Top marks for apposite early cinema reference
08.03.2026 16:01
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Top marks for apposite early cinema reference
Starting the day with coffee and a watering can. As one does.
A Month in the Country and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Moon and cathedral #Rochester
The Travelers' World and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
I've got an idea for redesigning the hallway
Remembering Don Swift of the National Film Archive, with a few thoughts on cataloguing films lukemckernan.com/2026/02/25/c...
Top row (L-R), Don Swift, Scott Meek, Clive Truman, David Francis, Markku Salmi, Tim Cotter, Dorly Minich, Anne Burton, Elaine Burrows, Roger Holman
Middle row (L-R): Jan Faull, Liz Heasman, Shirley Pluckrose, Michelle Aubert, Dave Meara, Dinah Marmery
Front row: Clyde Jeavons
Well done @britishlibrary.bsky.social on digitising P.R. Harris's A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 (1998), the essential study. Background story here: www.bl.uk/stories/blog... and copy on the BL's Research Repository here: bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/book...
A Canticle for Leibowitz and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Rochester, early morning
The Journalists and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
A few days in The Hague
A suitcase
(The Jewish Monument in The Hague)
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
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Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Medway at Rochester, sun rising
So sorry I wasn't there. I did mentally wish you and everyone there a happy 100th.
The usual good haul of S/H books after a wet but restorative week in the Lake District
Thank you Richard.
I hope to see you in Faversham!
"Commence to dancin'
Commence to prancin'
Commence advancin'..."
Thoughts on the grace of Laurel and Hardy lukemckernan.com/2026/01/21/g...
The grace of Laurel and Hardy lukemckernan.com/2026/01/21/g...
At Joseph Conrad's grave, Canterbury
I shall be expecting to find this in all good homes www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Many thanks Linda. We're quite happy too.
Thank you Alfred
Thank you Sergio. And a happy new year to you.
Engaged to @marjakingma.bsky.social