Alison Foster

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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

There’s a quiet revolution of British voters who have had enough of the over platforming of one party in a multi party democracy & want to see/hear ALL their parties covered in the broadcast media. Letters to broadcasters are increasing &so are signatures here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Ooh, that's taken off since I signed it!

The Lincolnshire Fens are like The Archers scripted by JG Ballard...

Spot on

One half of a 1970s metal rocking horse, sawn along the centreline, painted in Victorian fairground style and fixed to a wall on a black background. Decorative text swirls around, reading "Theatre of Small Convenience"

The front exterior of a small, brick building with a dark red half glazed door. There is a holly tree to the right of the building

Wandered past the Theatre of Small Convenience in Malvern this afternoon and was delighted to find the door open! A quick look inside - it's amazing! Looking forward to seeing it open again after the restoration work.
The smallest theatre in the world, in a converted Victorian gents toilet. Seats 12

I spoke to the AI avatar of a Leeds MP. How did it cope with my Yorkshire accent? Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs’ aides have nowt to worry about

“Me neighbour’s lad’s blocked’t ginnel at’t back wi an old settee and he won’t do owt about it. If someone dun’t come for it, it’s going in’t road"
I also have a Northern accent and my heart sinks when i have to deal with voice recognition software.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

That's interesting. Similar to 'chicken' then, which used to just mean the young birds.

Volume up.
How long has this same sound rung along this pasture, century after century after century? Two thousand years? Three? How old are the oldest European livestock bells? Iron Age? Bronze Age?

Substack. It's late.

I only downloaded Sunstack for your writing and I get three or four notifications a day for stuff I'm not interested in. That's a minor annoyance - more important is their apparent tolerance of the far right which isn't something I'd want to support. I'd gladly follow you to another site.

Virtually every home had a chip pan on the stove when I was growing up (60-70s). Chip pan fires were frequent - there were public information films on what to do if the pan caught fire. We must have had chips several times a week. Not sure if type 2 diabetes was common then, I'd need to see the data

Yes, I'd think the baked and mashed potatoes are perhaps part of a more traditional meal at home. The Guardian uses 'chips' to make it relevant to British readers but it's a US study so they're fries really, and probably consumed as part of a fast food meal. Correlation, not causation and all that.

I'd say so. A proper victoria sponge is a real challenge, and plum jam filling sounds just the thing.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Black and white cat lying on her back. She has a wide-eyed, slightly deranged expression and I wouldn't try and stroke her if I were you

Cat's in a funny mood.

Was listening to this as I was running this morning! A cover by Die Toten Hosen, which is worth checking out if you haven't heard it.

Flag Fen. The guy digging next to me, just a couple of feet away, found the wooden wheel which turned out to be the earliest wheel in Britain at the time. Really exciting, but I remember the beetle wing cases shining in the peat best, still iridescent after 3000 years.

Hope the beauty of it helps you find some peace.

Been singing this ever since I watched Diane Morgan at the banana packing station the other night.

Pretty sure 1862 is my school uniform dress pattern.

I’d have said, I will slay all my footnotes but one, that my one favorite may feast & grow without competition for a full year, & kill all the newborn footnotes of next spring, too, and when my only footnote is grown twenty hands high I will ride it right into your chambers & see what you say to me

Buying books again.
Feasting, fowling and feathers, by Michael Shrubb.
A history of the exploitation of wild birds, which will help interpret some interesting sea bird bones from medieval Edinburgh.

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I'm sure the Guardian keep him on just to wind people up. They've had columnists like that before and eventually they gravitate to the DM or the Telegraph.

I'd love to see that 😊

I want to give this Iron Age warrior an Alka-Seltzer and the day off work

I've never seen this either! I love corvids. We have a lot of crows round here, and ravens too, in the hills. I would love to get them tame enough to come down for treats but the neighbours already complain about them so it's probably best they keep their distance

Sounds promising! I love the flowers. I'm growing three varieties this year, including Moonlight, which has white flowers and seems to be doing the best of all
Hope you get lots of beans