“A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.”

—  Vivian Stanshall

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)

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English musician, artist and author 1943–1995

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