Stopped listening to it now. The standard of broadcast has really hit rock bottom. Such a shame & fingers should point to who’s in charge
Design & architecture fanatic. Ebonist/furniture maker, living in France. Like my forebears, a lover of idiotic things (apart from ring wingers). Very amateurish bassist & uke player & photographer ⚠️ Dyslexic errors do occur Photos: © but repostable
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Stopped listening to it now. The standard of broadcast has really hit rock bottom. Such a shame & fingers should point to who’s in charge
Envious Bill. One of my favourite places on earth
I wish. He is a genius
Wall #photography #nature Experiments with filters #2 I didn’t know why I felt so compelled to take a photo of this tired, past it’s prime plant at the Botanical Gardens. I do now. This ugly duckling transformed into something quite fascinating.
As a culinary duo, nothing quite beats the simple combination of mash potatoes & brown sauce. The look on my small French family’s faces when this opportunity arises is pure ecstasy.
Can’t for the life of me think why. Can you? bsky.app/profile/noel...
Brilliant
I remember seeing Björk at an art exhibition in Paris; by herself, no entourage, calm gathering everything in. I don’t think anyone recognised her at all, despite her rather splendid attire. Class
After 14yrs of ineptitude, every road leads back to them
It’s always good to give & receive credit when it’s due. It spurs us on
Sam just gets soooo excited when he waves his arms about, he forgets all the facts.
I like Darren Jones, but when he’s in charge of his new position & has to follow the bloody awful aping of right wing Party rhetoric that Labour is pumping out, his image will tarnish as rapidly as Labour’s. Are you listening @darrenpjones.bsky.social ?
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This one’s special Eddie
One of the things that gives me a flicker of hope for my country is when groups like the Quakers, the RNLI, the Women's Institute and the National Trust stand up for common decency. I just don't understand why the Labour Party can't.
🪬🧿 The fact flagshagging far right in the UK will not talk about #asylumseekers #benefitfraud #taxavoidance #inequality #politics #rhetoric #priorities #refugees
What?? Why’s the idiot got so much sail up?
Poorer pupils in England ‘bounced out of some subjects’ by costs, Families can't afford ingredients for food/nutrition subjects, instrument lessons for music, fieldwork trips, foreign visits in languages, home technology. Lives unfulfilled by inequitable distribution of income and wealth.
Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇
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You found they had a policy juxtaposed to a rhetorical soundbite?
Like this a lot.
The heavy reliance in using Xitter in the light of all evidence pointing towards the platform being clearly manipulated was sheer folly. The need to expand & use other platforms was on the cards a year ago.
"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK."
No way am I going to try that. That’s way more expensive.
I can categorically state that this won’t work with a ukulele. I would offer evidence, but since Junior is almost 19yo, a) he’d never agree to try & b), I don’t fancy diverting finds to buy another uke
My favourite camion
You’ve still the problem of parking unless of course you’ve a rooftop terrace
Wall #photography #architecture I did know what to expect from the Fondation Louis Vuitton building (apart form the Hockney exhibition;most excellent & vast). From the outside it could be a vast glass Spanish galleon; it’s very impressive, inside & out. Unfortunately I was being hurried
P&O Ferries boss who illegally sacked 800 staff quits. He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt. Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff. Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
They’ve got to take the house first; considering the Reps have bet their livelihoods on this, there’s going to an extortionate amount of skullduggery & illegality afoot.
Telling it how it is
Perfection Bill.🤌 Leaves the Q, just how do begin orchestrating the voices on this?
Bravo Florence.👏👏👏 I do I suppose I’ll have to get out the ladder and install my neon signs myself!
Well I you an do this Florence, there’s a place that needs your attention to give some life 😉 bsky.app/profile/dudl...
Much prefer a full on 100%. So much more tidier & finite.
They don’t have an original thought or action in their tiny brains
Why the Guardian actually feels it worth reporting on this utter crackpot, who’d probably be better off in a clinic, is beyond fathoming. In this day & age, it doesn’t take much to fill column inches with meaningful content.
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Wall #photohraphy #beach Yesterday I was going through some old holiday snaps from last year & found this colour photo. Not unusual, until I looked closer & discovered all the elements of a scene from a Jacques Tati film 😂 For those who don’t know this french icon, you’ve missed out
Totally agree, this is madness in itself & thoroughly unprofessional & unethical by the broadcaster. This is the 🇺🇸
Many a fledgling drummer must have been inspired by this
Very rarely (if at all) hear play the big bloke these days. Don’t know why, he’s bloody marvellous 🤩 youtu.be/tB54XUhA9_w?...
Johnson has no affiliations to any ideology, apart from promoting & grifting for Johnson. He knew it was bad, but saw it as a means to No.10, int’l statesman & ‘king of the world’.
There you have it. After 14yrs of having news handed t them on a plate with garnishing, MSM has forgotten how to (with an element of strapped for resources) dig news themselves & follow the now normal regimen of listening to lobbyists
I think we can assume they have no wish to relinquish power under normal democratic voting. The Q is, just how far along the military is prepared to fall in line
…parasols shading the tables & chairs outside; a small music stage, games evenings etc, what a marvellous community hub near to the beach this could be
Wall #photography #seaside This place continues to live rent free in my head. A friend’s daughter (now in her 50s) spend her adolescent summers here playing pinball. If I had the funds to restore it to its former glory with cocktail, beer glass & perhaps a pink flamingo neon signs…
It's actually not possible to drive a truck from Germany to Kyrgyzstan without passing through Russia. So no surprise that much of what Germany says gets exported to Kyrgyzstan (black) never actually gets there (blue). Kyrgyzstan is just what gets written on the invoice. Stuff never goes there...
