rub.
Happy smokes.
Ettrick puffer
Great programs that I found by accident. Sad about his predictions re the countryside, but Britain still looks lovely to me.
His dangling Falcon appeals!
 
Jul 3, 2020
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Great programs that I found by accident. Sad about his predictions re the countryside, but Britain still looks lovely to me.
His dangling Falcon appeals!
Yes Jack was a proper countryman and we are still blessed to have many areas of outstanding beauty. The main worry is that our little island is becoming over populated and the urban sprawl is invading our countryside. He did love his Falcon pipes and I can still remember watching Jack on TV with my Dad smoking his Falcon pipe. It’s scary how time flies as that must have been over forty years ago!
All the best mate?
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mso489

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Little Snow Landscape by the Swiss writer Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, published by New York Review of Books Classic Original series. These are short prose pieces that are entirely separate, with different characters and subjects, that come together as a novel (if you let them). They are sort of like psalms, and sort of like mathematical proofs in prose notation. Heavy ... but also amusing and tremendously energetic.
 
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