Daisies reflected in Tavistock canal, taken over ten years when I first fell ill and couldn’t hold my old camera anymore. I bought a compact camera and took this from my wheelchair. ♿️❤️ #Devon #photography Converted to black and white here.

"Outdoor Cookery Demonstration. How to cook a tasty meal in the open was demonstrated by Miss Fazan, assisted by a team of Guiders, in Egerton Park last Friday. (1) Out came the old haybox, and the secrets of keeping food hot for several hours were disclosed." #Bexhill Observer 28.6.1941 #WW2 #1940s

We have this telephone in our Sargent Gallery for anyone to handle. Youngsters who’ve never used a dial telephone are amazed how long it takes to dial a number! #Bexhill #Telephone

Mist over the River Brathay

The Circle Of Lebanon 📷 Zenit-E 🔎 Mir-1b 37mm 🎞️ Kosmo Agent Shadow #35mm Highgate Cemetery, London #highgate #filmphotography #London #Photography

Some stories from the old days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpEF...

Betio Island, Tarawa This tiny kitten crept out from beneath a wrecked Japanese tank, to receive a drink from a US Marine. November 1943. Image Courtesy US Naval Institute. #MenWithCats

It exists as a physical thing. As manifestation. As a night remembered and a county found.

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

Day 6 I write this from the safety of the garden shed. The children are crazed, rebounding with the pent-up energy of a week indoors. The six cups of tea might not have helped. Their capacity for destruction is amazing.

Happy 50th to La Düsseldorf's debut LP. Words to follow if you want some respite from the general misery I'm seeing elsewhere on this platform.

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Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...

arrest. On 1 February 1913 she smuggled an iron bar into the Tower of London hurling it through a showcase containing the Insignia of the Order of Merit. A note demanded voting rights for women. She was arrested many times and went on hunger and thirst strike in Armley Jail. More this afternoon.

interesting how many liberals use "he's gay!" and "that looks like something a poor person would do" as their go-to Trump insults hmm wonder why

"Black cat in pine tree" Art by Maeda Masao woodblock print 1940 Since the Edo period (1603 to 1868), the black cat (kuro-neko) is seen as a good luck charm, a protector against illness, and a talisman for lonely people to find love; therefore, go get a few more black cats. #MenWithCats

"Suffragette's Sacrifice. Captain H. J. Davison, R.N., A well-known Bexhill resident who will be the principal mourner at the funeral, which takes place to-day, of his half-sister, Miss Davison, who succumbed to injuries received in trying to upset the Derby." #Bexhill Observer 14.6.1913. #1910s

Spawning Minnows! Among the great wonders of UK wildlife, unbeknownst to most of us, but to be found in our luckier rivers. My prize upon slipping into our local chalk stream, River Lark, Cavenham Heath, at start of Whitsun, suffering withdrawal from not having been in one since March. #MySwim 1/15

Well said Greta

Escalier Daru et la Victoire de Samothrace #MuseesPourLaPlaneteMW #Museums4ThePlanetMW #MuseumWeek Musée du Louvre

Michael de Adder deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work....

The unpredictable sonic landscape and its own mysterious, acoustic mantras of Qugmire - double bass player Nina de Heney, hyper-pianist Karin Johansson & drummer Henrik Wartel + legendary clarinetist Christer Bothén. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/06/quag...

it's a bit closer to home but nothing new as eg @faineg.bsky.social describes here

#OwlishMonday Winner of the Owlscar for Best Supporting Owl goes to the orb eyed witness to Herne The Hunter who haunts Windsor Great Park. Herne's antler's identify him with Cernunnos, Celtic god of the underworld, whilst Owls are considered psychopomps, guiding souls from this world to the next.

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I use technology in order to hate it properly - Nam June Paik

Our new exhibition of mountain photography includes not only peaks & faces, but also some of the key characters from British mountaineering history. Here Chris Bonington catches Don Whillans enjoying a cigarette on the Central Pillar of Freney. Visit us to see more like this ➡️ tinyurl.com/j6jcvs4w

"Caging Hitler. At Little Common the progress of investments during War Weapons Week was indicated by a figure of Hitler grasped by a firm hand over a cage. Every time the total went up the "dangerous animal" descended further into the cage." #Bexhill Observer 31.5.1941. #Sussex #History #WW2 #1940s

We all need a timeline cleanse! Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC Boeotia, Greece. The terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes. Life without dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕 On display at Antikensammlung München 📷me

An ancient lunatic reigns In the trees of the night With hunger at her heels Freedom in her eyes She dances on her knees Pirate prince at her side Staring into the hollow idol’s eye. J Morrison

‘All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea.’ ~ Rumi @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a Persian #BookWormSat

'Jumantsubo Plain at Suzaki, Fukagawa' from the series '100 Views of Edo' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Lion Statue 2325–2175 BCE Found at Hierakonpolis Housed at Ashmolean Museum #MenWithCats

Who wants to do a short film for this? www.attic-theatre.com/film-festival

which included a dance hall, roller-skating, boating on the mill pond and a dining hall. It eventually fell into disuse, and was acquired by the National Trust in 1950. The mill eventually became 100% self-sufficient in energy, water and waste treatment. Image: Adobe Images #Mills #HardcastleCrags

"Tucked around eight miles from Highway 1 in San Mateo County is the community of La Honda, where author Ken Kesey lived between 1962 and 1967. When he arrived, leaving behind bohemian Perry Lane in what is now Menlo Park, Kesey was in search of creative isolation." A Trip to the Dragon’s Lair:

"Even though punk was still a caterwauling newborn, no wave set about smothering it in the crib and setting the house on fire." Tape #1 is No Wave History:

A thought ahead of the Senedd elections 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Wales