We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
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An ad for a gas refrigerator. The ad promises that it will keep all of your drinks cool for your party. The gas refrigerator is available for two shillings and sixpence a week. The refrigerator comes with a 5-year warranty. The refrigerator is guaranteed and serviced free for 5 years. The British Commercial Gas Association created the ad. 2/6 a week gives me my GAS refrigerator-it saves me pounds Your parties need cool drinks. By all means warm up the party but keep the drinks cool! - in a GAS refrigerator. It's not only parties that call for cool drinks. Such delights as ice cream and iced coffee, cold beer and fruit drinks with ice cubes tinkling in the jug are always welcome. You can have them all with a GAS refrigerator at 2/6 a week. Meal planning is easier with a GAS refrig- erator, and you can shop on cheap days and store food. Milk, meat, butter and salad keep fresh as frost, and there's never any food waste. More GAS refrigerators are sold than any other kind because: There are no moving parts to wear out and go wrong. They don't make a sound. They can't interfere with radio reception. They're fixed free, guaranteed and serviced free for 5 years. Ask at your GAS showrooms. Terms in your district may differ slightly from those above Issued by the British Commercial Gas Association, Gas Industry House, 1 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.1
Jun 1939: Gas Refrigerator ad from The British Commercial Gas Association
(+Ice Cream; Iced Coffee; Cold beer; and Fruit Drinks)
«2/6 a week gives me my GAS refrigerator-it saves me pounds»
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
Escape From the Strait of Hormuz...Sort of!
1⃣Is the Strait Open or Closed
2⃣IRGC attack on Three Ships
3⃣Dark Fleet Ships Escape
4⃣Most Ships Turn Around
5⃣Cruise Ships Escape
Video: youtu.be/G8eP2Oqps24
The lake. Sound up.
Last week I suggested that maybe Donald Trump was not quite all there. I would like to revise that opinion. I think he may be what we used to call stark raving bonkers. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73055/...
Chris from Collections and Learning is talking about gryphaea, those ‘devil’s toenails’ from an Essex seabed that used to sit where Colchester is now. Put beside a Morrison Formation theropod, they do something effective: they make visitors rethink what ‘here’ meant 150 million years ago.
A cuppa, a comfy spot, and the wholesome watch we all need right now…
Sam and Ade Go Birding starts tonight at 8pm on Channel 5.
Who’ll be tuning in? 🐦
The medieval church of St Helen's, Skeffling is filled with some fascinating figurative carvings.
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Trump orders naval blockade of post-Orban Hungary, unaware it is landlocked.
At this rate the Europeans are going to end up escorting Chinese tankers through a US blockade. That's how stupid it is.
She is here @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
This is deeply shocking. There should be no place for private equity ownership in such institutions.
The wax funeral effigies of William III and Mary II, both wearing coronation robs, on display in a museum gallery, with reflections from a large round window on the right of the shot
The Coronation Chair - a large oak seat - on display under a red velvet canopy in a chapel at Westminster Abbey
The large oak seat used by Mary II at her coronation on display in a museum gallery
William III and Mary II were crowned joint monarchs in the Abbey #onthisday in 1689.
William used the ancient Coronation Chair during the service, and another chair was made specially for Mary - which is now on display in our museum, The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
A page from the 'Herefordshire Pomona' vol 2 (1885) with illustrations of four types of apple, and apple blossom. From top to bottom, L to R, they are: College Apple, Norfolk Beefing, Striped Beefing, and Herefordshire Beefing.
A sepia photograph of Robert Hogg, a very Victorian gentleman with massive mutton-chop sideburns, wearing a formal suit and leaning on a pedestal with two books on top of it.
A photograph of Dr Henry Graves Bull, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, from the pages of the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club.
An illustration of 'Herefordshire Beefing' apples. Two deep red apples are in front of an apple that has been cut in half. A branch with green leaves is in the background.
Well, it's taken me a little longer (14 months longer) than anticipated, but part 4 of chapter 2 of the 'Beefing' apples story is now live:
orchardnotes.com/research/nor...
In which I tell the convoluted tale of the (re?)discovery of 'Herefordshire Beefing' by Dr Hogg and Dr Bull, back in 1876.
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This post also made us think about colourful animals in our collections.
Both of these were made at Wood Bros Glass Company in Barnsley.
A policeman in uniform and traditional policeman’s helmet stands by a square metal cabinet on a pole. A little door in the side is open, and he is talking into a telephone which he has taken from the cabinet. There is a small pull-down shelf where he has a notebook on which he is writing with a pencil.
This is PC Derek Smithurst using a police telephone box, in the Cornmarket, Derby c.1959. We particularly like the design feature of a little shelf for him to rest his notebook on while he takes down details.
#EYACrime #PhotoFriday#1950s #police
Photo of a moon crater taken by NASA in 2015.
If you've been glued to the images coming from the Artemis II crew on their historic lunar flyby, you might want to delve a little deeper and explore some of OpenLearn's free resources on the moon:
👉https://ow.ly/CnlS50YEWtL
Pear trees, dotted with white blossom, growing against a tall brick wall in a walled garden, with planting beds in the foreground.
White 'Louise Bonne of Jersey' pear blossom and green leaves, against a brick wall.
White 'Clapp's Favourite' pear blossom and green leaves, against a brick wall.
White 'Buerre Hardy' pear blossom and green leaves, against a brick wall.
Wall-grown pears soaking up the spring sunshine today at NT Quarry Bank, speckled with sprays of bright white flowers.
From L to R on the wall: 'Louise Bonne of Jersey', 'Clapp's Favourite' and 'Buerre Hardy'. Individual pics in the same order.
#pears #NTQBfruit #blossom
A lovely short film about the Madagascar Fish Eagle Project - this is where I was based during many years of fieldwork for my MSc & PhD - it's hardly changed. And still the best raptor in the world, obvs 💚 Fantastic conservation effort, @theperegrinefund.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iv...
What’s everyone doing for power plant day? We never do much in our house so probably just a chilled one with family. Maybe a bond film in the afternoon with a bit of carrot cake. 👍
Good morning and happy Easter. 🐣 A lovely surprise to spot my photo of Ripon Cathedral in the BBC’s Easter Sunday schedule.
these photos are absolutely gorgeous
Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.
Hmmm…maps, eels, things I’ve drawn, and things I sell…where can I find one of those…
Add to Basket Browse eggs. Click on egg. Add to basket. Buy One Egg Get One Free. Add to basket. Buy Five More Eggs to Qualify for FREE delivery. Add to basket. Other Recommended Eggs based on your Browsing History … Add to basket. Customers who bought this Egg also bought these Eggs … Add to basket. Here are some other Eggs you might like to consider ... Add to basket. What other Eggs do Customers buy after viewing this Egg? Add to basket. Avoid Putting all your Eggs in One Basket with Our New Range of Baskets … Browse baskets. Click on basket. Add to basket. Buy One Basket Get One Free. Add to basket … Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘Add to Basket’.
A squirrel, standing upright and holding its paws together in front of its stomach
No. 2: squirrel welcomes everyone to the church hall, thanks them for coming, and introduces the guest speaker.
