"Sacha" wrote in message
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Did anyone see the programme on the Heseltine's arboretum?


An upstart, who not only had to buy all his own furniture*, but
also had to plant all his own trees.


michael adams


*a remark made by Michael Jopling in respect of Heseltine, quoted
in Alan Clark's Diaries and often misattributed to Clarke himself.
Clark's grandfather was in fact a Glasgow Cotton maunufacturer who
founded the family fortune. While his father Sir Kenneth "Civilisation"
Clark had to buy his own Castle, Saltwood in Kent, from Bill Deede's
family who lost all their money in the Wall St Crash,






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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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