Cepker (salmon skin boots) seen yesterday Japan House London. Worn to protect against the cold, it takes the skin of four salmon to make a pair of adult boots. The dorsal fin of the fish is on the sole of the boot to prevent slipping on the ice. #FascinatingFactsYouMightNotKnow

I will have to charge for this vandalism .... some potential tenants of this furnished apartment have taken a dislike to some of the decorations. Instead of letting me know, they decided to remove it themselves! 😱😯
#GwylltHollow

Cepker (salmon skin boots) seen yesterday Japan House London. Worn to protect against the cold, it takes the skin of four salmon to make a pair of adult boots. The dorsal fin of the fish is on the sole of the boot to prevent slipping on the ice. #FascinatingFactsYouMightNotKnow

I have (but don't have space for) a 50' Samsung plasma screen, ex-exhibition, tiny occasional glitch on one side otherwise pristine - free to a good home, you just need to collect it from east London. DM me

Left it to almost last-knockings for the Holbein - unaccountably, really, because it’s even better than I thought it would be. I find his drawings are so compelling - intimate and revealing in ways the finished portraits sometimes obscure.

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵

A reminder that if the young Michael Gove had been a character in Grange Hill he’d have been trampled to death by the school donkey.

Well. What an unexpected geological treat!

The Scotsman Steps - 104 steps made of different marbles, by the artist Martin Creed (2010), linking the Old &
New Edinburgh. Historically they’ve been considered as a road & so is this one of the most wonderful roads in the world?

Back at Holbein at the Tudor Court Royal Collection Trust today. Like watching a magic trick, I got as close as I could to see if I could how he does it, but despite the extensive explainers about materials and techniques, the pictures kept all their important secrets.

'Time itself is the protagonist of Visconti's 'The Leopard' (1963): the cosmic scale of time, of centuries & epochs, on which the prince muses; Sicilian time, in which days & nights stretch to infinity; and aristocratic time, in which nothing is ever rushed'

--- Martin Scorsese

A look at a survival card

📹 oakandderby

iris apfel as muppets: thread

Remembering brilliant, blunt and brazenly batty Bette Davis, born today in 1908. 'I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and off-times disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life.'

It's shouldn't be easier to get a date with a Tory MP on Grindr than it is to get an NHS dentistry appointment

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

Another one for you Tom Brown

Infosys owned by Rishi Sunak's wife and father-in-law is being given a £250m NHS contract and a £560m financial services contract.

Once such corruption would have been illegal.

Now it takes play every day, we need to stop it.

Sketches for Coventry cathedral tapestry, Graham Sutherland. Basildon Park. Mid C20 items in ⁦⁦National Trust⁩ properties. Let’s hear more about them?!

Please help us find our younger brother. He was last seen near Kings Cross, London. We are very concerned. Please share. A couple of sightings but nothing concrete.
Harry if you see this, we love you and want to make sure you’re ok. Please contact
07760889505

A water company released sewage into the stream that runs into the beach where we were holidaying. I didn’t like the idea of swimming in the sea after that, so I tried to sue to water company for spoiling our holiday. This is what happened…
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