Thank you David. Looking forward to chatting more in Dalkey.

We are honoured to commemorate Maureen Sweeney the Mayo postmistress whose weather report averted disaster for the D-Day fleet 80 years ago today; while we remember the great sacrifice of British, American, Canadian, French and other soldiers who died on the Normandy beaches.

"Mo thrua duine ar bith a d'éist agus a chreid é gur teifigh a chuirfidh deireadh eis an nGaeilge mar theanga phobail sa nGaeltacht." tuairisc.ie/na-ligimis-don…

Paul Simon wrote Homeward Bound there.

Defacing Stone Henge is an assault on all humanity. It is absolutely disgusting behaviour from pathetic narcissistic morons.

This is Douglas Adams' macintosh. We have it on display, complete with towel. And we all know that a towel is "the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have". So come see our towel today (open 10am-5pm). #Cambridge

Adlestrop. Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June. (I always recite it to myself when walking along the country roads at this time of year.) Read it slowly, and let it linger... • Edward Thomas •

Is this how democracy dies, in a shouting match between two seniors about their golf game? newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

“…a launchpad without a rocket is just a burned out piece of concrete” stratechery.com

On this day in 2013, an artist called Audrey Amiss died alone in her south London flat, aged 79. She documented the last day of her life by pasting some food packaging into a scrapbook, and recording the things she noticed in her final hours.

More about Audrey Amiss wellcomecollection.org/series/Y_OGkRQ…

Drury Street, July evening.

Screen Test of Natalie Wood, James Dean & Sal Mineo for “Rebel Without A Cause” (1955).

Steve Jobs email he sent himself 13 months before he died. Whenever I re-read this, I regret waiting so long to have read it again.

Such a sad loss. Ronan Smith was as a true gent, a brilliant man of the theatre. His recent memoir was an act of bravery and generosity. 'Prepare for the probable, work for the possible, and hope for the future. '

‘So Liam & Noel, what was it that first attracted you to a multimillion pound family reunion?’

🤔 think someone’s figured out how to solve the Enoch thing… 🤷‍♂️

Respect for elders is beautiful. The young men of the neighborhood sang a song to the 85-year-old grandmother to show their love for her. She's known them since they were little kids.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930). 📷 google images