A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.” — Roland Deschain
5:46 am (by ArtefactoryLab)
This one’s for Quin and Mel….
Who but an Englishman, the legendary Sir John Franklin, could have managed to die of starvation and scurvy along with all 129 of his men in a region of the Canadian Arctic whose game had supported an Eskimo colony for centuries? When the corpses of some of Franklin’s officers and crew were later discovered, miles from their ships, the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of button polish, and a copy of The Vicar Of Wakefield. These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.
— Victorian Camping Gear : A By No Means Exhaustive List « The Dabbler
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So many interesting things in the world, this Wikipedia entry for example, and here I am at work producing Works Orders.
Something is not right here….
