Ant Dawson

That's yer lot. Home time.

Today's steed. Brookes No. 1.

Today's Office

How in earth?!

Local newspaper In Memoriam section HAROLD GODWINSON Last Saxon King of England. Killed 14.10.1066. RIP

New exhibition I curated about Blenkinsop & Murray and their pioneering work in Leeds on display at the Middleton Railway. Really happy how it's turned out. Leeds the city which got the world in track.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

A box for a lego style death star but all bright colours and full of Disney copied characters

Just found a knock off Lego Star Wars Death Star but it's all Disney characters. 10/10 excellent IP abuse.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way. Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto- Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen. Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic? Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all. Extremely realistic Green: Of course. Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion. Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag? Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

A red tram in suburban scene.

A steam train shunts on a dock scene. There is a boat waiting to be loaded.

A blue steam loco waits at a suburban station, followed by some brown carriages. A green loco is behind. They are waiting to leave.

In a small Scottish town, we see high speed and short distance trains waiting to leave a station.

Congratulations to Beckenham & West Wickham MRC on an absolutely excellent model railway show today. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Their next show is on 14 March, again at Forest Hill Boys School.

#modelrailways #railwaymodelling

He needs to set good examples to the kiddies.

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

And then there's the 3/5 compromise.......

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Oh yay!!!

Edward Carpenter

Lit candle

'The return, the salvation, for which humanity looks, is the return of the little individual self to harmony and union with the great Self of the universe, but by no means its extinction or abandonment - rather the finding of its own true nature as never before' (Edward Carpenter) 🕉🙏

Socialist, Unitarian and homosexual.

Close enough 😁

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

That's certainly a unique take. Very singular. But I suspect one which will be latched on to.

Oh dear.

Oh gosh yes. It absolutely is.

Probably by the same people claiming that the Presbyterian Minister who was shot with a pepper round is not ordained and is an actor, or cannot be a Christian because he's inclusive and 'woke' and being a protestor. Apparently Jesus was pro-establishment, never protested and wasn't inclusive.🙄

Harvest Festival No. 2 done and dusted. Blown away by generosity of the community in donating food etc to help with the local food bank. Bells run before and after the service. We also had 21 in - this time last year single figures. Huge leap forward. Spread of ages, sexes, backgrounds, & sexuality.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛

That's lovely! And a fantastic prototype, too.

Thanks