#Beltane blessings and a very happy #MayDay to everyone
Sumer is icumen in

Merry and Pippin have a sniper rifle this time. The whole trilogy takes approximately 37 minutes.

Sorry you will not be conquering Burma

Guard on the USSR-Iran border, 1951.

‘tupinambá mantle’ (2023), a feathered cape by Gliceria Tupinambá and her community in bahia; centrepiece of the brazil (hãhãwpuá) pavilion at the venice biennale

John Wick in Ghibli style

Great Orme llandudno burial chamber
Cymru Wales, 1912

Part Two of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tonight.

Delighted to spend time with Ricki Tarr. He’s a rogue and a charmer, he wears lovely, very 70s suits in Lisbon, and I find Hywel Bennett’s performance so bloody likeable.

listen to blaidd singing calon lân, in the aftermath of nuclear armageddon, in episode 3 of the blue book of nebo on radio 4 tonight

wipe that smirk off your face

goldeneye (1995)

Today is the birthday (and death day) of William Shakespeare. This short thread serves as a reflection on the passage of time, love, beauty, mortality and the meaning of life 🧵

1. Dame Judi Dench, Sonnet 29

'You're looking very spruce this morning, Major.'
'St George's Day, old boy'

Happy #StGeorgesDay WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk