Black History Walks have campaigned and received permission to have a blue plaque installed on the National Gallery in Central London for Molineaux and Richmond. It's not cheap, and fundraising isn't quite there yet. Every little bit helps, thank you:
www.gofundme.com/f/blue-plaqu...
Surely this is a collegiate matter - one could claim that it is not the University of Oxford which is responsible for this offence.
Indeed; she would release it into the back garden for a barking session near our window at any time she pleased. So, a rude awakening an hour (or more) before the 06:20 alarm was not uncommon.
Polite requests to end this practice were not well-received or acted upon with any rigour.
I've not seen it (yet), though it was filmed 100 yards down the road from us.
Did you see the episode set in a theatre?
subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"
as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.
This is sadly common, and a damned nuisance. I've had to scrounge old equipment before as there was no funding for hardware included in the "build a database and put it online" project.
Awesome! I was wondering as I don't see dancers for my gigs (which, obviously, are nowhere near as good as the Jazz Messengers).
I wonder what the writer would think to hard bop, composed for sitting and listening to (probably whilst smoking and drinking) rather than dancing.
It's still going...
Sigh. If only we had learned from the start of COVID that work from home has many benefits, instead of being inexplicably forced back to the office by out-of-touch CEOs.
That looks rather like Canary Cottage in the last picture: www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/...
What's My JND? 0.0070
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
If there was no other choice of meal then 6+, but the higher the better.
Luckily, 75 mp(US)g isn't too difficult to do, and I can do better in warmer weather.
Some calculation/conversion suggests we're paying an average of $6.79 per US gallon of petrol at present.
Are you visiting any English seaside town in particular?
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
An article on age verification with which I could agree: neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/im-s...
Interesting. I've never seen those.
I have found them useful for a caffeine hit on long motorway journeys which is slightly more pleasant than an espresso yet is still small in volume.
I like a good Goatse reference (as anyone reading the test fixtures for one of my applications would show) but this one's a bit much.
Find my new recipe for Turnip Pottage, based on Richard II's recipe.
A little spicy and surprisingly moreish. 😋😋😋
Plus a brief history of the turnip in medieval England. You know you've always wanted to know about this subject! 😆
modernmedievalcuisine.com/2026/01/18/t...
Generally I'd agree but it was hard to resist this, which is funny if you're familiar with the author (and if you're not you'd probably not be looking at the site): sirwilliamhope.org/404
From Private Eye: appointment of Andrew as Trade Envoy was vigorously promoted by Mandelson and by Tony Blair who overruled the principal opponent of the plan - none other than Andrew’s big brother…It would certainly be interesting to see notes revealing why Blair ignored His Majesty’s sage advice at the time.
Via @jackieleonard.bsky.social:
And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.
I'll leave my witty quip as I pass the Wharf Inn as an exercise for the reader.
Closed curtain of a theatre stage viewed from the front row of the balcony. The interior decoration is in shades of pale orange.
Similar view, albeit a little closer, to what I would have got for Star Wars.
On a particular journey my satnav will direct me down Wharf Road. Unfortunately, I cannot resist telling any passengers at this point that it is a good day to drive.
