Sir Hedgehog A rather amusing picture opposite our hotel room

Breakfast

Very enjoyable wine tasting 🍷

Cheers, enjoying an Old Fashioned before having a nice dinner Later we are going to an Italian wine tasting event run by The Wine Society

The Ladybird Look. The ubiquitous headscarf over freshly set hair (And in memory of the late, great Penelope Keith) Artist-: Kenneth Inns (1967)

Ladybird books in the spotlight The ‘Do You Know’ books. (1971) Artist: Frank Humphris

This is one of the earliest recorded Anglo-Saxon finds in the Ashmolean’s collection. Dating back to the later 5th century, this gold pendant may have been brought to England by immigrants or contacts from the area of northern Germany.

Today, 29th June, marks the anniversary of the dedication of the #Temple of #Hercules Musarum in 189BC by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior. It was located near the Circus Flaminius in the Campus Martius. 📷 Labours of Hercules. Photo: Marie Lan Nguyen. Reconstruction of the temple

Houston Ballet First Soloists Eric Best & Aoi Fujiwara in Giselle Photo by Alana Campbell

BBC News - Snapshot of Wiltshire town's history displayed in 70m banner - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Different shells and pieces of coral lie together on a rock along the coast, as if a large wave has just left them behind. Henricus Franciscus Wiertz brought them together in this calm still life. Most of the shells are bright white or reddish brown in colour.🐚  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026960

‘The sweet shop’ Artist: Martin Aitchison, We Have Fun, 1964

Merry and Vadim

It’s mildly annoying how stats about the average age of console gamers being 30+ are widely taken as meaning “kids aren’t playing console games anymore”, rather than “gaming isn’t really a thing people age out of anymore”

Sleek suits all the rage in the early 1910s, often with sharp detailing like this. The brown linen was a trimmed with a pinstriped collar and cuffs with mother of pearl decorative buttons framed in elongated black braid buttonholes. Lovely! @KSUMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

It’s also a worrying indicator of how weak and illegitimate these politicians and the state feel. Tony Blair felt absolutely confident to tell millions of people to go fuck themselves over the Iraq war. But now, one guy standing up and saying “this is bullshit, you are criminals” is terrifying.

This striking dish dates back to early 18th century China where it was created in the Jingdezhen kilns. It is decorated with overglaze enamels, a technique that allows for more vibrant colours and intricate details.

Drinking a very nice glass of The Wine Society's Mestizaje Bobal Mustiguillo, Utiel Requena 2024

Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a...

Joel Sternfeld. "The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, from the series 'On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam.'" February 1994, printed September 1996.

Some of the most colourful finds from #Roman & #IronAge times are made from #glass. At #Trimontium, broken bottles were recycled into glass beads & bangles, & these constitute some of our favourite objects in the collection.  Come & see them for yourself at our wonderful museum!

English National Ballet in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Albert Hall Photography by ASH

David Motta Soares and Maria Khoreva in Don Quixote PDD, Ravenna Festival with YAGP

End of June Garden Photos

Merry and Pippin

Summer storm Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

Vadim

The Southbank Centre and Waterloo Station

Fantastic concert, great music for two amazing games Hades and Hades II by Supergiant games 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

At the Royal Festival Hall for Ballads of the Underworld: Music of Hades and Hades II

Cheers at OKAN, Southbank for lunch Enjoying a Hi-Ball Japanese Whisky

In South London today, going to see Ballards of the Underworld: Music of Hades and Hades II at the Royal Festival Hall this afternoon, currently at a cafe keeping hydrated