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A scene in an early spring as a cowman leads a small herd down a lane to a barn
On this day 16th March 1906,one of my favourite Ladybird artists Ronald Lampitt was born in Worcester
NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter…
IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
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A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
The cuckoos are on their way! #ornithology #cuckoos
🆕 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. 📦
Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references.
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It's Bruegel, but not as you know it...
More than 450 years ago, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created a series of six paintings of the seasons to hang in the dining room of an Antwerp merchant. Now, Sussex artist Emily Allchurch has used photographs of the English landscape to create an updated view.
👏 By suspending mackerel sales Waitrose has stepped up in the fight to safeguard UK seas 🐟
🚨 Scientists now urge a 70% cut in mackerel catch - “a clear warning that we are risking the total collapse of this population.” Our director, Hugo, in @theguardian.com 💬
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Enough is enough. It’s time for a ban - starting yesterday.
Take action with us, @bluemarinef.bsky.social & Only One to save UK seas. Email the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, telling him to BAN bottom trawling in marine protected areas. 🚫✊
💥 ACT: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 👈👈
😱 shocked I tell you!
Predominantly yellow primroses clustered on bare earth in open woodland
Primrose, Sweet Violet, Wood Anemone (1957)
Artists: Edith Hilder,
Rowland Hilder
This has been maddeningly true for ages.
Loved it! I’m going to watch it all through again just so I can take in all the detail. ❤️
That’s really encouraging!
Lovely to see the greenfinches, the garden was full of them, but sadly no more😢
Wow.
Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.
I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die
Love her.
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
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#R4Today
“Time for coffee”
From last night. An appropriate snippet of Midlake to mark the occasion.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
“We still haven't destroyed London or Birmingham…We haven't wiped all this British scum from the face of the earth."
We haven't kicked out the goddamned BBC with that Steve Rotten-berg. He walks around looking like a defecating squirrel…he's a conscious enemy of our country!"
@bbcstever.bsky.social
I was there last May - just heaven!😍
I can smell those stacks #lovelibraries
