So much going on here! Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes!

Cruising the zero-waste shop (all the customers are gay boys)

Happy VE Day. May you kiss every soldier, sailor and airman you meet! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Boomers REACT to the Transport select committee !!

“there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population. … twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers, … Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My three moods: old, mild and bitter.

Watching "The Graduate" (1968) for the men's wear

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It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989

Urbs Bristolia

The Irish Reunification of 2024?

Continuing the rudiments of my legal education.

2024 reading:

More deranged FT comments

Related:

Do the police have a special duty to act where there is a known danger? The Supreme Court says no. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...

I should start a thread of deranged FT comments

And yonder dome, is not a dome at all — but painted in the semblance of a dome. #Betjeman

It’s that time

New favourite bot

It's an exciting time for English morphology too!

"Let those who noticed faults in the first edition know that they alone are answerable if those faults are repeated in the second."

My 2023 reading wrap up courtesy of StoryGraph

“What little predictions can we make about a boy at ease with opera stars and celestial bodies?” — Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat”

Logeion iOS app update! New dictionaries on your iPhone! (@logeiongklat.bsky.social)

Cats and dogs, dogs and cats.

Gay men when you tell them a chef other than Nigella Lawson exists and is good

Can’t believe I got a shout out from @testochunky.bsky.social only after I deleted my Twitter account 😤

How did the ability to write help David Webber, a 17th century Somerset thatcher, find out who was stealing his hay? Find out in my new blog post (and article) on rural literacy: manyheadedmonster.com/2023/11/21/t...

I've already bought all the footy poppies for MAXIMUM RESPECT

Does Bluesky have poppy watch yet?

“Preces priuatae has a careful and slightly defensive preface, stressing that such a volume is not intended for those who do not know Latin well, or might thereby end up reciting prayers they don’t understand, for the sound alone (the implication here is, “like Catholics”).”

Ilfracombe, North Devon, today.

We learn in Strange New Worlds that Vulcans take nasal suppressants to deal with the smell of humans — but do humans ever do anything for other Federation species?

"Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway."

Dog and cat sitting in Devon for the next few weeks!

Signage is Monmouthshire CC’s passion

—Will I have to work long hours? —No, but actually yes.

Via Gregory Crane on Twitter: Aeschylus with scansion, English word order, "English stress" and literal translation and notes. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nj...

www.cityam.com/the-x-files-... @jacquesderridad.bsky.social

"the Wagner Group is more an American problem than a German one. The cult of violence, the appeal to young-male rage and bloodlust, ... —Hollywood has been injecting all of this into the global id for the better part of a century." www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Acquired today a copy of Cardinal Bacci’s “Italian-Latin dictionary of modern terms that are hard to express in Latin”

Bakery, Redland, Bristol.

@jackshoulder.bsky.social Bronze bum spotted. (Sans Souci, Potsdam, Germany)

Watching the Memorial.

Schwules Museum

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RETURN to (Great?) Western time — Bristol Corn Exchange clock with two minute hands: one for GMT and one 11 minutes slower, as Bristol lies 2° 36’ west of the Greenwich Meridian.