Pause for Thought – 8 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
Any decent decorator will tell you that 90% of the work is the preparation, and actually putting the coat of paint on is but the culmination of all the work. It’s the preparation that matters. Looking at it from a very different angle, the idea for the Basingstoke Canal began as an economical means of…
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