6th February 2026 10.26

This is better than Pulp. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWrS...

Sunshine! Greenery! Freedom! Modern life on the postwar English council estate. My books, The Radburn Idea, vols 1 and 2, for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com £10 each including postage.

Dessau, End of Winter http://www.moma.org/collection/works/194820

How to escape this world we're living in? The magical #AMOLAD is on BBC iPlayer.

Lincolnshire goes from national leader to climate change blocker despite the science not changing and local impacts getting worse | Cliff Mitchell

Custard Gertrude Stein, from ‘Tender Buttons’

Happy birthday Derek youtu.be/Eo7Rmu3woNk?...

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

The Radburn Idea 1, and The Radburn Idea 2! Stories of how postwar English architects and planners attempted to produce pedestrian-friendly, car-free housing estates. £10 each, postage free. For sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Caravan is awful.

Lanzarote landscape

SIGLO XVII

SIGLO XVII

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24/1/26 - nocturn

Earth art instillation. Dr Richard Beeching. Leicestershire. Created 1963.

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Night Sky- with artist Robert Ayton’s lovely inky skies and glowing light (1965)

We have done up the bedroom as we planned to do.

'A walk is an act of displacement. A walk is an act of attention. Are either of these things true? Wrong question. Can they both be true at the same time? Wrong question.' 'Point Zero': a night walk from Thorne to Goole longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero

Isamu Noguchi - Playground Metal models for a proposed children's playground in Hawaii

"The world is a region without a beginning and nobody know where it really ends, woah-ho, everything depends on where you are in the region that's spinning around, half of the time we are upside down" (Apologies to Hal David).

Joan Greenwood on the Isle of Barra in Scotland during a break from location filming for Whisky Galore! (1949)

1/ Council housing in Graveley, Herts: Hitchin Rural District Council built 400 houses under the 1919 Housing Act; twelve on Ashwell Common, Graveley. A housing survey had revealed that, of the village's 70 houses, 11 were unfit for human habitation. The hedges and gates give a notably rural feel.

But I keep thinking of this.

Now playing.

Swanage http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-swanage-t01771

EVENT: Join C20 for a springtime weekend exploring Sam Scorer’s Lincoln - a local architect of national importance and a pioneer of the hyperbolic paraboloid roof. 🗓️ Fri 27 - Sun 29 March 2026 📍 Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire 🎟️ Book tickets now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

During the late 1930s, photograher Helen Levitt recorded New York life, including neighborhood children at play creating their art with chalk in the street #WomensArt

‘Lincolnshire neither or’

"Everything is narrowing. To a distant point." 'Point Zero': a night walk from Thorne to Goole longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero

John Piper, 18. Gedney, Lincolnshire: a Tower in the Fens, 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118573

16th January 2026 07.14

I watched the beautiful Peter Hujar's Day, and I now want to live in this apartment, in NY, in 1974.

A Radburn Idea?

George Brecht. from Water Yam, 1962

14/1/26 - nocturn

Stanley Lombardo

"RT this with your home river" colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxecrossings.php Two slideshows colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxedownstream.php colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxeupstream.php “A river is a line of water not a narrative.”—Anon.

This #MapMonday we're taking you back in time ⌛ We've just added over 9,000 out of copyright Ordnance Survey maps published in 1975 to our Map Images website. What did your neighbourhood look like fifty years ago? 🗺️ 🔗: maps.nls.uk/additions/#191 #MoreMaps

Mornin’. Lopin’ Through The Cosmos.

Back in print! The Radburn Idea 1. Also available, The Radburn Idea 2! Stories of how postwar English architects and planners attempted to produce pedestrian-friendly, car-free housing estates. £10 each, postage free. For sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

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Certain lanes force you to straddle two worlds. You walk with modernity of Dutch elm disease, pylon hum on one side, the other full of gates into ancient fields, the ghosts of old hedge witches. Despite this polarity, you never get a sense of the lane picking a side.– #MattAdams, 1981

8th January 2026 08.00

Notwithstanding all this, the cover of the new Road Safety Strategy shows three mothers with children on a zebra crossing. It feels an awful lot like they’re not really the focus of the strategy.