Cummings of the North
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DBritain OWN the has centuries, produced Great many illustrious adventurers. Sir Francis Drake was the first ever sea captain to circumnavigate the globe (after the Portuguese had already done it), Scott of the Antarctic was the
first man ever to set foot at the South Pole (after the Norwegians had already done it), and Sir Edmund Hillary was the first mountaineer to conquer Everest, despite being from New Zealand. The list goes on and on. But all these noble achievements of history pale into insignificance next to the epic quest that Britain’s greatest living adventurer, Dominic Mckenzie Cummings, undertook in the midst of a terrifying global pandemic. Heroic Crusade
This lavish, gold-accented collector’s plate, hewn from the world’s most sought-after clay, decorated with exquisite transfers that come off in the dishwasher, and glazed with some sort of chemical we get from China in a big bag, bears a stirring image of the Gollum-faced Populist Libertarian of Hearts™. We see him depicted in his nowfamous, heroic crusade to drive - against his own advice - a 4x4 containing his virus-riddled family 264 miles from London to Durham in the teeth of a national lockdown. He Voted to Leave
Faced with undertaking such an unimaginably testing odyssey, most of us craven, single-homed cowards that we are - would have rejected the idea out of hand, as the law required. But not Cummings of the North; he leapt into action without a thought for his own or anyone else’s safety. He summoned the bulldog spirit of his illustrious forbears - Great Britons like General Kitchener, the Earl of Cardigan and Lord Chelmsford - and got behind the wheel to embark upon his epic quest to bring his Coronavirus-laden wife and child to the north-east without stopping for petrol or the toilet. Resilience and Fortitude
As is now well known, once he arrived in Durham, Cummings was not content to simply sit in his second house and allow the deadly contagion to run its course, as required by the regulations that he himself had drafted. He continued to test the limits of his eyesight and his endurance with a brave series of family birthday parties and day-trips to local beauty spots for picnics and walks.
These bold ventures are here brought to life in oils by eminent artist
Ambrosia Creme-Rice. Each plate of this luxurious edition is then hand machine-finished with a rim of genuine faux 24-carat platignum. Plate not shown actual size of much smaller than you expect.
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