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So jealous of this compared to the mean plans Essex have that is focussed on how many flats they can cram in and how small can the public provision be

The glacial.pace of the reservations service would mean I won't spend much money but I won't get to read what I want either

Not actually a photo of the Down House staff, but probably roughly contemporaneous. Source: https://britishheritage.com/history/servants-lives-below-stairs

I've been thinking about how Victorian Era scientists accomplished so much work, until I came across this:
The Darwin family lived at Down House with a butler, cook, gardener, coachman, housemaid, two nursery maids, and a governess for the girls.

Never less than 8 servants lived at Down House.

At the Bridge is Into the Woods. Musical reusing and mixing fairy tales. I went as a friend is in the show! I am not a musical fan but the first half in particular was great and others liked the whole thing! I think it has been extended into May

The vast majority of my reading is through reservations. My library has been stripped of books and the chances of me finding what I want by dint of dropping in is minimal

A win but only a partial one as charges for reservations is a major downgrade to the service

Or just a block if you fail to collect and don't explain yourself? Not tricky

At the Barbican a good while back - some very determined ticket hunting at the time

I would have walked out

Paper craft and strength markers! Knowing an extension adventure card was coming up because it was a slightly different shade of green to the main pack etc etc. spent so many hours playing talisman

Not fully old school with the fate tokens an addition after my core talisman days!

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STOP ESSEX LIBRARY CUTS!
It’s meant to be the National Year of Reading-hasn’t Essex CC noticed? The first decade of austerity saw Essex Library Services cut its book stock by nearly half a million, so this £100,000 cut to the book fund hits an already depleted service. #libraries
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Great show

Either way - quite a day you would imagine!

I had this on cassette for walkman purposes and later for the car. I trawled the second hand record shops of birmingham for the LPs and 12"s as a teenager. The "Education, entertainment, recreation (live)" album from a few years back has a blinding version of Sub-culture

The indignities of middle age - once the dance floor - now just standing up in public

This is TK Maxx*-tastic

*other vendors of random tat are available

Dislocated? Ouch! Even a slow trundle can help and frequently using things makes them stronger and therefore happier. Others have said pilates and my experience is that is good news for all sorts of things in middle age but may not be cheap

Eric Ravilious was a virtuoso at capturing everyday scenes and little details from English provincial life. This view (1935) is from the home he shared with Tirzah Garwood at Bank House, Castle Hedingham, Essex.

You could run on your own but I highly recommend club running for motivation and feeling grounded in your town

Cheap, cheerful and on your doorstep is running in the forest with Orion

I think the proposal is everyone gets charged but there is no equality issue as those in deprived communities don't use the service so much anyway. Which is a shabby argument at best

And a cut to the book budget to finish off anyone who thought they might like to read something

Yup. I was late putting in the overwintering ones and was starting to think they were not going to pop up at all

Two rows of broad beans pushing up out of the wet soil of a raised bed

Shoots

A mackerel tabby cat is sniffing around a paper packet roughly the size of a beautiful bit of smoked mackerel

The great hunter approaches his prey

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