Gerard ter Borch’s The Messenger, known as 'The Unwelcome News' was painted in 1653 and hangs at The Hague’s Mauritshuis Gallery.
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I called at the site of St Leonard’s Priory in London’s Bromley-by-Bow in the summer. Little remains, but some old foundations and a romantic, Victorian gateway. Geoffrey Chaucer, the great writer of the Canterbury Tales, once mocked its Prioress for the inaccuracy of her French and the old fashioned pronunciation of its words:
Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse,
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This African Daisy (dimorphotheca jucunda) I found growing in the grounds of Worcester Cathedral in the summer. A native to South Africa, it was likely brought here by imperial administrators, keen to share the beauty of the other hemisphere. Upon seeing it, the word that most readily springs to mind is ‘simplicity’.
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