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Onions, garlic, ginger, ground spices: chopped courgette, chopped green pepper; fresh toms, veg stock

A black shallow pan containing small orange and a few red baby tomatoes, chopped green courgettes & peppers, all simmering in a stock sauce with spices

Improvising some sort of veg~chickpea curry. No idea what it’ll taste like, but I’m loving the early stage colours #homecooking

Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain . Sparrows

Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows.

Rupert Street Market in Soho, 1965 - photographer unknown

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Good news from Deliveroo: I've 'unlocked 2 free weeks of tailored dog food!'

Aw, nice

Currently self-medicating with Pinot Grigs - feeling better already

Thank you, I will seek it out x

any good?

RIP Rick Buckler, who died a year ago yesterday

Top of the Pops (18th February 1982). The Jam hold the top spot with the double-A side Precious/Town Called Malice (and were the first group since The Beatles to perform both sides of their disc on the same edition of TOTP).

Continuing rain, continuing cough-cough = chippy tea lads

She says that still, usually followed by "And look what happened" 🤪

Ha! I was about to put that!

up yer bum vicars

A 30 year old lady holding a 1-2 years old child (me) by a low-tide Exe Estuary at Topsham, Devon circa 1967/8

My (un)Godmother in Devon is 89 today. She is my (un)Godmother because Mum & Dad asked her to be my Godmother but the vicar said no because she was an atheist. They drafted someone else in who ticked the believer box, and I've never seen her since. Katie meanwhile has been there for my entire life ❤️

precisely

It's a spatial anomaly

Muppet Reservoir Dogs

The 2nd feats Seven and Rafaella as action heroes in contemporary L.A and is also a hoot

The 3rd is the fan-serving farewell to TNG everyone was waiting for and is a delight

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a central arched opening (doorway) at ground level. On the upper three levels, in line with the doorway, there are narrow rectangular window openings. The lighthouse stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro, which can be glimpsed on the right-hand side of my photo. The lighthouse is dated circa 1st century to early- 2nd century AD. It was one of a pair originally built on each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). The other does not survive. This lighthouse stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

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#Archaeology

Memorial plaque to Susanna Barford in the south aisle of Southwark Cathedral, with text quoted in post

In Southwark Cathedral yesterday to view the Shakespeare memorials, but I was struck above all by this plaque to Susanna Barford, who died in 1652, "aged 10 yeares, 13 weekes":

THIS WORLD TO HER WAS BUT A TRAGED PLAY
SHE CAME AND SAW'T DISLIK'T AND PASSD AWAY.

There was a 'name the best lyric of all time' thing doing the rounds on here the other day, most responses taking the rise, but I really do think 'The smell of chips on a summer evening in Southend/With every sense I think of you/It sends me round the bend' is right up there. Also Peak Freans verse

🙏🏻darl: it's just the cold everybody's had x

davy's moods & grooves

Cough-cough subsiding so I'm just left with the sniffles and a vague feeling of malaise. Cooking up a 'creamy green lentil dahl'- that ought to sort it. Mrs H out at the pub with friend. Listening to me Moods & Grooves (and currently on 'Pray For Me' by #Sault which is of course sublime) x

'Fountain pen suede shoes and eloquence' is a lost Siddeleys lyric darl 👍🏻

We do

Your handwriting hasn't changed! Mine's fallen apart....too much typing