At last, a day without an evening of MinL watching ‘N'oubliez pas les paroles!´ on TV. If you’re not acquainted with this emission, consider yourself fortunate ; it is quite frankly to music what Pol Pot was to humanitarianism. The scars run deep to those of a sensitive nature.
…central account for all to see, to celebrate Parisian life. Currently pulling together the concept of text. Interested if you have time?
The pleasure would be mine. If you’re adept at creative writing (not Madame & Junior’s forté), you might help this dyslexic clot with the wording of the Bio & pinned post for an photo account on Bluesky. The concept is to encourage amateur & prof photographers to post their snaps of Paris on a…
And then there’s this; many a road trip with Junior singing the harmony to this! youtu.be/I8UHCqvuUqY?...
Apart from coming from one of my all time favourite albums from a musical genius, this track has to be one of the coolest ever. Beautifully carried by the bass throughout (one which I must learn to play, when time allows), it has it all. youtu.be/NSfOB8ANdWU?...
This is mob extortion, plain & simple
Fr a person who claimed not to know much…
Wall #photography #urban a very tenuous forée for me on street scene. ‘Busy Lines’ at Rosa Parks Paris 10eme. A busy transit hub of all types of transportation.
You know Bill, ever since you posted this I’ve been thinking of other great tracks depicting the poignant & emotive relationship between father & son. Cat Stevens - Father & son Peter Gabriel- Father, son James Blunt- Monsters Can you think of any more?I do miss mine & his very dry sense of humour
BBQ very slow this evening, must make a Doc rdv fr testostérone levels
Now Florence, if there’s a glass or two of ice cold pastis & tartines of échalote & goats cheese available, may I reserve a street side table so I can comfortably people watch?
👏👏👏 they don’t even realise they’re being set up! Where can you begin to assess their decision making processes ?
Wall #photography #landscape French Alps. Experiment in filters; I don’t know whether this works, so I’ll leave it for my peers who’re far better than me to decide
An unhealthy alliance One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy By John Hall @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Late back from BinL handicap residence so quick improv ‘supper’ of pâté de sanglier (from family farm), carotte râpé, apple, few mountain cheeses, washed down with a 20yo Croix-Jura. Simple French perfection, with the problem of when exactly to call a halt. Tough call; there’s always tomorrow
Well it was either President or jailbird.
Blackstone keep on programming future generations of the elite
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Ah, those were the days they wore real shorts, instead of today’s 1970s culottes interpretation 😉
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Self awareness has never been in the Tory skillset TBH. Add to this the total lack of any sense of original intelligent creativity & the results are predictable.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit blocked Trump from making taxpayers cover his $83M legal bill to E. Jean Carroll, ruling his actions fell outside presidential duties and that he had waived his right to appeal. atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/18/c...
When you realise that you really are dealing with a total imbecile. Verbal diarrhoea has never flowed for copiously.
Wall #photography #Urban As we all ponder over the cock ‘adults’ make of the world, making the mistakes of their forebears; where there’s youth there’s hope. Marseille
I take it the jogging to the chauffeured driven car thing was never a serious life changing regime then Sir Michael?
Start at the very top, then work your way down.
A retired headteacher was arrested for carrying an Eye joke at a march in July. To hear more about Mr Farley’s arrest and release, tune in to the Summer Free Speech Special episode of Page 94, the Private Eye magazine podcast.
Looks AI generated to me
Perhaps to cover up the misdemeanours of Tory councils
20yrs??!! My god time flies
If I were an American yesterday and I watched 8 strong, intelligent European leaders and my President around a table I’d have gone to bed embarrassed and ashamed. I know that because I remember deeply my shame watching Johnson, Truss and Sunak belittle my country.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there were condom vending machines in the entrance
64% of the richest 10% in Britain got most of their money via inheritance, not by working for it. Such as Allsopp, the eldest daughter of Baron Hindlip, chairman of Christies, who got her start in TV via her art history degree, which she studied at ... Christies. But sure. More austerity.
5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions, Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU neighbours. Worse, in a number of areas they’re planning to actively go backwards @ieep.eu @europeanmovement.co.uk
This conclusion, given what hasn’t been said & what has & hasn’t been done, seems to be the only rational conclusion. bsky.app/profile/marc...
Trump open to a meeting in Moscow? Well it certainly wouldn’t be with Zelenskyy. Perhaps it with another agenda; in for a penny in for a pound
Especially the smirking smile on Putin’s face. The look of the satisfaction of completing game, set & match
Of memory serves me right only a couple of ppl went to Rwanda & they volunteered. Fact are facts not MP fiction.
No surprise as he tries to make himself more relevant in the only direction open to him. Mogg likewise blamed his excursion as a silly mistake www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
Kharkiv right now. Moscovia bombs sleeping families. 4 victims including kids. Don’t tell me about peace that Putin wants. Do not dare.
On the record, Reps & GOP have no hearts bc they have no morals.
Seem to remember to Tories playing a similar stunt with registering postal votes (might be wrong)
Thought the very same. Though whether they have friends or family looking, I doubt whether the paperwork (if any)these Neanderthals complete us in any way collated
Wall #photography #urban Tranche de vie parisienne; the real Paris that keeps the glitzy part ticking over.
Tax brakes are important for the wealthy youtube.com/shorts/a7bjQ...
Reform UK’s Joseph Boam has been sacked as Deputy Leader of Leicestershire County Council by Dan Harrison. Apparently Reform UK are putting out a statement that he didn’t have time to properly commit to the role, funny being it’s his only job.
Great cover #ukulele