Let the Sunshine In

Keeping Life Simple

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#The Traveling Wilburys.

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Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.

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Castle Combe

No new house has been built in this English village since the 1600s.

The ones you are looking at are, more or less, the same ones that stood here four hundred years ago.

This place is called Castle Combe, and it lies on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.

It grew rich during the Middle Ages through the wool trade.

The fast water of the By Brook, which carved the narrow valley in which the village sits, powered the mills that cleaned and thickened the cloth, while the weavers lived in the beautiful stone cottages that still line the streets.

It produced a distinctive red and white cloth known simply as Castlecombe, which was sold in Bristol, London and many other places.

When the wool trade faded, so did the money. The village more or less stood still, and what was already there remained.

It was a national newspaper that first called it "the prettiest village in England" in 1962, and visitors have not stopped coming since.

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Tor-rific

Drone photographer John Wickes captured this magical scene as the sun rose at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset last week.

(via The Telegraph)

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TV Guide July 30 - August 6, 1966

John William “Johnny” Carson  (1925 – 2005) was a television host, comedian, writer, producer, actor, and musician known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). (Wikipedia)

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A green Penfold letterbox in the City of London

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Astrid likes to make herself comfortable as the summer days are dragon on.

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Fyrish Monument, Scotland by Kier Allen

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Season 2 Episode 12

M*A*S*H - The Incubator - CBS - December 1, 1973

Comedy / Drama / Medical

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Larry Gelbart and Laurence Marks

Produced by Gene Reynolds  and Larry Gelbart

Directed by Jackie Cooper

Stars:

Alan Alda as Captain Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

Wayne Rogers as Captain Dr. "Trapper" John McIntyre

McLean Stevenson Lt. Colonel Dr. Henry Blake

Loretta Swit as Major Margaret Houlihan, R.N. (Credits Only)

Larry Linville as Major Dr. Frank Burns

Gary Burghoff as Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly

Robert F. Simon as General Maynard M. Mitchell

Logan Ramsey as Colonel Lambert

Ted Gehring as Major Arnold Morris

Sarah Frankboner as Nurse Owens

Helen Funai as Betty Lou

John Alvin as Bowman

Jerry Harper as Phillips

Eldon Quick as Captain Sloan

Ralph Grosh as Captain Fox

Sheila Laurtisten as Nurse Sheila Sturner

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Basilique de NOTRE DAME DE FOURVIERE, Lyon, France - by Joseph Routon

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100 years ago:

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Eclectic!

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SIR SAM NIELL (1947-Died July 13th 2026,at78). Northern Ireland-born New Zealand Actor. He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), followed by leading roles in My Brilliant Career (1979), The Final Conflict (1981), Possession (1981), Evil Angels/A Cry in the Dark (1988), Dead Calm (1989), Death in Brunswick (1990), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Piano (1993), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Event Horizon (1997), The Dish (2000) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016). He came to international prominence as Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (1993), a role he reprised in Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).

On television, he portrayed Merlin in the miniseries Merlin (1998) and Merlin's Apprentice (2006), the former of which earned him nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award. He was also Golden Globe-nominated for playing historic spy Sidney Reilly in Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) and a British officer during World War II in One Against the Wind (1991). He also played Thomas Wolsey in The Tudors (2007) and Major Chester Campbell in Peaky Blinders (2013–2014). He was also known for narrating various documentary projects.Sam Neill - Wikipedia

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Comic Book Reader, New York City, 1947. MORRIS ENGEL.

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Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands region

Scotland, UK 🇬🇧

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Series Premiere

Are You Being Served? - Pilot - BBC One - September 8, 1972

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft

Produced by David Croft

Directed by Bernard Thompson

Stars:

Trevor Bannister as Mr James/Dick Lucas

Mollie Sugden as Mrs Betty Slocombe

Frank Thornton as Captain Stephen Peacock

Arthur Brough as Mr Ernest Grainger

John Inman as Mr Wilberforce Claybourne Humphries

Wendy Richard as Miss Shirley Brahms

Nicholas Smith as Mr Cuthbert Rumbold

Larry Martyn as Mr Mash

Michael Knowles as The Customer

Harold Bennett as "Young" Mr Grace

Stephanie Gathercole as the Secretary

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Have you ever heard about my wife? Oh, yes, yes. Uh, her name is Lucy, is that it? That’s right, yeah. Yes, yes, I heard all those publicity stories about her. Yeah, well, I got news for you. Those were not publicity stories. You mean they were true? Yes. Well, she must…she must, she must be quite a character. Well, she’s, uh more than just a character. LUCILLE BALL AS LUCY RICARDO I LOVE LUCY (1951-1957)