Lyn Oliver 💙💛💜 There's no photo required if you have a real card rather than a digital one. You just provide your passport number when you apply. My card doesn't have a photo on it, and I didn't need to provide one for their records. I don't have a driving licence, so I don't carry any photo…

40-minute wait for baggage.

O fortunati quorum iam saccula surgunt…

(Lucky are those whose bags are already coming up)

Aeneid 1.437

Jam yesterday....

#MosaicMonday
Colourful mosaic lararium (shrine for household gods) w seashell outlines in Herculaneum's House of the Skeleton.
In small internal courtyard/light well w garden frescoes - survived when Bourbons stripped most of material in house in 18th C excavations.

Brilliant.

Masterpiece from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's #MetTwinning campaign where they encouraged followers to recreate their favourite works from the museum's collection and share them on social media.
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‘Unhappily, both these exciting objectives were attained only after the expenditure of nearly half-a-million words’. #verbosevictorians

Windows for sale from Scottish church now demolished.

More Doves for Pentecost.

Fire-breathing Doves for Pentecost
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Thomas Becket getting it in the head.
Roof boss of c. 1260 (with c. 1960 paint job).

#Chester

Nodding Norman.

Andy Marshall 📸

Not just a tease. This is wonderful and surprising. Listed Grade II*.
The Round House, Frogmarsh, Glos, Grade II, once had the same purpose.
Pic: Historic England Archive.

#otd 13 May 1619, William Applegard of Lynn was killed by a massive stone letter 'S' kicked off the balustrade of Northampton House by a gentlewoman who put her foot against it, 'not thinking it had been so brickle'

Sem, Cham and Jafeth.

May 14 Festival of S Matthias (2nd post). The mosaic in the New Testament arch between the nave and chancel Fitzrovia Chapel The former Middlesex Hospital Chapel. Aleta Doran ✨ Sr. Carolyn Sr Sheila Scowcroft BSMGP Christopher Howse Tim Lane 💙 Steve Plumb

The clip of Chris Mason, asking the Prime Minister about security, catches him saying: 'Let's cut to the quick.' That's like cutting your thumb instead of the nail. He must mean 'cut to the chase'.
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North End House, on Fitzjames Avenue, West Kensington in 1935. Best & Cheapest Flats in Town.

Happy Ascension Day!
The procession of the Magi bowing before the Madonna takes place twice a year: on the Epiphany (logically enough) and on Ascension Day, because, well, why not?