So many heavy weights, it’s a wonder the floor doesn’t give way.

Campbell Archibald Mellon captured the fleeting glories of the English seaside summer, the escape for many thousands to Gorleston in Norfolk. His paintings (this is c1930) often stressed a celebratory brightness or as here, a typically grey day on the coast.

Charles Ginner's work was painted from one of the windows of his sister's house at Boscastle in Cornwall in the late summer of 1928. Views from windows were a distinctive theme in his personal artistic vocabulary.

I used to follow Richard over on the other place and his tweets always brightened my day. I’ve just discovered he’s on here now and is still posting beautiful paintings from the early C20th. Well worth a follow.

Early in his career, Charles Ginner preferred to paint interiors and street scenes, but after WW1 turned his attention to meticulous study of landscape. Here he paints Hampstead Heath in London in the spring of 1932.

Ethelbert White had a liking for a simple and unconventional way of life with his wife Betty. They travelled around the English countryside in their gypsy caravan 'Reading', producing paintings of what even in the 1920s was bygone village life.

We saw this Bullied, Eddystone, yesterday as it passed through on its way back out of the county. Magnificent sight but forgot to take photos.

A collection of plants in pots on gravel. One flowering enthusiastically in pink.

Lovely spring day of the kind that makes me enthusiastically and annoyingly happy. That and my son tidied up the garden outside the back door. Might even sit outside.

Rude names, railways and a mass trespass - how the Peak District became a tourist attraction It became the UK's first national park 75 years ago, but has been attracting visitors for longer.

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You’ve got some eye. Enjoying your photos tremendously.

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

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"A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Solar reactor uses old battery acid to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste—such as drink bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams—using acid recovered from old car b...

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Start your week with some Cornish calm, and the magic of Kynance Cove. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

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a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is making an angry face and the man is smiling ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is making an angry face and the man is smiling

They still haven’t fixed the stinky loo problem on Voyagers, even on the refurbished trains.

As Artemis II astronauts speed toward the moon, the lunar loo is again on the fritz The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon, and the toilet aboard the Orion capsule is acting up again. The mission is on track Monday to reach deeper into space than any crewed space...

Anyone who has travelled on a Cross Country Voyager between Plymouth and Aberdeen understands exactly what they’re going through right now. Thoughts and prayers.

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Seems quite quaint. Like something from the world of Greenshield and Coop stamps.

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It does feel as if we’re staring at the burning barn whilst the farm house is being looted.

Definitely interesting. I live in Cornwall and the botanical richness of the place is a constant surprise.

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

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