Alistair

The Summer Olympics should take notes from Winter. Pole vault but with a big trampoline as a landing pad and style score added to the height for shapes thrown during the jump and first bounce. 200m hurdles but with somersault zones partway down the track

Small sketchbook drawing in ink and pencil of a view out through a window. The view is angled so we are looking to the left with cars, shrubbery and a grand building outside

View from coffee and croissant stop this morning, Ayr

Small pencil drawing in a sketchbook with a black pencil sitting on left hand side. Drawing is of a waste paper bin with a black bin liner overlapping the upper hand and knotted at the left hand side

I find the most picturesque of spots to while away waiting for the car to get serviced. Wastepaper bin with black binliner in pencil

My mistake - the US did it as well aoghs.org/technology/p...

Not as daffy as the “detonate a nuke to fracture the rock around oil wells for enhanced production” idea which the USSR actually went ahead with - you do get oil but it is also heavily contaminated with… well… the obvious

Easy, I’m raiding a private collection and making off with the Guennol Lioness

To be fair to the Viscount he wasn’t a trained banker either - just someone who is able to take his inability to spot and tackle imminent systemic collapse and transfer that weakness into other fields he also knows bugger all about

Cringemaxxing

Visitors coming ashore at #Arran from the Clyde steamer, 'Duchess of Argyll', in 1924. The ship was built at Denny's Yard, Dumbarton and lauched in 1906

[source: HLH Archives: D1751/2/2/11]

Funny way to announce an “entirely homegrown players” policy for Man U. Big news for their academy and youth squads

Does he still live in Monaco for tax purposes? Economic migrant

Why is it only skiers who get a biathlon? Arm the snowboarders and speed skaters? The existence for decades of the Swiss Army bicycle regiment suggests cyclocross biathlon as another option

Dig a large hole, jump in and pull the earth on top of you

Bugger, I like the local starlings. They have started looking for nesting spots & but this one accidentally found its way into the loft and dashed itself off a wall trying to escape

SpaceX are laser focussed on the goal of an IPO to bail out X, xAI and eventually Tesla

So… equivalent to 5 years’ worth of the entire Russian economy. Sounds totally realistic and viable

Lovely, still have the first flight of an RC helicopter where the builder had assumed precession was an error on the plan and built his kit without it factored in embedded in my memory. Spectacular (and very very brief)

'Do you love me?': The Viking messages unearthed on Sweden's rune stones Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Plumbago? I’ve not come across that. Some kind of graphite medium or is it the background painted in a lead white pigment?

Purse snatcher!

If no-one is there to see it does it matter if the film isn't there? A modern take on the "if a tree falls in the woods..."

A grey and black seascape roughly split in two by the profile of a pier and passenger gantry on the horizon jutting from the right hand side

Terminal, looking East on an overcast afternoon toward the ferry port. Charcoal and watercolour on heavy cartridge paper

What a load of horse poop. This isn’t one-to-one tutoring, it is none-to-one buck passing. Other than pandering to tech lobbyists it isn’t helping anyone

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Sketched portrait on white paper - light red and a mid blue watercolour paint

Sketched portrait on white paper - light red and a mid blue watercolour paint

Sketched portrait on white paper - light red and a mid blue watercolour paint

Sketched portrait on white paper - light red and a mid blue watercolour paint

Draw Each Other portraits over Zoom - trying watercolour to build on my learning with pencil

Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu

DeHavilland Mosquito, all day - every day

Dotard J Trump strikes again

Long drawing in Charcoal of a dark hilly horizon with grey scrubbed sky. In the leftmost panel there is a tiny neolithic standing stone

An attempt to photograph a long skinny drawing by using the phone in panorama mode (the rightmost panel is squished a bit) - horizon line on a January morning

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