Still on sale! Just bought one 😎

To save you a read, this is an adult who had an immune condition, and they caught it because of all the children that have measles on account of anti-vax horseshit. Another one on Andrew Wakefield's tally.

A new Monstrosities Mon Amour is out! The gorgeous @mikeparker.bsky.social on William Mitchell’s GREAT WALL OF KIDDERMINSTER! And The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady! johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

Doings down at Weymouth / Portland

A surprise gift arrived today from Simon Cutts in Ballybeg, Tipperary—a 1:32 scale electric fence for 1:32 scale cattle, with warning signs; and a small card sample of printed sky.

whoever said "time flies when you're having fun" must have been a biologist. i have much better things to do when i'm having fun than follow flies around with a stopwatch

Another interesting recent charity shop CD - local one this, all recorded in the Lea Valley, mostly between 1998 and 2000, so well before the Olympics - sounds and and stories of the river Lea in east London

Alfred Sanftleben with Eloise Isabel Stubby Jones, the community cat, 1947. www.estelnegre.org

If anyone can find a clip online of Lana Pellay in the film Eat the Rich saying "Come the revolution I'll be round your house" I'd be very grateful 🙏

Unexpected 'this thing is like this other thing': watching Shirley MacLaine as Sweet Charity I kept seeing Mike Myers

The ramparts that run along Southsea seafront between the fairground and Old Portsmouth looking good yesterday - love the clumps of wild flowers left uncut 👌

Today we went to a new vet in Vire and it turns out there's a quite pleasant river walk down there, with some lock gates that are apparently over 1000 years old. An old man, almost incoherent with rage, told me how the water was too low and the silt removal operation had scared away all but one swan

Back cover of MAD #121, September 1968 Artist & Writer: Al Jaffee usualgangofidiots.tumblr.com/post/8211908...

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Lots going on here.

Today I learned that Syncopix, the father of drum 'n' bass in Hamburg, holds the patent for the flexible dog leash. music.apple.com/gb/album/ica...

Poorly framed but it was in passing and there were people about and you get self conscious

Making use of a distinctive comedic flair and knack for movement, French graphic artist Mich (Michel Liebeaux) became the designer of choice for more than a few bicycle dealers, and his work is highly collectable today. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Mich! July 3 (1881-1923) 🧵

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Blimey - til Kathleen Harrison of Mrs Huggett fame lived to be 103

🐳 EPISODE 19 🐳 We talk about Napoleon, Dad's Army, Tom Hardy as Bane, and the most important question in the history of literature: Is Stubb a cuck? Available for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

July 2, 2019 The man in black with the sculpted goatee and pointy shoes at the Prestige Car Showroom was ignorant and rude and the man in the ear defenders who was delivering a bathtub across the estate on a homemade train pulled by his mobility scooter was all cheery hellos and smiles.

Lots of excellent old photos of megaliths on Phil's account. Definitely mound/pile adjacent 😎👍

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Observation: AI is totally accepted by managers where I work (support dept in a Uni), no controversy about it at all. Either they are unaware of the politics of it or it's considered something not for us to debate. The only questions are about how prompts should be phrased

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Unrivalled Maxi dress supremacy too

Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙

That style again. (nicked this from eBay - Fisher Price Tumble Tower, early '70s)

Me going into the bathroom after a week of leaving the windows open all night: youtu.be/DEeBvOH64uE?...

Think I've just found a new favourite film. Red Desert, Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1964.

Lovely lovely piles of stuff in Alan Garner's yard, and Oliver Postgate setting up a photograph for one of the Pogles annuals (see previous quote post)

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NP. French Wind Quintet. Got this for Samuel Barber's Summer Music, but their version of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin is pretty fucking gorgeous. 💥👌

I'm looking for tunes that have anything to do with TANKS (ideally the armoured vee-hickle sort but I'll accept sceptic, hot water etc for a laugh). Any genre. It's for a thing. Obvious Stranglers and ELP tracks are already in the bag.

Their mid-summer album. Perverted By Language is their late summer, Sunday evening album.

If the timings given are correct, tonight’s the night. Dig out your Eckos to hear R4LW fall silent at 1am

Speaking of BBC Archive progs and bins: youtu.be/yRseiXbHX9c?... Note this is post metal bins but pre wheelie bins, when you'd just shove the bags out. Also note: scene of bin man catching rubbish lobbed from window, as joked about here recently

Conspiracy theory: global warming is caused by being nearer to the sun, which was caused by all those nuclear bomb tests . In fact the reason there were so many for so long is they discovered what had happened and were trying to put it right. (someone must have come up with this one before)

Note to self

Top Tip: fill a glass vessel with water, stick a plastic lid over it and shine a torch down through it for a diffused glow. (Diffused or diffuse??)

FOUR BOXES OF EGGS

27.6 in the coolest part of the house downstairs, not doing too bad considering