@richardfadams
Descendant of vikings. Head of Architecture in rail, & artist, musician & educator. Prof, Principal, public speaker, author, founder. LCM, RSC, BBC, Sky, XBOX, LNER & more. Published/Exhibited. Charity chair. PROWIBO. BAFTA, FRSA, Soc of Authors. Dry SOH
It’s a desperately bad feeling for men and women but is only usually framed as a woman’s issue. Before we had two I used to have nightmares about infinity (hard to explain) which stopped at the conception of kid 1. Never had it again. I’d have had ten if we could have. apple.news/A-Nyn20GGRs2...
Yeah definitely a a Reliant Regal.
The Febrile Mind is the work of a restlessly curious ex-academic with deep roots in technology, art, and British culture — and it reads that way. The writing moves freely between the nostalgic and the analytical, from richly researched dives into British cultural history (the origins of Father Christmas, the quiet mythological darkness of Noggin the Nog) to a broader, sceptical engagement with the effects of digital technology on society and culture. What ties it together is a very particular voice: learned but self-deprecating, affectionate but clear-eyed, and always shot through with a dry wit that stops it from taking itself too seriously — what you yourself call “flippancy.” It’s essentially the personal intellectual journal of someone who genuinely can’t stop thinking about things, and doesn’t particularly mind if only 46 people are reading.
This is Claude’s summary of my substack - fairly accurate
substack.com/@richardfadams
It’s out surprising. Imagine the security and economic boost we would have from being self reliant on renewables. apple.news/AvPsoqqrQQAC...
Cobblers in Ripley. A low ramshackle building
Not enough shops around anymore that are like this.
Three antiselfies prints framed and on a Wall
This kitchen triptych scares guests away.
Have to say that watching Small Prophets, how wonderful it is that someone is working within a contemporary Anglicana so beautifully. Cul de sac land. Mackenzie Crook keeps crafting new myths so beautifully through his work.
Also while driving round noticed the way that road markings have been allowed to fade away so much. Within 30 years at least 50% of vehicles will be self driving and the markings will have to be pristine. So much work to do to make EV self-driving function effectively.
Just had a rare treat of a bag of crisps. It was a Walkers “Grab Bag” but it’s only the size of a normal bag. Shrinkflation at work. Another brand cheating us.
Wrath of Khan had two perfect male sci-fi leads. Both over acted, chewing scenery, utterly committed. But Montalban not only matched Shatner in acting, he also did music music.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOJ...
Epstein, Andrew and Mandy togather
Bloody hell. It’s like a mirror universe supergroup
I use copilot to summarise my week done and the plans for the week ahead. It also tells me that I’m about to enter meeting/call 24 this week.
Breaker breaker 4-9 we got ourselves a convoy
South of Waterloo. A fence, terraced house roofs and top of a new block of flats.
Path between buildings with zig zags and strong shadows
View of Woking from high up facing south over ten railway lines
Three distant urban landscapes #photography
Watching a Woman of Substance and they keep calling bobs shillings, in Yorkshire!!!! Which is odd. Also on the subject of cash what was the point of a guinea? Was it the cash equivalent of turning it up to 11 in spinal Tap.
council houses with knobs on except owned by greedy rapacious capitalists. they keep thinking they've invented something new. Remember when Uber announced they'd invented buses?
A distant woman stands lit by a spotlight waiting for a light in a multi story car park. Cripes.
Vertical columns with different textures and tones. The columns are different faces of tower blocks. Zoiks!
The pipes and tanks of a heating system on top of a shopping mall roof. Blimey!
Looking up a tower block from the bottom at an extreme angle. The ground floor is blue glass and has the logo of Gail’s in red on it. Cripes!
Woking #photography #woking #surrey #architecture
One of my Substack article read out loud by an AI of my posher brother
17 mins long so easy to consume
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Painting of me. Expressionistic
Sick to death of disrupted sleeping..
Some of my favourites of my own music
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Labour Party is just shit these days aren’t they?
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Latest substack from the miserable old bugger.
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How big IS your head?
News like this just doesn’t get enough coverage. Well done NHS and others.
![“External candidates are said to include Nick Sutton, the former World At One editor who left the BBC for Sky in 2019, and potentially Katy Searle, who used to run political coverage for the BBC.
Staff say the lack of internal candidates is a sign of the “diminution” of the programme that has come with cost-cutting. Today no longer has its own reporters, and the number of producers, who work intensely antisocial hours, has dwindled.
“Today’s producers are brilliant, but they’re increasingly hard pressed and as a result, presenters are increasingly having to use Google rather than rely on any briefing,” said a Today employee. “We get a lot of top people on [for interviews], but we also now get a lot of substandard packages, the same stuff that goes everywhere else. It’s become part of the BBC news sausage machine. That shouldn’t be how you treat a flagship.
“If you are going to have a flagship programme in a time of cuts, you should not only protect it, but invest in it, to make sure people believe that there’s something about the BBC that’s worth saving.”
There is hope that the new head of news, who will be ”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awyhddsb5ire6vltgrahb7yb/bafkreiei4a2n6mgh5ujdfrp6lcsnangtukprk34uqxwaxzmr6q6yegzv2e)
“External candidates are said to include Nick Sutton, the former World At One editor who left the BBC for Sky in 2019, and potentially Katy Searle, who used to run political coverage for the BBC. Staff say the lack of internal candidates is a sign of the “diminution” of the programme that has come with cost-cutting. Today no longer has its own reporters, and the number of producers, who work intensely antisocial hours, has dwindled. “Today’s producers are brilliant, but they’re increasingly hard pressed and as a result, presenters are increasingly having to use Google rather than rely on any briefing,” said a Today employee. “We get a lot of top people on [for interviews], but we also now get a lot of substandard packages, the same stuff that goes everywhere else. It’s become part of the BBC news sausage machine. That shouldn’t be how you treat a flagship. “If you are going to have a flagship programme in a time of cuts, you should not only protect it, but invest in it, to make sure people believe that there’s something about the BBC that’s worth saving.” There is hope that the new head of news, who will be ”
I’ve stopped listening to the Today Show on BBC Radio 4 - each day it’s increasingly just a cut and paste show with one big interview biased in favour of neoliberal economics and social policy.
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Everyone occasionally jumped through a door window and was pulled in by passengers
Just watching Crufts. How fit are the handlers?????
Just said if my hair was back to its youthful thickness and length I’d be glad if it was white so I could have it styled and sculpted in white and the OH chimed in “like Jimmy Savile?”
