Poundbury (Dorchester, Dorset): Poundbury Reaches The Half Way Mark; The Big Issue on Poundbury

Only half way?

From Premier Construction

The Big Issue verdict on Poundbury

"There are no streets or avenues that scream ‘social housing sector’, no homes that announce any kind of second-class status. And when I meet the Duchy of Cornwall’s estate director Simon Conibear to walk around, even he appears to have difficulty pointing out the Guinness-run dwellings from those sold on the private market".

Lagarde: Greece, Tax Evasion, Death Threats

From Greek Reporter

"When asked about Greece, she appeared hasty to move to other subjects. Lagarde only commented on taxation in Greece and raised the burning issue of tax evasion. When asked about past comments regarding tax evasion by the wealthy Greeks, she said: “I better not say too much because, you know, when I have talked about Greece and its taxes before, I got death threats and we had to increase security,” adding, “but is the shipping industry really paying its taxes? Are others? I don’t think so".

Developments, Kathimerini:

"A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered a probe into claims by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras that they received death threats for speaking out on tax evasion, Kathimerini understands".

Corfu Olive Farmer: Green Gold

New developments in quality olive oil production on Corfu

Paul Nash, War Artist; Swanage, Dorset

Paul Nash: The Ghosts of War  BBC 4 iPlayer, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Swanage, Dorset, sequence begins at the 33.40 minute mark

"In the years preceding 1914, David Bomberg, Walter Sickert and Paul Nash set out to paint a new world, but, as the century unfolded, found themselves working in the rubble.

On 25th May 1917, war artist Paul Nash climbed out of his trench to sketch the battlefields of Flanders near Ypres. So focused was he on his work he tripped and fell back into the trench, breaking his ribs. Stretchered back to England, Nash missed his regiment going over the top at the Battle of Passchendaele. His regiment was wiped out.

Nash was scarred by the war and the ghosts of those experiences haunted his work throughout his life. A lover of nature, Nash became one of Britain's most original landscape artists, embracing modern Surrealism and ancient British history, though always tainted by his experiences during two world wars. A private yet charismatic man, he brought British landscape painting into the 20th century with his mixture of the personal and visionary, the beautiful and the shocking. An artist who saw the landscape as not just a world to paint, but a way into his heart and mind".

Greece: Refugees from Asia Minor

Photograph by Nelly's

Ioannina, Greece, 1913-2013, Photography

From the exhibition (Protagon.gr)

Βαρκάρης στη λίμνη των Ιωαννίνων Iωάννινα, δεκαετία του 1940 

Φωτ. Βούλα Παπαιωάννου Αρχείο Μουσείου Μπενάκη

Photograph, Boatman on the Lake of Ioannina, Voula Papaioannou, 1940s; Benaki Museum

Two Monuments in Ioannina:

Liberation 1913