Roadmaker - laminated junior Town Planning for youngsters who yearned to feel the grit of real cardboard beneath their Matchbox wheels, composed of interlocking parts that should have been too big to 'lose' but found their way deep behind sofas regardless.
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A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
The cover of Nonesuch by Francis Spufford. It’s maroon, pink and gold. The image shows the dome of St Paul’s (referencing the famous Blitz photo) surrounded by what I can only describe as mystical swirls, and the image of a woman walking along a bridge in the sky.
I’ve just finished Nonesuch by Francis Spufford, which is both enormously entertaining and beautifully written. I normally take agin fantasy, but I’m a sucker for books about plucky young women in the Blitz, so I stuck with it and I’m very glad I did.
TV Tops - short-run putative channel-straddling non-compelling Look-In rival, notoriously home to a strip in which Kings Of The Wild Frontier-era Adam Ant was catapulted into deeply surreal post-Sapphire And Steel adventures pitting him against elemental forces.
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Many of these smoked glass and off gold shopping palaces have already gone , and soon many more more will follow. People in future will think we only ever had the odd Victorian arcade and Gregg's
‘Best game Wales has played so far’: Welsh media take glimmers of hope from Ireland defeat
History note: In 1953 Kermit Roosevelt led the CIA to overthrow Persia's democratic government to protect US oil, installing a puppet Shah. Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, betrayed by the US & exiled to France, swore revenge on the US's treachery. The US created Iran. www.harvardmagazine.com/2010/12/kerm...
A multi-view card with four quadrants. Top left is the suspended copper fountain in one of the interior courtyards, next to a bank of escalators. Top right is a shot of the roof garden with lawns and a water feature. Bottom left is an interior shot of one of the courtyards, with a prominent sign saying "Centre Court". Bottom right is an aerial view showing the centre from above - a square footprint surrounded by a large car park.
Southland Shopping Centre, Cheltenham, Victoria 2/2
More than 40 years ago, I spent a night on a beanbag listening to Beryl Bainbridge reading one of her books from cover to cover.
But after all this time, I haven’t the foggiest idea which one it was.
Visiting an old friend in Britain this weekend. Waiting for my train. I have bought appropriate reading.
Nothing more beautiful than a 1960s era west Berlin cinema at night.
Today's spaghetti western: FASTHAND IS STILL MY NAME www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Mi...
Ghastly Jokes • Al Jaffee
#snappysaturday
#SpeirGorm ☘️ #SpéirGhorm 📚💙 #BookSky
"A lifelong smoker, who towards the end cut down to “only thirty a day or so,” she lived in a terrace in Camden, clotted with bizarre bric-a-brac including a buffalo’s head in the hallway and a lifesize dummy of Neville Chamberlain (which started out as Adolf Hitler, but was later repurposed)."
Here's a playlist of 40 Isley Brothers classics from four decades. Hard to think of another group that has excelled across so many different musical genres - rock'n'roll, R&B, soul, funk, disco, slow jams, pop, AOR, protest songs, folk rock...
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With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck et al in ‘Ball of Fire’ (1941)
special guest of the week goes to CMAT, baby.
three nights at the Barrowlands and still time to support a local indie record shop.
#EUROCOUNTRY
@cmatbaby.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)
Thank you very much, James.
Thanks heaps, Chris. Very kind of you.
Thanks very much, Paul! Cheers.
Thank you @jacquiwine.bsky.social . Fingers crossed & will keep you posted
#LeWo0126
Ea geht weiter mit Michael Collins und dem 11. Fall für Dan Fortune, dem einarmigen Detektiv
#alexaliest #hardboiled #Krimis #krimitante #buchsky #bücherliebe
Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."
So, in 1969, the Isley Brothers held a legendary soul & gospel revue at Yankee Stadium, released in cinemas in 1970, after which it was never put on video or online and was something of a holy grail. This week, an HD copy surfaced: Part One. Highlight: Patti Austin
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Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.
Michael Palin as a boring prophet in Life of Brian
"And there shall be great confusion as to where things really are, and who is the plumber and who the philosopher, especially when it comes to fitting those little attachments over the thingy..."
Thank you, that’s lovely of you to say so.
