Feb 23, 2023
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Mr. Cruickshank
Vintage poplin postcard of Belgraves Court, the stomping grounds of Simon Kurt Wortland, better known as the Mad Gardener of Bromley Gardens, because of his startling mental defects and his mad gardening skillz.
A typical day for Wortland was anything but typical, and might have included weeding the ornamental red lettuce beds, pleaching the lime trees, and surgically replacing his thumb with his big toe. Or any other toe. Or several toes.
Baby Gruenwald was one of the few to show up at Wortland’s parole hearing in 1952, heartily recommending he be released, as Halloween was coming and the baby needed somebody to scissorhand his hedges (though nobody called it scissorhanding back then, they called it cruickshanking, as there was this guy named Cruickshank who was awesome at it).
The English House by Dan Cruickshank review – if walls could talk | History books
History used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, it’s more about floors and grates. In his new book, he takes a keen-eyed tour of eight English houses, from Northumberland to Sussex, dating from the early 1700s to exactly 100 years ago, and ranging from an outlandish gothic pile to one of the first council flats. In Cruickshank’s pages,…
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A caricature -- Napoleon Flees After Waterloo, by George Cruickshank.
Personally I think this is quite funny
Edit: It’s hard to make out what the Imperial Eagle is saying. It’s, “my left wing has entirely disappeared...”
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Cruickshank - Cruickshank - By Sty for PlanetMosh
Canadian Sludgers Cruickshank hit us with their debut self-titled album, and it’s a strangely clever one. There’s a mixture here of Sludge and doom riffs, and expect the unexpected when it comes to drumming, demonstrated perfectly in album opener ‘Clouded ‘. Sporadic surges of speed litter this track but it knits and holds the track together quite nicely.
‘Coma Blue‘ is giving me some concerns…
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Album Review: Cruickshank - Cruickshank (Self Released)
Album Review: Cruickshank – Cruickshank (Self Released)
Sometimes a project like Cruickshank just has to happen. The meeting of a group of like-minded musicians whose only ambition is to crank out somethin’ gnarly and see what comes of the process. It helps immensely that the members of Cruickshank are veterans of heavy music, and yet still keen to push its boundaries. Their eponymous debut seethes with a sludgy yet lean energy that speaks of many…
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The Victorian Country House: Morality, Domesticity & Organisation
The Victorian Country House: Morality, Domesticity & Organisation
Running a household in Victorian England had become a science – with tasks to be delegated and a system of categorised activity for those at every level of society. When Girouard writes of the eminent concern for ‘morality, domesticity, organization and hospitality’[1]in the country house the emphasis is on the rigid upholding of standards that allowed the country house to function and exist.…
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