Poetic Timing Three days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69. However, it wasn’t in just any month that Neruda’s final days … Read more
We’re changing the look of ecard communications.Take A Look At Our Ecards. In the 1930s a schoolteacher from Devon in England named David Lack researched the life of the British robin. The book he wrote – ‘The Life of the Robin’ – was published in 1943 and has become one of the iconic books on … Read more
Beatrix Potter, the internationally known children’s story writer and illustrator, and creator of the character Peter Rabbit, was a keen supporter of the Herdwick breed of sheep and helped save it from extinction. This was part of her wider vision to preserve that part of England known as the Lake District. She wanted to preserve … Read more