The Dereliction
Thinking of my hometown and how I never go there anymore, I thought of Liz Berry
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The Dereliction
Thinking of my hometown and how I never go there anymore, I thought of Liz Berry
🇬🇧 La course annuelle de portage d’épouse au Royaume-Uni s’est déroulée dans le Surrey, en Angleterre, où des équipes ont parcouru un circuit de 380 mètres dans une compétition traditionnelle originaire de Finlande ⤵️
Today marks the first day of meteorological spring 🌷
March has arrived, and with it comes longer, lighter days. Over the next few weeks most of us will enjoy around two extra hours of daylight ☀️
"There, there," a fellow soldier says, patting my shoulder as I weep over the body. "It could have happened to anyone."
"Thanks," I sniff. "That's... quite cliche. Say, do you know a recipe for apple pie in haiku form?"
My hand is already reaching for the fallen gun.
"I want to tell the story again.
That's why I write fiction - so that I can keep telling the story. I return to problems I can't solve, not because I'm an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved."
Jeanette Winterson
Yesterday I bought some trousers & last night I went to the Atlantic (the local disco). There was some nice blokes there, about 3 or 4 Punk blokes & lots of punk girls. My zip broke while I was pogoing & no one seemed to have any safety pins, even the punks.
A SELECTION OF (MOSTLY) EXTINCT OCCUPATIONS Baller: occupation in various sectors, including (in pottery) one who measured balls of clay for throwers, or (in textiles) prepared balls of wool in advance of spinning. Beetle cutter: maker of wooden mallets (beetles) for finishing textiles. Belly man (also bellyer, bellymaker & belly builder): made & assembled sound boards inside pianos. Bender: occupation in various sectors; usually involved bending a material (esp. glass, metal & wood) as part of a larger manufacturing process. Biscuit oddman: responsible for odd jobs around a pottery kiln. Blubberman (also blabber): responsible for the removal of blubber from whale or seal skin. Body builder: made bodies of coaches, carriages, motorcars, tramcars & perambulators. Bogeyman: transporter of ingots, plates or sheets of metal from furnaces to rolling mills and shearing machines on a two-wheeled truck called a 'bogey'. Boner: inserter of whale bones into corsets. Bottom action-maker: manufactured the main bellows of player pianos; fixed the pedals & controls. Bottom stainer: applied paint or stain to the bottom of a boot or shoe. Breeze riddler: riddled or sifted breeze or cinders from furnace ashes for use in a smithy. buddleman & huddler): operator of buddle
A SELECTION OF (MOSTLY) EXTINCT OCCUPATIONS Ear trumpet-maker: maker of ear trumpets & other acoustic instruments for the partially deaf. Eye puncher: operator of a fly press, piercing eye holes into needle blanks. Fat boy: greaser of axles of haulage systems used in mines & quarries. Fellmonger: merchant who washed, cured, processed & sold animal hides & skins (esp. those of sheep). Fiddler: maker of 'fiddles' or 'waists' of boots or shoes. First half doer: turner of points or pivots for the centre, third or fourth wheels of a watch. Flasher: maker of glass discs by rotating bulbs of glass on pontil rods at the mouths of furnaces. Flirter: remover of loose bristles from brushes. Gadger: sewer of cloth hat or cap parts before they went to the machinist for finishing. Gaff hook-maker: forger of frost nails. Gimp-maker: manufacturer of ornamental trims (gimps) in the textiles industry. Helmet underer: fixer of material under the brims of helmets. Higgler: itinerant manufacturer and salesman of various transportable wares, including textiles. Hot-presser: operator of a hot-pressing machine, used to flatten & improve surface of cloth or paper. Hugger: quarryman responsible for carrying blocks of stone to the surface using hugging ladders & saddles. 323
CRAFTLAND Bumboat man: seller of goods from a flat-bottomed "bumboat to the crews of ships anchored nearby. Butt woman: seller of flatfish on quaysides. Calender girl: presser of embroidered articles with a calendering machine. Catgut maker (also gut maker & tharme maker): splitter & cleaner of animal gut for strings of musical instruments. Cave man: responsible for removal of clinkers & ashes from the cave or a tunnel beneath a furnace. Cheeker (also plinther): fitter of ends (cheeks), plinth, toes & feet to upright pianos. Chip chopper: fed wood used by medicinal or dye industries into chipping machines. Cock-maker: maker of bridges for balances or pallets of watches or clocks. Cullet picker: sorted out cullet (waste glass) for remelting. Cure man: responsible for vulcanising rubber products. Dagger sheath mounter: riveter of steel or brass components to leather dagger cases. Dandy roll-maker: maker of dandy roll (part of a papermaking machine). Decomposing man: maker of chlorine gas. Devil: odd-job man (more often, boy) in a printing office.
I'm assured these are all genuine occupations, but it's hard not to hear many of them as casual insults.
(From Craftland by James Fox, ISBN 9781847927866)
Gosh I love these threads
Happy new year!
Oh my god I’m a semiotician.
(A semiologist?)
happy christmas from some angels ... ❤️
a metaphor here about life. sometimes it is really really dark. but at least we know there is generally reversion to the mean.
For Christmas last year I asked for an office-style not-available-in-regular-shops serious sellotape dispenser. Game changer
The Solstice W.S. Merwin
Good morning! Today, I will share a thread of poems for/about winter solstice
Do feel free to add your own or anything else appropriate.
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This one is W.S. Merwin
And a happy solstice to all.
8,500 at Stonehenge to see the light return.
"Of course as a boy I did not think that my timidity would turn out to be invincible. On the contrary, I convinced myself that it would inevitably disappear of its own accord in the face of a growing acquaintance with people and the ways of the world. I counted on experience breaking down my timidity, when in fact timidity would prevent me from gaining experience."
Very rude of this book to expose me like this:
jonny sun @jonnysun hello darkness my old friend why are you here its 4pm
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
Three days ago. No more words.
For the 1st time ever in its 13yr history, tonight my show is a beginners guide to investing. Who should be investing, how much, where & how? I've a panel to answer Qs and think its a crucial topic.
Got questions you want to suggest send them to the team at martinlewis@itv.com
Bilan de l’année :
toujours pas d’airfryer, toujours pas d’abonnement à une plate-forme de streaming quelle qu’elle soit.
Written in pencil in the sealed freight car Here, in this carload, I, Eve, with my son Abel. If you see my older boy, Cain, the son of Adam, tell him that I Dan Pagis
Love this prompt. Here are some more… this one by Dan Pagis
Your favorite tiny poem (under ten lines)? Please share.
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love There is no chance that we will fall apart There is no chance There are no parts. June Jordan
This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
The winter sun rising behind leafless trees
The brilliant news is that in one month's time the days start getting longer
Oh it’s not just me 😅
Oh it’s not just me 😅
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
