The bracing brilliance of the Bugattis

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It is the sort of perfect sun-dappled afternoon in the British countryside that inspired “Adlestrop”, Edward Thomas’s famous poem of contemplation and blackbird song. There are “high cloudlets” in the sky and, if not quite blackbirds, there are birds with black plumage (crows, I think) at rest in a neighbouring field. Thomas could have made something of this…