Spring is happening even though the skies are mainly grey
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Spring is happening even though the skies are mainly grey
Yellow bellied, yellow faced with black eye stripe, black head and crest, black chin, olive backed, black and white wings and tail, perched on rim of pot, photo.
Tit of the Day:
Himalayan Black-lored Tit
📷 Nitin Chandra
Painting of a townscape at dusk or dawn with a large square with many people walking and with a row of buildings in the background with lights in the windows, the scene is all bathed in blue light
'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt
This was the portrait that made me feel positive at The National Portrait Gallery earlier this week.
My dad was a member of TGWU and always said how grateful he was to his branch for support in hard and difficult times.
Pine marten (Leitrim)
Fox (Birmingham)
Peregrine falcon (Symonds Yat Rock)
Badger (bucks)
Snowy Owl (Witney on Wye)
A close-up of a kestrel, with very fluffy legs visible below otherwise smooth feathers
Today's kestrel - back in the same spot and showing us those beautifully fluffy legs 😍
Liberton #Edinburgh #birds
Pretty in Erdington’s Rookery Park
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Cover of INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s: THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY by Justin Lewis (me) 'An epic compendium of stories and trivia from the 80s music scene'
OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.
Rue Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions. No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial. I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms, by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
Watery times are back
The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.
In ep 15 of #FirstLastAnything, from Sept 2022, the violinist, arranger and musical director Helen O’Hara (@oharaviolin.bsky.social) talked about her role in the remarkable saga of Dexys, her work with Tanita Tikaram and her excellent memoir What She’s Like.
firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...
Another massive part of what local govt is doing, in the same space, is competing with the home office *for the same housing*
A very different place. A verve now that’s been knocked out of it in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
And also still the same in other ways.
Hello
Blue sky with nice cloudy sky in Manchester.
Piccadilly gardens with a nice buzz.
It’s a much maligned place, but better than it was in the ‘90s.
Having a little weep realising it’s more prevalent a way than I’d like to freely recognise
What a time to be alive when readiness to debase self is what’s making the world go around
Wishing you good care, and a steady full recovery
I’ve watched it and got muddled. The plot hole possibly passed me by
Karma belief feels the one many want to be true when it’s one the meanest most misplaced things
This Madonna set is as fabulous as I recalled from 1985, #liveaid1985.
Setvthecstyle scene for that summer’s school discos.
It’s helped him keep being noticed so it’s kind of worked out okay for him
Has he ever had good hair?
Next Tuesday (15th) I'm in Liverpool interviewing Kevin Rowland at this event at Rough Trade marking the publication of his autobiography - July 15th. £29 a ticket includes the book (cover price £25), which Kevin will sign at the end of the event www.visitliverpool.com/event/kevin-...
So that’s who Thrale’s restaurant in Lichfield was named after. Restaurant now long gone
Yes. Jarvis C did use the “f” bomb in Birmingham the other week as the keyboards were too loud for him. He’d tried gestures, then had to yell out when that hadn’t transmitted
As far as I recall, she didn’t break into it with Take That performances, but I may be misrecalling/erasing sharp memories.
That’s how it goes.
Question: if coupé glasses aren’t any good for sparkling drinks, what are they good for?