When are you going to shoot a proper bird photo, like this one @mrm27.bsky.social?

Paddington: The original story of the bear from Peru (With Highlighted Words) Cd Audio: Read Along YouTube video by MyBooks

Paddington was a living bear (albeit a talking one!) rather than a toy. Here's a YouTube reading of the first book:
youtu.be/QEmSVlCAL3U?...

Looking down the River Stour towards Wimborne, from Eye Bridge. Two swans swim in the foreground. The background dissolves into mist.

A liver and white spaniel walking across a wooden bridge, looking through the railings to the left.

A very damp liver and white spaniel looks expectantly at the camera.

A sliver of stick held between a timber and forefinger. In the background a liver and white spaniel waits for it to be thrown.

A misty, damp morning walk with the spaniel.

He still hasn't fully grasped the rules of catch. Namely, you have to release the stick so it can be thrown again. On the rare times he does this, he chews it up and leaves a sliver of wood, which he expects me to throw...

When’s a flapjack not a flapjack? It’s a maddeningly difficult question Da mystery of caketaxin’

Louis Ashworth's piece on the tax implications of the humble flapjack was a very enjoyable read.
At the other end of the scale, Youmna Melhem Chamieh's tender obituary of Samir Iskandar struck a chord.
www.ft.com/content/a8d6...

Stern gallery of HMS Implacable

#OTD 1949 #NavalHistory HMS Implacable was scuttled at St Catherine's Deep, off the Isle of Wight.

Formerly the French third-rate Duguay-Trouin (74), she fought at Trafalgar in 1805 and was captured by the Royal Navy later that year at Cape Ortegal, by a fleet under Sir Richard Strachan

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Excellent new article in Britannia on a vast corpus of Roman coin finds from Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I assume it's a new product, hence the giveaway. One 250ml can is apparently two servings. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I got a free can of Absolut Espresso Martini handed to me at Waterloo. #WinningAtLife

Thomas Chaney and I updated our working paper on "Trade and the End of Antiquity" (which recently got some airtime on twitter). A short re-cap: 1/n

4 dragon boats move off from the start line. Each boat has 10 paddlers, a person guiding the rudder at the stern and someone beating time on a drum at the bow. The prows each have a colourful dragon head. On the far bank is a tent with the starter in it.

The four dragon boats moving down the course, about to pass the blue tents on the bank. Boat 7 is at the back.

In the far distance, the four dragon boats approach the finish line. A way behind them is an orange safety launch. Blue and white tents line the far bank.

There was something a bit different than the usual rowing VIIIs on the River Cam this afternoon!

Today is the annual Dragon Boat Festival, which raises money for Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust.

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Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses...?

A liver and white springer spaniel, sat on his haunches beige carpet, looking up at the camera.

For International Dog Day and #ProofOfDog, meet Jack my parents' springer spaniel!

Mature students’ participation in HE, adult education and FE have all gone badly backwards in the last 15 years.