This looks a fantastic tool for people involved / interested in local activism

London’s Alleys: Footpath to Kensington Court, W8 This side passage off busy Kensington High Street looks poshly unremarkable for the area, but played an important role in the development of electricty.

London's Alleys: Footpath to Kensington Court, W8

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This side passage off busy Kensington High Street looks poshly unremarkable for the area, but played an important role in the development of electricty.

Apple blossom - pink and white petals with yellow centres, among green leaves

Apple blossom - one of my favourite signs of spring

With the successful recovery of small mammal species on Hackney Marshes predators have returned, including Kestrels, so we’ve put a kestrel box on a large standing log pile.
#renature

Families: my child need a specialist provision as they struggled in mainstream resulting in parents losing employment and pupils now at home .

Gov: We need an “inclusive” agenda to get more of these children in mainstream.

Gov: schools need to fix attendance.

CAMHS : 2 years waiting period .

Our family story in a nutshell 💔

1/2 In 1954 photo-journalist Grace Robertson accompanied a party of women from a pub in Bermondsey on a day trip to Margate. Her series of photos were published in ‘Picture Post’ under the title of ‘Mothers’ Day Off.’

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Tree limbs clad in a thick cover of epiphytic mosses and ferns cantilever out across water: the very essence of rainforest. 🌎

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when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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Congratulations Beverley - so fantastic you have been recognised for all your - and FRG's - amazing work 🎉

I think anyone who can’t work out when the milk will run out really shouldn’t be allowed out on their own

Tulip Siddiq was given London flat by developer with links to ousted Bangladeshi government UK City minister still owns King’s Cross property she was handed in 2004

Blimey if I want to be nice to my friends I might give them a bottle of wine or a book. Not a flat in central London.

I do think MPs are very removed from the lives of ordinary people.

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The cultural underbelly Recently I bought a new car. It’s very fast and very yellow. Here’s a picture of me and Mr ThesisWhisperer with it: I bought my first new car at 50 – a Tesla. Now, four years late…

New year, new Thesis Whisperer post! This one is all philosophical and stuff. thesiswhisperer.com/2025/01/01/t...

This is a great piece of writing about an infuriating example of everyday sexism.

And to you & your family 🎄🎁

Sounds similar to ours, one keeps to routine, one all over the place. I’m managing a quiet coffee right now ☕️

Same with my dad. Plus several storage spaces with random stuff he has kept “in case it is useful to you”. For 30 years. It’s all going in a skip.

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

Things are going from bad to verse

A painting of the Kent countryside. Elm trees, Oast Houses, trees in blossom, and a man driving a horse and cart

Roland Hilder - The Weald of Kent

A regular theme for the artist throughout his life

Our woodland is in the Weald of Kent. ‘Weald’ is Old English for woodland, or Wald in Modern German

The Weald has the highest tree cover in England at 28%

Allow parents to fine teachers over teachers’ bad behaviour

As a youth, Alan Garner was set the task in an English class of adding an extra character to The Canterbury Tales. He wrote about ‘The Spyve’: ‘a fag doun drooped upon his hair-edged lippe/while sold he nylons, rum (ten bob a nippe). Garner ends: ‘he flogged cars upon our pilgrimage.’

Cover of book The Little Tree by Susan Whyte

Very proud of my friend Susan who has written this beautiful children’s book. She doesn’t have the marketing machine of Walliams but worth checking out if you like engaging nature writing for kids.

And as the leaves disappear until spring, a view through what was a thick canopy opens up...

To reveal an ocean. 🌍

And the Poll Tax went so well last time 🤷🏻‍♀️

My nephew is one semester away from earning his CPA degree. Last week, as he was wrapping up the semester, he submitted a paper in his technical writing class. The professor said he had run it through an "AI detector" which said there was a 90% chance that three sections of the paper were AI

A paved road through a wintered wood that still holds its colours. Despite the modernity of Tarmac and speed sign, the way feels ancient, painfully ancient. You know travelling this route is to move through the feral imagination of the land.

Those old roads, deer-carved before man walked them, are routes into England's deep stories. They take us through woods where Woodwoses hunt, Moss Maidens nest. Take us over hollow hills where old kings sleep and tunnels to St. Martin's Land may be found. These are roads into mystery. – Dr. M. Benn

The dying days of an empire