Apr 1st - Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle meets Inspector Henri Barthélémy in Marseille, having been sent there in his investigation of drugs kingpin Alain Charnier. 📽️📅 French Connection II (1975)

Bat Lives Matter

Bert Hardy. Journalist Katharine Whitehorn, Hyde Park, London. 1956.

Marcus Wareing is sheer SBS. Waiting - only his camouflaged eyes showing - in a malarial Amazonian swamp to garrotte a rogue ambassador; short shorts; hold breath for 15 minutes; able to slow heart rate down at will; silent; little backpack with a deliberately wrong map and a bottle of J&B; *silent*

Artist David Hockney ‘23rd March, 2020’ Offset lithograph. Dimensions 26 x 34.5 cm.

the sound that just came out of me

(youth pastor voice) you know who else was part of a controversial threesome

Here's an artist that is seriously underrated. Like all cockneys spat on by the UK.

The set of The Addams Family was actually Pastel Goth

Le nouveau maire insoumis de Saint-Denis: essuie des insultes racistes à chaque fois qu’il est invité à la télé. @lecanardenchaine.fr: «Bally Bagayoko fait le beau devant les caméras de télévision.» #OnVousVoit.

I so fucking sick of Social Media celebrating "celebrity birthdays or death days or what fucking ever. " You don't know these people, these people don't know and care about you. Stop trying to kid yourself your part of some fucking celebrity family and your uncle is enjoying a "heavenly birthday"

Bluebell path to the sea

Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff

Aah, Chopin, the age-old lullaby for cultured felines. 😸💤 #cat #chopin #piano #concerto

A bluebell wood in Spring💔

Things you didn’t know were in your local area until now

Utter nonsense www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBB8...

Released on this day in 1977: White Riot, the debut single by #TheClash B/W: 1977 youtu.be/zoJYM3krDWQ?si… youtu.be/1jgcwJxrhbs?si��� Things would never be the same again...

Poems for Lent (Day 25) • John Clare •

Every time the Rest is History refer to Samuel Johnson as Johnson in their latest series my brain goes...

Coming Soon! Channel Premiere: Sunday 29th March, 9:40pm PLAY FOR TODAY: ABIGAIL'S PARTY (1977) Stars #AlisonSteadman #TimStern #JanineDuvitski #JohnSalthouse #HarrietReynolds drama #TPTVsubtitles

Big square cows

I have always been an Iliad person, but reading Pavese’s Leucothea Dialogues has made me softer toward Odysseus again, made the many turnings shift a corner. It’s funny how Homeric commentary still works that way for readers after millennia…

I am a Tennyson fan. It’s hard to be precise about what it is in poetry that touches you. But whatever it is. These lines are full of that stuff. “Tho much is taken, much abides.” That’s pretty much how I feel right now.

Thanks for the gorgeous tights & knickers that you sent me.

Closing this run of Louise Glück poems with a personal favourite

“And as Presuming Ed has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to break on through to the other side.”

Can't believe we've found the one batshit culture war nonsense that is actively funny, I hope this fucking nonsense rumbles on for DAYS

Sometimes you suddenly remember why a poem you’ve seen a hundred times is good again, why a thing is “a classic” as it just snaps backs into its natural place of awe in the world. Now I want to spent the rest of the week reading Wyatt again; noli me tangere for Wyatt’s, I am!

It's Jean's birthday today (the 99yo lady from my book who wrote poems about losing her knickers and her friend with dementia who kept imaginary chickens) She had ice cream for lunch every day so why not, in her honour, do the same? Great excuse to liven up a Monday tbh.

#SilentSunday it’s so nice to wander aimlessly through the nooks and crannies of Catania, a city truly full of life Catania, Sicily, now #Sicily #Italy #StreetPhotography #UrbanScape #CityScape #TagTuesday #StreetArt #murals #grafitti #StunDay

Three of the actresses in the Hammer horror film “The Vampire Lovers" Madeline Smith, Janet Key and Pippa Steel, Elstree Studios. 12th March 1970.

Harry Palmer is put through another series of mind games. Not, this time, by East German Intelligence, but a baunch a' bloody muppets.

Morning all. Photographer Robin Dale, Ulla Street Boot Boys. Middlesbrough 1970s.

🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces. Learn more here: buff.ly/tOo8EW3

🧪🌊🦑🐳 #WhaleWednesday #AlaskaSky

How I arrived on Bluesky

Jody the frog

Hawthorn. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHs