What I mean is that on Tw/X I would often see something that interested me and it would be a tweet midway through a thread. An algorithm thing, I suppose. Overall, I prefer the less obtrusive experience here.
Answer: 1865 view of the Senne river and rue des Poissonniers (at the corner of rue Sainte Catherine) from rue du Marché aux Poulets next to Brucity.
I don't think people notice follow ups. I don't myself and see things that interest me a few days later.
First FredThread in a while. They don't seem to work on bluesky.
And an unexpectedly modernist village house by Arsène Tournay. He appears to have trained under Horta and Henry Lacoste before dying fighting in 1940 as a lieutenant. The road is named after him.
On the walk to the abbey from Villers-la-Ville station, a pair of 1900 villas called 'Ivy' and 'Wisteria'. Wallonia's heritage experts describe them as having 'an art nouveau air that's a bit English' and I think they have a point.
Like an exploded view from a manual. People putting up neo-gothic public buildings in the C19 must have found it useful to come here and see how an authentic gothic structure was assembled.
Visitors got to stay in the hostelry from the end of the C13. This is the ground-floor refectory with an amazingly well preserved vaulted stone roof 40m long.
The site straddled the main route from Brussels via Wavre and the C18 pharmacy was built on arches over the roadway. What could go wrong?
Access is via the C13 mill/bakery, up in the lift and over the bridge. This was once a hotel where Victor Hugo stayed (in case you're looking for rare places where he didn't stay).
The setting is very evocative. In the sense that you can grasp the isolation of a big community that built its home - church, dormitories, cloister - from the stone in the well-watered and wooded valley in which it sits.
The ruined Cistercian Abbey of Villers. Amazing and such a quick trip from Brussels.
How has this affected you and what do you want to happen to them?
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
I will stick my face in UK but not Irish politics. But I don't share the cultural or historical view of the UK that most loud voices appear to have.
At a time when once again it's become mainstream to question the identity/loyalty/compatibility of people with foreign heritage, this 'lucky beggars' narrative can just get lost.
El histórico acuerdo de Gibraltar inaugura un nuevo modelo de convivencia en el que Gibraltar y el Campo de Gibraltar avanzan juntos y dan un salto de desarrollo y futuro.
Os dejo mi entrevista en el diario Área.
It's much easier to just say 'any EU citizen', Independent.
Very smart and clean app. Your work or is it an existing platform? I wouldn't know where to start.
Four glasses of draft Boskeun on a wooden table in 't Brugs Beertje. The bar is in the background.
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This is terrible behaviour.
Three months later and exactly 200 miles away in a café in Brussels, working-class Belgians are discussing the destruction of their homes in the North Quarter by identical public-private forces. Unlike at Covent Garden, the fight was lost. auvio.rtbf.be/media/archiv...
1972 A tense residents' meeting in a pub to save Covent Garden from the wreckers segues organically and gloriously into a cockney singalong [from 18:35]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYs7...
Restoration of the exterior of the Brussels City museum on the Grand-Place - last done in 1935(!). Shame it can't be extended into the building behind. It's too dark and cramped.
www.bruzz.be/actua/cultuu...
If the friction of the Schengen opt out was a sweet deal, why aren't people enjoying the Entry Exit System?
Received wisdom says C19 cities housed toffs upwind of industry, whose stink grew with their wealth. London and Paris to the west, where they still are.
Brussels, where the prevailing winds are the same, went its own sweet way, placing the rich to the east. They're not there anymore.
Philippe Stoclet, petit-fils d’Adolphe s’insurge : "Mes grands-parents ont toujours ouvert la maison au public. C’est imbécile de gérer la maison comme ça, ils se foutent du monde, et ne respectent pas ce que mes grands-parents auraient voulu".
www.rtbf.be/article/la-f...
Did the Erasmus re-education laboratory in Paris not produce Suella Braverman?
Utile Dulci from 1924. Early house by Louis Tenaerts in Laeken. Less Dulci since 2018, when it lost almost all of its original woodwork, including the balcony.
Lawyer's house in Schaerbeek from 1908 by Joseph Diongre, architect of the Flagey building. Sgraffites by Privat Livemont.
