{"id":139310,"date":"2023-09-25T21:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/silent-sundays-should-we-swap-our-lawnmowers-leaf-blowers-and-power-tools-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T21:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:48:57","slug":"silent-sundays-should-we-swap-our-lawnmowers-leaf-blowers-and-power-tools-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/silent-sundays-should-we-swap-our-lawnmowers-leaf-blowers-and-power-tools-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Sundays: should we swap our lawnmowers, leaf blowers and power tools for peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh is calling for hush, so at least once a week he can listen to a blackbird rather than a Black & DeckerName: Quiet Sundays.Age: Ancient. Some say since the very beginning \u2026 as the passage from the King James, rather than the Phil Collins, version of Genesis puts it: \u201cOn the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it \u2026\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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