Once a week, I'm going to post short essays that focus on an individual painter or a group of painters. We start off in the 1880s with a radical young movement in Scotland known as ‘The Glasgow Boys,' who contributed to the emergence of a new style that questioned the conventions

Other work by the Ladybird artists. At least it’s summer in Ladybird Land Artist: Ronald Lampitt, John Bull Magazine, 1955

I’m in London for a birthday treat - and look what I’ve found … 😊

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I don't know about anyone else, but The Galloping Gourmet kept me awake at night.

It’s the 1st of October. This calls for squirrels Artist: Roland Green (British Wild Animals, 1958)

By Hyde Park you’ll find one of London’s most heart-wrenching memorials…👇

Thatch cottage by the sea. On North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. NMP.

Artwork by 13yr old Slovenian student Anja Rozen, chosen from 600,000 children around the world to create a piece of art to show what #peace looks like. “My drawing represents the land that binds us and unites us.” (via EnmaK Fb)

I love it that this reached me. Aren’t Posties brilliant? ⁦WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk⁩

It's ten years today that this amazing show first aired. Ten years since we first searched through the loamy earth (on BBC 4) and found a beautiful gem 💎 Happy 10th Birthday Detectorists! 🎂 Lets hope for a new adventure in Danebury soon ❤️ Netflix UK & Ireland BBC iPlayer #Detectorists

Traffic is awful in the Kingdom of Kent tonight 🫤

Remember these two characters? I do, even though at school I learnt to read with Peter and Jane (Ladybird) rather than Janet and John (not Ladybird)

The sun came back over the Forest, bringing the scent of May. All the streams of the Forest were tinkling happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again and the little pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the things they had done. ~A.A.Milne #MayDay

Labour wins the West of England mayor

The "working man and woman and businesses want national government to listen to them and listen to them properly" Labour's Mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones urges PM Keir Starmer to "listen and take action" after her narrow victory Follow live: bbc.in/4j28rXj

Red Arrows Royal Air Force The Royal Family Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 RAF Waddington RAF Coningsby RAF Lossiemouth Thank you for the 'Smoke On' just as you reached us at Wanstead Flats 🫡 Shame we couldn't have had nice clear blue skies for the flypast, but a great sight and sound ☺️ The last pic was the skies not long before the lancaster flew past us 😬😬

Today is apparently the 50th Anniversary of Rutland Weekend Television! That will mean absolute nothing to most of you, but a lot to me.

There are 93 days of racing up to the end of September from the start of the season. I wanted to try and ride as close to a winner a day as I could in that time. Today, on the last day of September, I hit 93 winners for the season 🎯