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8:04 AM May 14, 2021
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8:31 AM May 14, 2021
Colin has now been put on a personal training plan of healthy eating and exercise after tipping the scales at a weighty 8.8kg.
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A podgy puss has been put on a diet after piling on the pounds during lockdown.
Colin has now been put on a personal training plan of healthy eating and exercise after tipping the scales at a weighty 8.8kg when he was taken into the care of Cats Protection’s Downham Market Adoption Centre.
Colin has now been put on a personal training plan of healthy eating and exercise after tipping the scales at a weighty 8.8kg
Everywhere: Lily James
Viewer opinion was starkly divided on Emily Mortimer’s new adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, which began on BBC One last night, and particularly on star Lily James. Admittedly, the melodramatic, love-and self-obsessed Linda Radlett is tricky to play. But Mitford’s version – based on the author and her sisters – is a deliberately, and brilliant, comic creation, funny both when her romantic dreams come crashing into reality, and when delivering ruthless one-liners.
All of that is sadly missing from James’s pouting, tremulous performance. For my money, it lacks that all-important variation; she does play the hysterical teenage emotions, albeit on one shrill note, but can’t land Linda’s shrewd calculation, intense curiosity or savage wit. While Linda sometimes poses as a damsel in distress for effect, James is actually stuck in that archetype. There are definite shades of her fluffy, big-screen Disney Cinderella.
Items from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, now in the British Museum. Top: Gold garnet shoulder clasp encrusted with Sri Lankan garnets (RobRoy/Creative Commons/Wikimedia). Bottom: Gold belt buckle, weighing nearly 1 pound. All the objects shone in the sunshine as on the day they were buried. Basil Brown s diary, August of 1939.
Britain s Dark Ages may have formally ended in a field in Suffolk, England, on July 21, 1939. That s when archaeologist Peggy Piggott uncovered a tiny gold pyramid encrusted with garnets from the Sutton Hoo ship burial. Within days, the excavators had discovered a fabulous Anglo-Saxon hoard of precious metal objects. They had been buried alongside a local king, Raedwald, within a 90-foot-long ship. He died in 624 A.D., thus dating the site to nearly 1,500 years ago.