Large inflatable light up Easter rabbit with egg in front garden of house

Seen this week in a front garden in Bromley. A giant inflatable Easter bunny.

Yes you are right

Correct answer!

An architectural model of a 1960s building in London

A morning working with architectural models at RIBA yesterday. This was my favourite - do you recognise it?

Statue of WE Gladstone on lawn in front of the Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden

The sun has made an appearance for this Autumnal view of Mr Gladstone’s Library @gladlib.bsky.social

Adrian and me standing outside Gladstone’s Library, a monumental stone building with green lawn

Archivists Assemble @gladlib.bsky.social! Great to see @heritageadrian.bsky.social here by sheer coincidence

Very sorry to hear this news Melinda. Sending sympathy and strength your way, take care of yourself

Warning sign on gatepost ‘Danger: Mineshaft’

Warning sign: ‘Danger: Mineshafts’

What’s that Lassie?

Distant mountains, a lake and green meadows seen from a train window

Some beautiful scenery from the Inverness to Euston sleeper train at Kingussie

The front door of Orkney Library and Archive

Parkrun start sign for Kirkwall by a park path

View from shingle beach across Kirkwall harbour approach

Parkrun this morning just a couple of minutes round the corner from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social so I had to drop by afterwards

Playbill poster for variety show at Palais de Dance Blackpool with Peter Brough and Archie Andrews

Opening gallery at Showtown, Blackpool including projection montage of history of Blackpool and seats made to look like sticks of rock

Advert poster for Blackpool Illuminations with link to train tickets and fares

Original banjo belonging to George Formby in display case

More from Showtown, Blackpool. Turned out nice again.

Museum display case with magic trick artefacts including cards, rabbit and Fez belonging to magician Tommy Cooper

The original puppets for Sooty, Sweep and Sue on display in case, on loan from the V&A museum

Green duck Orville as ventriloquist’s dummy on display in case

Original model dog from HMV (His Master’s Voice) record company marketing

A great experience at Showtown, Blackpool last week. Congratulations on winning Permanent Exhibition of the Year at the Museums and Heritage Awards last week. Can see why you won!

The first one in the thread had George Canning on it .. Selfridge in the second one !

Blue plaque for Clive of India, Soldier and Adminstrator

Blue plaque for Sir Moses Montefiore

Blue plaque for Harry Gordon Selfridge

Blue plaque for William Petty

More blue plaques: Clive of India (LCC style). Moses Montefiore. Harry Selfridge. William Petty.

Blue plaque for Jack Buchanan on brown brick wall

Blue plaques for Bert Ambrose and Sam Browne on hotel wall

Blue plaque for George Canning 1770-1827

Plaque noting that ‘Here Lived Benjamin Disraeli’

Some blue plaques from a walk around Mayfair yesterday. Jack Buchanan. Bert Ambrose. Sam Browne. Harry Selfridge. Benjamin Disraeli (this one not actually blue)

A section of the Civitas Londinum map showing the City of London at the top, the River Thames in the middle, and bull baiting and bear baiting rings at the bottom.

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Panorama of the RIBA Library showing bookshelves and study spaces, laid out to 1930s original design

A view through library bookshelves

Open stack of library book shelves

Large bell to be rung at closing time

Final day of service today for the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place as we are closing prior to our building’s refurbishment. Temporary services will be provided from later this year until we are back! Last minute researchers in today for a final fix of the 1930s splendour of our home.

Notice on glass door panel informing users of closure of RIBA Library due to covid

Five years ago today we fixed this notice to the door of the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place, and began to head for home

Cover of Mystery at Olympia by John Rhodes

Thank you @heritageadrian.bsky.social for supplying this topical introductory reading for my first London Book Fair. Mystery now solved until next year #whodunnit #lbf2025

Yellow daffodil flower amongst daffodil flowers and stems

Daffodils in the garden today, for St David’s Day

Myself and presenter in London Live tv studio

Quick bit of TV this week .. I’m at 27 mins in on this link if you would like to watch www.londonlive.co.uk/news/watch-a...

Series of colourful books on shelves in bookshop

Nice and warm in the crime fiction section in the bookshop today

Quick bit of Handel (sung by @satisfactory20.bsky.social & friends) before Christmas

Railway viaduct made of concrete crossing snow covered valley

Three arches of railway viaduct, one reinforced

Cannington Viaduct nr Uplyme, Devon, seen in wintry surroundings today. 3rd arch from left in the photo had to be reinforced, apparently during its construction.. the viaduct was in use on the Axminster-Lyme Regis railway line, 1903-1965

Books piled high in illuminated bookshop window

The Bookshop window, Lyme Regis

Fossil ammonite in stone

Various fossils on a large stone

Cliff fall showing rocks and mud

Sunset on the beach showing cliff and rocks

Fossils on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis this afternoon

Mimosa cake with mimosa flowers

Yesterday my RIBA colleague Valeria made this excellent Mimosa cake to share, very nice

Hellebore flowers behind green leaves

For #JacobinDay today, the hellebore is back in my garden - despite doing its best to hide

Bookshelf full of whodunit books

Whodunit bookshelf has had a good clean and tidy today, acquisitions from the last two years have been put in their places and surplus set aside for the charity shop

Red flowering cactus plant

Christmas cactus is actually flowering at Christmas this year