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"If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House." — William Morris

Good morning 🐑

I thought 𝕏 might like this. Tom Brown, retired engineer, has saved around 1,200 types of apples from extinction over 25 years.

To save you wading through over 100 pages of guff, I can inform you that amongst their recommendations to solve the “deep rooted, systemic problems” of the water industry, the Independent Water Commission report does not even consider novel solutions, like: - nationalisation. -

'Santolina and Quinces.' Vanessa Bell's work beautifully judges the reflection of the vase (designed by her) in the mirror of this painting from 1934. Her reputation has long been overshadowed by her family life and romantic entanglements.

An amazing autochrome from 1920's Tibet. It depicts the Oracle of Nechung (the personal oracle of the 13th Dalai Lama) photographed by Joseph F Rock during his extensive Chinese Expedition in 1927. It is original colour, not colourised.

Shabana is trapped at home in Afghanistan, but she still has hope. She comes to my online group. Any comments will make her feel less isolated.

Don’t shoot the hares 👇

Just been sent this great picture by a local friend who first thought it was a piece of Lego lying on the pavement. Mating lime hawks, Mimas tiliae. Plenty of limes (lindens) planted as street trees hereabouts. Sometimes I’m sent photos of the caterpillars.

Before I even opened this piece about the joint suicide of an elderly couple (with no terminal diagnoses between them), I knew it would have "slipped away" in it. The grimmest horror stories are the ones that pretend to be fairytales, and have loveheart emojis attached.

When you see a Great White Egret from underneath you can clearly see that they're descended from dinosaurs! 😮😁🐦

If anybody uses the word "pass" when I die, then I promise that my ghost will come back to haunt them. "Passing" is for footballers.

'Ted Hughes tried to persuade Cornwell and his family into a Ouija board session to summon the Luxton dead.' Lucy Lethbridge (Lucy Lethbridge) on the classic account of death in a Devon farming family the-tls.com/politics-socie…

Currently reading George Eliot and not disinclined to read them all. Also now find I have a not inconsiderable urge to speak in double negatives.

Becoming Edna – the country girl turned sinner. Review of Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story by Lucy Lethbridge #arts #tvreview #ednaobrien thetablet.co.uk/arts/becoming-…

Whatever you think about assisted dying, this bill is simply not fit for purpose. It's impossible this bill before sorting out palliative care. Palliative care is propped up by volunteers Assisted dying will have private investors That is not choice.

Greek Rhyton, Terracotta Vase in the Form of a Lobster Claw ca. 460 BC

The deaths of vulnerable and disabled people are being decided on the basis of what Ellie Chowns's mum told her, in a possibly fictitious conversation. With MPs of this standard, there is literally no hope

Corot's France is a melancholically beautiful place, wan and silvery. He was anything but an avant-garde artist, though he championed Gustave Courbet and was himself celebrated by the poet Charles Baudelaire. This work 'Les maisons Cabassud à Ville d'Avray,' dates from 1840.

He’s right - I hope Labour MPs take what he says seriously