Please don't use speaker phone while in library. Ask for headphones at the front desk.

Only a fallen society needs this sign

Yup. Daughter-in-law.

PM lived in Hampstead and wrote about divorce.

Murdoch? P Mortimer? Bernice Rubens?

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

Ah thanks so much! It is! We are well - just had fourth grandchild Orlando! Hope to catch up soon.

Detail of a fresco showing a dish of eggs and some dead birds hanging above it

Four near complete eggs sitting in a black dish

Happy Easter!
Life imitating art. Fresco of dish of eggs from the Praedia of Julia Felix, #Pompeii and an exhibit of eggs that astonishingly survived the AD 79 eruption in Herculaneum. 🥚🥚🥚

@boatmancryptics.co.uk three-quarters done! And I dreamt one answer …(r***** c*****). Phew!

Happy Easter Alan!!

Finishing Glorious Exploits. Can’t bear to. What a 📕!

Getting there! Done 5 which is more than usual! Finished Yank yesterday..

Image reads: "EXTRAORDINARY SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK SELLS FOR £11,000!" It mentions a rare first edition of "The Sign of Four" sold at Bonhams with proceeds to Oxfam. Featured are book covers: "Pride and Prejudice", "Clockwork Orange", and "The Sign of Four".

A book, "Stride Toward Freedom" by Martin Luther King Jr., sits next to an inscribed note from King. The book's cover features King's portrait. Text: "Also up for grabs was a copy of 'Stride Toward Freedom' - inscribed by Martin Luther King himself!"

A shot of the spines of three books: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, The Tiger who came to tea, and Midst Himalayan Mists by R.J. Minney. Text reads: And some incredible first editions including “Pride and Prejudice,” and Narnia: Prince Caspian”!

A super-rare Sherlock Holmes novel just raised £11,000 for Oxfam 📚

It sold at auction with first editions of “Pride and Prejudice” and "A Clockwork Orange,” and a copy of “Stride Toward Freedom” signed by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. All proceeds from the sale went to Oxfam 💫

#FoundInOxfam

I wish I was able to do your crosswords. Always stumped.

Social Prescribing Day 2026 - The National Academy for Social Prescribing Social Prescribing Day is on the 26th March 2026 - get involved and share your stories

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@georgiamann.bsky.social I’m with the chap you just quoted. Went to a come and sing at the German church Knightsbridge lately. Mind blowing ! And the choir director is doing SJP at St Giles cripple gate this fri evening. A must.

Keir Starmer has dragged the UK into this war against our will.

UK bases face further attacks - putting military personnel and civilians in the potential line of fire.

This is a Prime Minister who promised a vote before any military action - that must now happen on Monday.

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@willnorman.co.uk
Hey just saw I won’t be able to take my e-bike on the overground anymore. Fair enough.
Please can you in return attend to the bicycle boxes on the roads and make them motorbike free? Then it’ll be safer all round and my extended ride won’t seem so scary.

Gouache in a storybook illustration style depicting a picturesque moonlit village with cottages and church arranged round a village green with duck pond. On a hill above the village, in the left foreground, a white heterosexual couple in 1960s clothes with no faces kiss and embrace against a tree.

Painting created c.1967, by Muriel Lewis, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live.
Her illustrative work features faceless figures & depicts life inside & outside the psychiatric system; including Surrey villages, romantic trysts & scenes from home & her past

Wanted: resourceful knitters to live crofting dream on Fair Isle

Wanted: resourceful knitters to live crofting dream on Fair Isle

Graphic with a magenta background featuring illustrated flowers and leaves in orange, yellow, pink, and green around centered white text that reads ‘HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY’. Below in smaller white text: ‘FROM THE MAYOR OF LONDON’.

Wishing a very Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums, grandmothers and mother‑figures across London.

Your care and dedication keep our families and communities strong.

Tenías self-propelled almond harvester.

Early worrying indications that Chris Mason will be trying to make "tranche" happen today

@georgiamann we used sing duermete Nina in our little ‘world music’ group called The Bordurian Working Women’s Chorus.
Also more gorgeous lullabies- there are a lot of Nanitas to different tunes - Spanish lullabies- any of those would be lovely to hear.

@eurostarjustin.bsky.social hi Justin! Can’t find a general eurostar @ so writing to you.. this train to Paris (8 am from kxsp) has filthy loos and nonavigo passes…maybe pass it on?

@tommckinney.bsky.social good to have you back!
Everyone bewailing end of WOlympics but aren’t the Winter Paras happening next week? Often much better.

Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.

Loved your piece this week in @theguardian.com . Makes me feel I’m there w you.

@tommckinney Richard Stokes was our French and German teacher at school - excellent and a nice man. He ran Liederabends then too.