We've boarded ships piloting themselves across oceans portioned out to the last molecule just as we have daytripped over the sunburst the bountiful plains.

The Oak was trying, with small success, not to commit what George Orwell would have called a facecrime.

It would be beyond the purpose of these Notices to enumerate all those who have been connected with Deddington, and have attained distinction, for several of those who have obtained a grant of the manor from time to time have their place in the history of England, some of them being of the royal family, or queens-consorts.

Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa