Realised that I'd started watching The Perfect Couple some time ago and hadn't finished it. Liev Schreiber plays the roving husband whose daughter-in-law calls him a DILF. I can't really argue with that, though he's a bit on the hirsute side for me. I did like him in Ray Donovan.

Harriet Walter DBE is 75 today, 24th September.

Found these in the fridge. Must have been there since last Xmas. They're okay!

Still going cheap. Hurry - it can’t last!

A couple of paintings from my 'Prohibition' series. #caricature #art

Visitors to the Library, from near and far, tell us stories of having visited us 5, 10, 20, 50 years ago... This picture of our Reading Rooms is from 16 years ago. When was the first time you visited Gladstone's Library? What do you think has changed, and what remains the same?

Had to laugh at Robert Crampton's description of Leo DiCaprio now looking like Norman Lamont 😅. In his column about attractive men, he hails Newman and Redford but can't understand the appeal of Nicholson and Gere.

Robert Crampton (The Times) tells us that a Fairtrade survey revealed that 1 in 2 British people aged 25-34 think that all tea is grown in the UK. A very small amount is grown here, but most of the 100,000 tonnes ordinary tea we use annually comes from Kenya and India.

Thieves stealing signalling cables have caused so much trouble. I was getting constant updates from GWR over the weekend. We should go back to steam.

I keep forgetting I have the Glose e-book app. Every so often, I get a free book from The Times on it and then forget about it!

This is "St Mark's Church" by Harold Steggles from 1932. This was a view from what was then Wick Lane as you'll see from the marked up copy of a map from c.1948 courtesy of National Libraries of Scotland. St Mark's church was at the eastern end of Victoria Park. Sadly, it was demolished c.1975

bournemouthpavilion.co.uk/events/eric-... Beware scalpers. Go to official sites only! Edinburgh laughed its ass off last night!

Of course the main takeaway from all of this is that autism is women’s fault.

Honestly America, you've got an absolute fucking moron for President being advised by a heroin addict telling you not to give your kids the medicine that has helped kept you alive all this time. Sort it out cheers.

Impaciente. Acuarela. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 1836-1912.

In Spanish, the snack or bite you have between meals is tentempié. It literally means 'keeps you standing'. Isn't language diversity beautiful.

Tylenol ain't taking this shit From tylenol.com

is this not just kidnapping?

I recognize that "hustle culture" is all the rage, but what about "casually perusing a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain" culture?

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe. 1863-1935. Artista danés. Interior con violonchelo.

Fascinating...

On a warm, sunny, early autumn afternoon I sat ouside a pub on drew the florist, Village Flowers #Highgate High St, #London. Most enjoyable.

On the eve of the #BattleOfBritain British scientists develop the the first radar systems in... 📽️ SCHOOL FOR SECRETS (1946) 1pm #TPTVsubtitles Starring #RalphRichardson #RichardAttenborough war drama directed by #PeterUstinov

For sale! ‘Life on the Tide Line’, an original 1950s Shell natural history poster by John Leigh-Pemberton. £30 plus postage. DM to purchase or buy directly from my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Autism was diagnosed in 1911, and Tylenol was invented in 1953. Now, let’s get back to the Epstein files.

Shortly after assuming the title of German führer ("leader" or "guide") in 1933, Hitler moved to consolidate his power through propaganda campaigns carefully orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels and Hitler played on the fears and hopes of the German people.

In Kostiantynivka,Donetsk region, patrol officers rescued a couple who were trapped in apartment after a Russian airstrike The apartment door was pinned by a concrete slab.The officers used a crowbar to bend the door&free the people.On the same day, another four citizens&their pet were also rescued

Retrato de Amalia Rodrigues. 1949. Óleo sobre lienzo. Eduardo Malta. Portugués. 1900-1967.

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man died following a disturbance in Rhydyfelin overnight. Latest here ⬇️ www.walesonline.co.uk/news/heavy-p...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt

I Love the Alleyways, Closes, Courts, Wynds, and many steps of Edinburgh! #Scotland #history

That reminded me of a favorite quote from Lester Pearson, a former Canadian Prime Minister and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Bruce Springsteen is 76 today

Names for the three-in-a-row game, around the world… *Tic-tac-toe (US) *Noughts and crosses (UK) *Crosses and buns (Denmark) *Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands) *Sausages (Latvia) *Cat (Mexico) *Game of the old lady (Brazil) *Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway) *Pubic louse (France) *Hobo chess (Sweden)

Really enjoying this. I didn’t like Cold Comfort Farm when I had to read it at school, but I appreciate Stella Gibbons’ writing much more as an adult. I think it kills books if you read them too young #amreading

#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth A win for Chicago: Yesterday, the city held its first open-river swim in almost 100 years. More than 250 people participated in a two-mile race down the the once-polluted Chicago River. The water is now clean enough to swim in. insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

A piece in the Guardian today focuses on the Irish game of road bowling; it reminded me of this work (1941) by Gabriel Hayes showing the game in action - it used to be confined to West Cork. share.google/6u9a5XNcui7J...

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Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Poet and physician Dannie Abse CBE was born on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff (d 2014). Used to see him Hampstead. A nice man.

Just saying! 🤗📚 #WritingCommunity #writers #authors #readers #books

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

😎🪴🌵 trick or treat

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Yay! This must happen in every state!