www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... what an extraordinary story.. truly a remarkable story of love & friendship.

Mrs H completes her 50th park run.. Christmas morning. 🎅

A very happy Christmas one & all.

“I’m standing in the yard with my tools out as I speak”’ #thearchers

Oh dear.. Lucy Beaumont just answered which leader on visiting Berlin in 1963 said ‘ich bin ein Berliner’ answered Adolf Hitler 😱 #celebritymastermind

youtube.com/watch?v=3bts... all right thinking people agree.. the very best Carol.

Latest picture of the ‘invisible man’ released. #epstein

You have to love Melvyn Bragg.. it’s the law. #r4today

At least their bloody tractors won’t be clogging London up now. #thearchers

Latest book club choice .. a difficult read,but what a read.

When you know .. you know. #chrisRea

Some things to hang on your Christmas tree are more relevant than others #wato

People like Jeremy Clarkson who become farmers to exploit the tax system must be laughing all the way to the bank. #wato

Finally,finally finished the entire 7 series of Mad men.. excellent. #Madmen

Choosing between Venezuela & the Trump administration’s like choosing between two mafia crime families. #wato

For all its technological expertise much of America’s still on the Mayflower.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Framing the Drawing. Drawing the Frame (Rome, 13-15 May 26) Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana: Max Planck Institute for Art History, May 13–15, 2026 Deadline: Jan 16, 2026 Marga Sanchez The 2026 Gernsheim Study Days seek to explore the relationship between early modern drawings, frames, and framing.…

Richard Coles.. why? #isihac

Born on this day in San Giovanni Valdarno in the Republic of Florence in 1401 Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone known as Masaccio.. here the Trinity painted in the Santa Maria Novella Florence. #Masaccio

So it appears the only guilty people apart from the dead Epstein are Brits.. Maxwell & Windsor? #Epstein #bbcpm

Henrike & Laura… Media city’s 10k run.

I’m getting very grumpy on a trip north.. I’d put a special tax on grey,black & white cars.. get bloody colour into your lives. 🥸

AI will certainly affect society & the economy but nobody really knows how #r4today

Hungary has a very short memory. 🇭🇺 🇺🇦 #r4today

Surely… there’d be bunting at the Shop reopening? #thearchers

Israel is a democratic state Mr Regev.. it’s held to higher standards than Iran or Somalia. #bbcpm

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/17/t... it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling.

Paying Melania Trump $40million for a documentary’s a bribe pure & simple. #r4today

Karoline Leavitt : ‘President Trump is a Student of History’ #r4today

Who watches all this celebrity this & that,with ‘celebrities’ nobody’s heard of? .. absolute crap. #r4today

Where does #r4today find these comedians that nobody’s heard of?

Are the shades of Blenheim to be thus polluted?

How can you betray Brexit?.. betraying a miserable failure’s impossible. #erasmus #bbcpm

Are you telling me an Australian batsman didn’t walk after being caught? .. what’s the world come to? #wato #theashes

In the news… Erasmus of Rotterdam Hans Holbein the younger 1523 73.6x 51.4 oil on wood on loan to the National gallery London. #Erasmus

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I’d happily contribute £100 to a fund to defend Trump’s lawsuit.. & I don’t think I’d be alone. #Trump

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I’d happily contribute £100 to a fund to defend Trump’s lawsuit.. & I don’t think I’d be alone. #Trump

Wouldn’t Esme have known John or at least heard of the accident? #justsaying #thearchers

Settler violence is terrorist violence.. call it what it is. #westBank #wato

Donald Trump to a T. #Trump #wato

There’s nothing we didn’t known about Trump that wasn’t blindingly obvious before he was elected first time round. #Trump

Oi Trump.. #r4today

You can’t beat this as a piece of writing by Jane Austen.. it’s all there. #r4today #janeAusten

There’s nothing we didn’t known about Trump that wasn’t blindingly obvious before he was elected first time round. #Trump

British Jews like Australian Jews aren’t responsible for the actions of the Netanyahu government as British Muslims like Australian Muslims aren’t responsible for Hamas. #r4today

Deck the Heils.

www.bbc.com/news/article... … & yet it’s Europe that’s facing according to the US government civilizational erasure. #wato

My mother,an intelligent woman worked at the department of Works,now the ministry of the Environment throughout the war in Westminster,but on getting married in 1944 had to leave the civil service.. she was bitter about it until she died. #desertislanddiscs

Today’s the feast day of St Lucy .. here painted by Francesco del Cossa 1473 Washington National gallery of Art