[T]here was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.

The dappled pink and blushing rose.

Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.

Eurasian