Alison Benson

In #StokeOnTrent. Great seeing #NationalGallery #ArtOnTour. Londoner visiting home

#DPPCpets I want to complain that 45 mins is not enough time for a walk and play over lunch

##dppc2025 love my mug

A German traveller to England in 1609: "The English are courteous and civilised towards foreigners, but only because of the money involved."

Boxes of Easter Eggs

Cabinet with cold food and advert for Easter

Seen in #Morrisons. I'm sure not the only one. Happy New Year

It’s 27 December and…

#publicserviceannouncement

If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this?

If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…

Swan light effect

Christmas tree with blue lights

Tyranosaurus Rex light effect

Light effect gingerbread house

#TrenthamEstate #WinterLightTrail #Staffordshire Fabulous

Put up 12 days ago, finished with #feltsogood flying pig tree topper. So cute

Greenwich's Olympic equestrian centre quietly put up for sale - The Greenwich Wire Greenwich Council's cabinet has voted to sell the borough’s equestrian centre - agreeing to dispose of the Olympic legacy project in under a minute.

Greenwich Council's cabinet has voted to sell the borough’s equestrian centre - agreeing to dispose of the Olympic legacy project in under a minute.

The centre opened 11 years ago, with a pledge to provide "training opportunities for many people for years to come”.

Storyville Books Bookshop UK Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

A photograph of the Houses of Parliament reflected in a small puddle on a barrier

Parliament

Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌

United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not often an #EnvironmentalInformationRequest makes the news #EIR

Hansard text: "Will the Leader of the House raise with colleagues in the Cabinet Office how the Church of England can designate bishops, dioceses, cathedrals and national Church institutions as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act?"

The Church of England is the established state religious institution in England, but is not subject to FOI, an important anomaly raised in the Commons yesterday by @pollybillington.bsky.social

Baby red panda dies from firework stress, says Edinburgh Zoo Three-month-old Roxie choked on her own vomit as fireworks were being set off across Edinburgh on Bonfire Night.

Baby red panda dies from firework stress, says Edinburgh Zoo

Brave Talk Unlimited, private video calls. Right in the Brave browser.

@brave.com.web.brid.gy
⚠️ Friendly reminder: Brave Talk will never ask you to download software.

Anyone, or any sites, asking you to download Brave Talk are trying to trick you into downloading malware.

Brave Talk is only available through talk.brave.com

#UFO Bridge in #Bratislava #Slovakia

Jars with coloured contents on shelves

Pickles in #Budapest

Highly decorated colourful interior with hanging lights

Second largest synagogue in the world ##Budapest

White dog with pompom haircut walked by two people

#Poodle in ##Budapest

A large ornate gold building at night

Looks like it's made of gold. Parliament building #Budapest #Hungary

Screenshot of PayPal's Terms of Service update, outlining their "personalized shopping" feature where they allow themselves the right to give info about you to other companies

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:

go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

Cover of a book called Servants Abroad, with an illustration of a male servant in 18th-century dress, carrying books and wine.

Very satisfying to approve the final proofs this morning – my edition of four travel journals by 18th-century servants should be out in November! I hope they will be useful for all kinds of research and teaching on travel, travel writing and social history #skystorians #18thc #c18th #history