The Joker

Forbidden Fruit

I frutti proibiti sono sempre i piu dolci. Forbidden fruit is always sweetest. – Italian proverb Julia was touched. By chance they had found out that it was her birthday. Patrizia’s cousins and friends arrived. The chairs had been pushed aside and the tables laid out as a buffet with an abundance of Southern Italian …

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The Dagenham Idol

“To Blackwell… J digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot underground find perfect trees over-Covered with earth – nut trees with the branches and the very nuts upon them their shells black with age and their Kernell upon opening decayed but their shell perfectly hard as ever….” From Samuel Pepys diary, 22 September, 1665 …

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