Welcome to nearly-but-not-quite standard British prices (average before last month was around US$6.50). This is why we have small cars, and like living within walking distance of shops.
Frost's house was up for sale last year - I am hoping he may have left the area by now.
Great premise for a dystopian novel. Not so great as current and future reality.
At least that makes a bit more sense geographically: Parkway is closer to UWE, Temple Meads is closer to UoB. But Cambridge Station is also the one for the other local uni, whatever it's called...
I would like to vote for a party that said: "we keep being buffeted by forces outside our control. This is because we've allowed our capabilities to degrade. We're going to build them up again so some moron can't just bankrupt us with a stupid idea. It will take a while but here's the plan".
Oh no, not another one to get stuck on... Wordle and quordle are getting a bit boring, though, so maybe it's time for another one. I played squaredle.com 03/07:
62/62 words (+18 bonus words)
📖 In the top 21% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
Thank you 💙🙏
If you are looking for heavyweight literary backers, it might be worth trying to contact Richard Flanagan. His book Question 7 essentially said that he would not exist if Rebecca West and HG Wells had not met.
And Waiting for the Out. British TV drama is doing well at the moment.
I think a son of his was trying to make it in motor racing in Italy at one point
Was Arakicho the one in an old Japanese building, with modern Italian furniture? I rather liked that one. Very 90s Japan.
Our other favourite round there, Le Bretagne, has its 30th anniversary this year, and Bertrand Larcher has gone on to build an empire of creperies around Japan and France (plus hotel, cooking school, farm etc).
I remember that place! Haven't been for years... Carmine has gone, hasn't it? We used to like his little pizza place, La Volpaia, near there too.
It's the placement of the letters for the rows on the steps that causes problems. I have never got confused at any other cinema but the first time I went to the Garden Cinema, I ended up in the wrong row, as did several other people. When you get to row G/H it is not as obvious as 3rd row = C.
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
Throwback to my teenage anti-nuclear activist days...
This could easily be the basis of a question in the "Life in the UK Test", which you take when applying for British citizenship. "Explain why this was a reaction to news of Andrew's arrest". bsky.app/profile/robm...
I think it was a lost cause once the ground floor was butchered up to become shops. I haven't been for ages, but from what I remember there really hasn't much left of the original cinema interior left for years.
So Goodwin has done the Kinder bit this week, now we have the Kirche obligation. Which one of them is going to tell women to get back in the kitchen? And maybe take their shoes off while they are at it.
It looks a bit big to be levered up and put on the back of a truck, like they do in Australia.
'House of dreams' and 'Hendon' don't really seem to go together, though. I wonder if modernist houses can be dismantled and moved somewhere else?
Remember what happened last time she met a prominent elderly person with IV-related bruising on their hand?
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And then you find that the tax office will only accept one middle name/initial on their forms, whereas your passport has both middle names, and your driving licence for some reason only has your initials, so the tax office won't accept either as ID verification for paying a refund. Aaargh...
That's next on my list, I think - we just watched Waiting for the Out, which was excellent.
I was going to be called Peredur if I had been a boy. Great name if you live in Wales, probably not so great growing up in England or living in Japan, Taiwan, Germany etc. The 'th' in Bethan was hard enough for everyone to pronounce.
Now following this thread for all the recommendations for cool Tuvan throat singers. My tip: Yat Kha youtu.be/tXgzc--MgvA?...
Something compelled me to make this
Somebody on here recommended Waiting for the Out (BBC iPlayer) - maybe @jacquiwine.bsky.social? If so, thank you! It was excellent: tense, intelligent, thought-provoking on fatherhood, addiction, the prison system and much else. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
His wishes may soon be granted, once the sub judice rules kick in. In the meantime, I think the public is definitely interested.
Congratulations!
