£5 Laver bread
£10 Bara brith
£20 Curry half and half
£50 Welsh cake
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£5 Laver bread
£10 Bara brith
£20 Curry half and half
£50 Welsh cake
£5 Greggs sausage roll
£10 Dickinson & Morris pork pie
£20 Gail's sausage roll
£50 Phat Pasty keralan cauliflower, chickpea and onion bhaji pasty [this is objectively the peak of the pasty art, I will not be taking questions on this matter]
Herring endorses fish
I mean if we're going to be stuck with humans....
(All images from Wikipedia)
Straight to the Welsh dragon, pass go, collect £200
The red dragon of Wales
£50 is the Welsh dragon because dragons are everything to everyone everywhere. They can be jealous hoarders of gold, or wise advisors, or shape shifters. Nothing beats a dragon, and it does not pay to laugh at them
Woodcut of a unicorn with the words "Of the UNICORN" written above a creature which is shown with a mane as well as a horn that looks so long it should be falling over
(That was the £10 note obviously)
£20 is Scotland, the unicorn, the most elusive and beautiful of mythical creatures. Don't think too closely about the stories of maidens laying the horn in their laps and the creature shedding a creamy tear, it gets sleazy too quickly
Male lion sitting in the sun, mane a mix of yellow and black
Female lion sitting in the sun, looking at the camera as if she's considering eating the person using it
Next up, England's national animal is also real, but wins points for being nothing to do with England. The lion is an immigrant, a brave and transformative outsider so powerfully integrated into national symbolism that the English forget it's an immigrant
A black and white bird with orange bill, legs and ring around the eye, walking along a shoreline
Disappointingly, Northern Ireland has no national animal but it seems the Eurasian oystercatcher is considered its national bird, at least unofficially. So that's your £5 (it is a real animal that is native to the place, nothing against it but it's not thrilling)
The UK is made up of four nations so clearly if we're going animals these should be the national animals on a rising scale of awesomeness
But that won't get the clicks!!!
Chaucer and Dante?
£5 - Badger Badger Badger Badger
£10 - Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger
£20 - Mushroom (Mushroom)
£50 - Snaaaaaaaaaaaaake
Gould reads a score by Bach as his producer Howard Scott looks on.
"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven & Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
- Douglas Adams
📷 Glenn Gould by Gordon Parks
Gilmour onstage with his guitar
David Gilmour performs at Douglas Adams: The Party, on what would have been Adams' 60th birthday, March 11, 2012
📷 Dave M. Benett
Black & white portrait of Adams, his hand to his face.
Douglas Adams by Steve Pyke, 1994
"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."
- an Adams quote from The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
An extreme closeup of Adams' face, with his fingers partially obscuring it
Douglas Adams by Dan Callister, Santa Barbara, 2000
"You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken."
A printing press. To the left a plate full of set moveable type and 'spacers', to the right the other part of the printing press.
'The difference between workaday ‘words on a page’ and ‘design’ is, invariably, mostly in the whitespace.'
Greatly enjoyed @loreandordure.com on learning the process of typesetting & printing on a moveable-type letterpress.
ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...
a creature so stupid that it assumes if you can't see it, it can't see you
“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.”
“Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he? Is he?”
Eleven year old me laughed at that hysterically for hours.
Fifty-four year old me is grinning from ear to ear even now.
Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?
🚩Feminism is Revolutionary 🚩
40% off books on feminism, now until March 15th
www.plutobooks.com/feminism-is-...
But it's alright ma, I'm only bleeding
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS
Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS
Reminded of buying a second hand copy of the 2003 Donald Barthelme's *Sixty Stories* in Penguin Classics and finding this. Guess which website no longer exists?
No injustice anywhere is a "distraction" from a liberation struggle elsewhere.
Our freedom is bound up together, just like our oppressors are.
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.