Can't wait to interrogate my old chum, Diarmaid McCullough now Prof of Theology at Oxford and Thos Cromwell biographer. We'll gossip about sex, religion, history...
Wed 22May2024
“When Sue met Diarmaid”
A fun evening of lively conversation
7.30 pm
Nailsworth Town Hall, GL6 0JF

Just a small town girl
Living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere

The grille is still off LambethCouncil . Still lethal for wheelchair users. Please mend it before somebody else cracks a rib.

Yesterday I was in the garden planting some cuttings from a friend’s garden 🌱and this happened 🐣🐥🥰 #WildlifeWednesday #Springwatch

Messaging somebody this morning about 'jamas' (pyjamas, affectionately truncated) - Spellcheck offered to change it to 'Hamas'.

Loads of orders going out tomorrow. Most popular card this fortnight?
This one of Jane Austen in her garden.
Most popular print, Beatrix Potter sheltering from the rain...
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The story of Zinaida Portnova, the 16 year old girl who took the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food. She was captured by the Gestapo, and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed…

I was so bloated last night I looked like a walking Neolithic burial chamber.

How do you turn these bloomin’ things off and on?

Love this. Peak British

Just saw five swallows on Selsley Common. ❤️

I’m very ´diappointed’ in the standard of BBC banner headlines.

Morning #earlybiz
A greeting card for William Morris fans on Saint George's Day.
More writers houses cards & prints:
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For some time I confused Gen Z and Jay-Z but young person has enlightened me.

Exeter University student disciplined after flat mate overheard him saying 'veganism was wrong' telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

After all the corruption we've seen from the Tory party and everything they've done to bring our NHS to its knees, Sunak dares to suggest it's the sick who can't work who are the problem? The very people he and his party have let down so badly? The sheer nerve of it.

Warm, real and raucous: no wonder the Tories (and 12 detectives) are out to get Angela Rayner prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65766…

This working organ in one of the Ukrainian shows at the Venice Biennale has pipes made out of Russian missile casings. They’ve been collected and repurposed!

The climate & nature emergencies make the issue of Englishness more urgent than ever. As does the alarming rise of the Right. We need imagination to tell better, more inclusive and more hopeful stories of Another England, the title of my new book, out now
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19 April 1929 | A Czech Jewish boy, Hanuš Heller, was born in Prague.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 10 Aug 1942. He was deported to #Auschwitz on 26 January 1943 with his mother Alžběta. They did not survive. Most probably they were murdered in a gas chamber after selection.