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Blog this week's a bit different - about my great aunts fascinating 1920s a love of art passes through the generations, & how vital it is to encourage all to create art: https://t.co/Yxt83m27uI

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2022-01-21

The differences of ducks. A page of Scaups from one of Alfred Crawhall Chapman's on a trip to Holy Island, December 1886, to "prove their changes of plumage". It was important to understand plumage to avoid misidentifying & misclassifying species

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2018-01-30