Thrown out of his family for a crime he didn’t commit, Gil becomes model and muse to the great Pieter Bruegel. But in Bruegel's world politics, art and religion are explosively combined and soon love and vocation are also at war. The Bruegel Boy is available now Holland House Books: buff.ly/vbnyB0Y

Your BBC FOUR Edge Of Darkness (continued) Klaxon ep 3 21.30 and ep 4 22:20 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

*drops mic*

[the grim realisation that yet again i will be required to procure and dissect my own feast-items for this evening's nose-bag] Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh, the tedium of eating ON the other hand, the joy of eating, too

An assortment of things clothing-wise and pretty random which, claims the manufacturer of product A9, can be brought back to life with a little wash in their famous gloop.

Was it Gordon Brown or someone earlier, who coined the phrase 'lifting children out of poverty?' It's now so commonly used as to be meaningless. It gives me images of tiny bodies being dragged from the path of a volcanic eruption. Not good enough. Not half good enough. Worldwide, predictable lava.

If you want to see what child poverty means in real terms, the human right here. Starmer's stubborn refusal to sort this out is an absolute fucking scandal. Blood all over his hands. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...

I know that 'barista' isn't an English word, but that's still no excuse for Autocorrect slyly changing it to Barnstaple behind my back and making my post look dull and mindless.

If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.

"Now we're cooking with gas" Also, knitting

"So, set 'em up Joe... it's one more for my baby, and one more for the road." The melanhcoly life of the tank-dwelling lobster, singing the blues

A cute kid in spats, a second kid - patched dress and no socks - in DM boots, arguing about oranges. It's about fraternité and goodness and at some level about class..

Edward is in great need of a new V-profile tyre.

When you find the gang who stole all the chocolate, round them up, put them into white sacks, make them hop and writhe and wriggle through the village, like idiots, shake your fists at them, trip them up, see who survives. That's the Lombart way.

Silent Films for the Silent. Abandoned Cinema, Guerigny, France.

It's going to rain, it's going to rain, i'm going outside to talk to a tree, t'ra.

Mind last week when I said I was going through some sexy maps and I'd post some, then promptly didn't. Well! These are all from 1940-57 they'll be in a box in shop 1 today and shop 2 tomorrow! Just to confuse you 😂

i am having a day of 'old person's brain'.. the horrible feeling when talking to people of going utterly blank of what the point or end of my sentence was going to be (I used to have rapid thinking with knobs on for doing stand-up/interviewing) - this loss changes one's personality & outlook. Fuck.

'Still Life with Juicer' 😉. You know when you buy a bag of lemons to make a cake and they all have to be used soon? A cheapo juicer comes to the rescue. Just freeze the little containers of juice with a bit of zest in each one.

ok to any Edinburgh publicans or anyone interested in a model of their house/business i want to big up a local artist that done amazing stuff for me for over 25yrs. He does painting as well but his latest thing is amazing model work

Oh no!! The elephant in the room is in the room again, imitating a carpet, posing as a childish paper toy, something to cut out and keep until the next time it's needed to disturb our human minds...

Another french tradecard, 1880s-90s - too many of these 'cute children doing adult tasks' exist for my taste, but I like the pumpkin headed chef, makes me think of Gormenghast's terrifying cook, Swelter.

french tradecards, poor condition, unknown sponsor/retailing partner, yes, ok, quite dull - but the idea of women's shadows revealing what sort of avian they resemble is not unpleasing..

The days of elegant travel (well, more elegant than it is now in the era of backpacks and unquiet carriages) on the Chemins de Fer.

Pencils/crayons to make you 'write & draw with a smile'

Things that Butagaz can do for you. Nurse your baby, make you a steaming hot toddy. A little army of Gaz-persons rushing about to fulfil your dreams of a modern life and home.

I had a dream that there was a meet-up of various people who talk to me & vice versa via this site; that we gathered in a reception room at some large hotel. But I could not tell which of you you were without your profile images, everyone was smaller, taller, quieter etc than imagined.

Unassailable logic:

My supper plan consists of two samosas, a pile of lamb's lettuce, some chutney. They will increase my happiness today by some degree.

Two weeks to go! We hope to see you there - there will be lots and lots of booky goodies!

Still a few tickets available, kids

That time Edward Hopper tried to get into illustrating children's books

Exciting opportunity for writers from working-class backgrounds

From the era when simply having dramatic angular shapes was suitably suggestive of style and quality - hot chocolate - is it manifesting some kind of Ubu Roi figure in the steam? I could not tell you..

The Key To Your Dreams: How to make your laundry (intimate garments included) smell like violets...

Gigantic moth stealing your chocolate hoard

Cycling in close-up; the GIANTS of the ROAD

If you want to get ahead, get a casquette

i love the colour and text balance in this advert for a bottle of Egyptian ink...

Chef is ecstatic at the results of using his special white pepper for making charcuterie - or, if your french is more franglais/flexible/dodgy, he's thinking hungrily about the peppery smell of traitors.

Hey @naturescot.bsky.social, would a 2 minute silence in memory of Merrick at the 'Revive' conference in Perth this weekend help to stiffen your resolve? 🧐 #ScottishEnvironment🌱 #RaptorPersecution #SportingEstates

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

I would read this subterranean horror novel

I would happily live here in what was John Hurt's former home but alas, I am far too poor. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

In 11 seconds, a brilliant use of social media

Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.

“Man wants to be fish or fowl, the snake would like to have wings the dog is a disoriented lion, the engineer would like to be a poet, the fly studies to be a swift, the poet tries to imitate the fly, but the cat only wants to be a cat”

Joel McCrea, #BOTD 1905 Seen here in the glorious #Sullivan'sTravels

@oliharris.bsky.social thought of.... you

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.