How to look unimpressed when your partner is showing off
How to look unimpressed when your partner is showing off
Just completed the DCMC BBC charter review survey. It's not exactly quick work but it is a labour of love and I would encourage others to give it a go before the closing date on Tuesday. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Thatβs a lot of wheels for a βbikeβ
It's 5 years ago this month that Steven Spurrier die so wrote a thing about one of the great gents of the wine world henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/steven-spu...
Every house needs a secret door that leads to a secret room, but well, there are secret rooms and then there are...
Bronze statue (Ashmolean Museum)
A bronze statuette of a Hindu saint, acquired by the Ashmolean in 1967, has been returned to a temple in Tamil Nadu. The Ashmolean had been alerted to doubts around its provenance in 2019 and voluntarily approached Indian authorities for an investigation.
www.ashmolean.org/press/return...
Iβm going to guess WC
Iβm surprised they were giving that out in 1974! There was a pre-war copy in my grandparentsβ house and I always found it disturbing and unsuitable for children like myself. Which didnβt stop me reading it, though! All part of my impression that people in the past were weird
Blue sky, white blossom, pink blossom, and fresh yellow-green leaves on the trees. Darker green leaves of ivy and grass that has seen out the winter
The Colours of Spring
βCome gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallor from a promise that's nature's giftβ
Canadaβs national motto: βBordering on the ridiculousβ ?
Blue sky, white blossom, pink blossom, and fresh yellow-green leaves on the trees. Darker green leaves of ivy and grass that has seen out the winter
The Colours of Spring
βCome gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallor from a promise that's nature's giftβ
The Evening After Full Moon just risen over the horizon. Looming over it a giant evergreen tree that sits in the middle of an apple orchard. Everything bar the moon and the March night is in darkness
The giants are in conversation.
A jade-green circle of lichen on a green-brown tree trunk with a muddy path behind looking almost purple brown
A mysterious composition I found today in a tree in the woods. Nature copying Andy Goldsworthy
Food and drink seem to spring to mind, but which? Smells of coffee and bacon and bread are irresistible
(Yes, I do like breakfast)
Both very good responses
What it says in the post, with a blue sky above streaked with fuzzy white contrails
Red, orange, yellow over the wall at the end of the park. The yellow flowers are a laburnum tree, the rest are two colours of pyracantha berries. A welcome burst of colour at the end of winter
A sinkhole that opened up on Davyhulme Park Golf Club, Trafford, Greater Manchester revealed to an abandoned wine cellar that was part of Davyhulme Hall manor house which was demolished in 1888. π
BBC News - Sinkhole reveals forgotten wine cellar under golf course
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wake? Are you sure that isnβt what Roscoeβs dreams look like?
As you say, it would have been better for the government to say why it was done
Are these facts available to the general public? Or do you have special access? Seems surprising that the press wouldnβt have picked up on it
The angle is nice
I think street art is more than just a piece of artwork. The street is part of the effect too
Twenty years of spring @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
Into the forest β¦
Five or six old green tree trunks grown together on a dark mossy bank where their gnarled roots spread and twist
The old trees that grasp the land
Common Peephole Β Β She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldnβt stop it. Β Thatβs when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston
Pulp poetry.
Absolutely β’ Dressage (without the Horses)
How long before the smart ones put mirrors on the underside of their drones?
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
St Margaret of Antioch protected herself from the dragon in her cell by telling it ghost stories. It found these so frightening that she had to lend it a security blanket to fend off panic attacks.
Yawn! Not βsingβ. I was wondering what βsigβ could mean