Let me take a wild guess: Jeff Bezos?
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Let me take a wild guess: Jeff Bezos?
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That's a cracker 🙂
Square cobbles like these are called setts. They survive on a lot of Northern streets beneath the tarmac.
It looks like the inside of the Kremlin. Funny that.
Does the ornate ironwork serve a structural function as well as a decorative one?
Found this little fellow outside peering into our house tonight. 😂
A pit pony and lots of donkey jackets 🙂
There's something about the warm welcoming glow of a lit window on a dark night.
I remember a railway journey like that when I used to do a daily commute by train from Lancaster to Ulverston, which takes a wide loop round Morecambe Bay.
Two fat persons, click click click
Genre? Easy listening, surely.
And the teeth would have looked worse.
I did a lot of shopping on that street at the turn of the century. It looked exactly like that.
Martin Parr's quest for the quotidian. Love the Morecambe story at the end. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Manchester Town Hall is magnificent. I used to attend a 12-Step meeting in a room there on the ground floor.
The Opera browser has a built-in VPN, free to use. The Mullvad browser has a built-in VPN, fairly cheap to use.
One of my favourite tracks from this album. Simply sublime.
I lived in Lancaster 1978-1996 and worked in and visited Morecambe countless times. In that time, it went from being a thriving holiday destination to a virtual ghost town. It's a very sad story shared, I would guess, by other Lancashire seaside towns like Blackpool and Southport.
Today's Wikipedia learning curve: merging two duplicate citations and creating a Harvard footnote for the one with a pages reference.
Salts Diner is recommended, although it gets very busy and very noisy at peak times. Across Victoria Road, the Boathouse Inn does excellent pub grub.
You've got copy 1110 of the insert and the matrix number is RT 111. (Forgive me, I used to work in record shops back in the vinyl days.)
After aquilegias, fuschias are my favourite garden plant.
I realised today that I have been an active member of Wikipedia for a quarter of my life.
I need to watch that @ 0.75 speed to catch all the faces and the lyrics.
Is he wearing bicycle clips?
youtu.be/oMarHac3VpQ
I'm old enough to remember Reaganomics.
Today's timeline swamp: American sports.
Photo published in a children's book of 1896. wainsgategraveyardproject.co.uk/that-old-tim...
The best thing about MMM was the cover.
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Add a fried egg on top for a chef's kiss. Best eaten with a mug of strong tea.
King's
We've got one here in Baildon.
I ate school dinners for most of the 60s, but I couldn't finish a plate of tripe the only time I tried it. Cooked in milk with onions by my girlfriend from Bradford.
The Opera browser comes with a built-in VPN. It's a Norwegian company.
How on earth did they build these structures?
Daffodils
20 years ago and still… HT @calmeilles@mstdn.social
River Spirit
2 Frosty fairy fronds
For a moment there I thought that jar said Pain System...
You should have done a Sharon on him.
Memories of a DJ friend of mine announcing this as "Pork Salad Annie".
In a life full of rock'n'roll moments, only Ozzy could get busted for taking a drunken leak on a Texas war memorial wearing one of Sharon's dresses.
Locomotive were a 60s favourite of mine, although I never knew that Bonzo had played with them.
Took our children there a number of times in the 80s. There's a little island in the middle that you can swim out to.
This is the Louis van de Maesenstraat in Valkenburg NL.
Snouts, troughs.
What would that have been used for?
That's brilliant!
Conneries
Still Perfidious Albion after all these years.
From the Star Chamber onwards...
Wonderful use of chiaroscuro.
LOL
A sight to gladden the heart of any gardener.
Ox-eye daisies, methinks.
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I wonder if he got it confused with "artistic"?
Funny how Greengrocer Gregg never mentioned being autistic before.
Today my feed is full of rather boring photographs of the sky at sunset or sunrise. Is there a name for this?
There's an interview on this site with Sheila Render, who lived at number 7: whitbymuseum.org.uk/library-arch...
*Territorial Support Group en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territo...
According to the UK government, and thanks to Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, these elderly people are all legally terrorism supporters for holding ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’ signs www.instagram.com/reel/DLunNar... (London)
Lyrics by Los Angeleno poet Toni Stern, who sadly died last year.
"mounts a smear campaign" When you point your finger at someone, there are three pointing back at you.
Late June. Edward Thomas ♥️
For some reason, my feed at the moment features a lot of Australian and moth content. I've tried using the "Show less like this" option, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
I used to get my car fixed at a small garage near my place of work. After a number of visits, they told me that I could have a reduced bill if I paid cash. The amount of the reduction was the VAT.
Pembroke Street?
"random pig iron" Wonderful.
Carrie and Harrison were an item at that time.
Yes, I became a technical writer, so a knowledge of syntax/grammar came in handy. I also taught English as a foreign language for a while, and phonetics was also very useful there.
You'll love it. The joys of a university library, inter-library loans, and studying a subject that excites you with like-minded people. I started my Linguistics degree as a mature student back in 1978.
Two Palestinians showed us first-person videos of what it's like to try and retrieve, and provide, food in Gaza City. By Ang Li, Meg Felling, and me. Heaps of geolocation help too from @fdov21.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Three Weymouth sisters!
So long Brian Douglas Wilson. youtu.be/v75f5W6LgLM?...
Is it a fan palm? It's a fine specimen.
I've just been rewatching Prog Brittania and this article makes for some interesting background reading.
It gave them a chance to gripe about yet another "two-tier" system. Which is odd given that private vs. state schooling is itself a two-tier system of education.
Happy "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" to those who celebrated it in #Edinburgh today. 🤗 ℹ️: www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/the-most-w... 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9t...
The 5D and a Laura Nyro song. A winning combination.
He looks like a member of a 70s prog rock group.
I saw the Stylistics on their 1977 tour.
I've still got my 12" copy of this from 1977. Song written by Shuggie Otis.
A lovely 1988 soul-pop track from Glasgow band Love and Money. music.youtube.com/watch?v=gjkA...
Smoking a churchwarden pipe.
A career starter for keyboardist and song writer Rod Temperton.
*iniquity
Germany’s recent UBI trial showed, once again, that giving people an unconditional monthly income improves mental well-being, stress levels, sleep, and overall life satisfaction — all without reducing working hours. The myth that ‘free money’ turns people into couch potatoes simply isn't true.
Here's a virtual tour of this lovely library: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lid0...
The subject of the Communards' sublime For A Friend. youtu.be/u08O_CdEm1M
www.hilarysketches.co.uk
Where *do* you find these corkers?
It's a lovely display, but how do they get at the items in the middle?
I remember hearing Main Course at a friend's house in 1975 and thinking "This is good". They found their voice with that album.
You may stop writing, but you can't stop being a writer. I edited and reposted a reply yesterday three times to delete extra spaces. Hope you have a good recovery.