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Magyarul tanulok. Nagyon nehéz van!

British parents moved there in 1960s to Whiteplains NY then San Jose CA because "economic opportunity". Last visited 1977, never going back.

Colour image of the main square in Bergamo, Italy

Bergamo

River Crane

My childhood cinema was the Plaza in Romsey, converted to a bingo hall in the 1980s, still open as a theatre!

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François Truffaut — Tirez sur le pianiste - 1960 share.google/tfmqdnNAyv4X...

"Southern Nights" by Glen Campbell. Or the 1812 overture.

Can confirm.

I got it in one too.

Duolingo makes me say things like "Are you swimming inside or outside?", a phrase never uttered by a human.

Avenant?

Stripes go the wrong way.

Yes and yes!

Melvyn Hayes is still very much alive, according to Wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_...

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Ompteda - Wikipedia

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Why ‘Bishop of St Pancras’ is losing faith in his heating ‘It’s bang, bang, bang, bang... the pipe-banging goes on and on – I haven’t slept for 72 hours’

Absolutely glorious local news story that has very little to do with anything it's supposed to be about, Camden New Journal is great. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/why-...

1998 Buick Le Sabre

I once drove one of these around Canada. It was as manoeuvrable as a hovercraft.

The radical simplicity of GOV.UK’s logopublic digitalpublic digital A blog post about the importance of simple, trusted, user centred design. Doing the hard work to make it simple.

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The school I work at has the staff dress up, not the kids. Exactly for this reason. We have to explain who we've come as, and why we chose that character, and explain to the kids why we like the character and book they're from.

a (very timely) reminder of the legacy of germany’s partition:

Sunday League Footy, by Teesside artist Philip Meadows. #NorthernArt

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Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers? YouTube video by Chris Spargo

Interesting story

cc @planningtransport.co.uk @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

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For the love of god, the overweight squirrels of North London are now eating Viennese Whirls.

Love this one too

If you are interested in why I rave about the Torridon Hills, Channel 4 now.

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi:

"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....

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