Evelyn Cook

What this does not explain is where the 150,000 will be returned to…

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Oh, and no beards from now on. Where that leaves Vance, who knows…

So this speech (Trump) is basically rolling the pitch for deploying the military against its own citizens within the US, under the guise of combating domestic terrorism. What have we come to.

The best bit has to be the discussion about walking down stairs 🤔

The contrast between Hegseth and Trump today is striking. Hegseth is explicitly fascist: he wants to restore the golden past of the military by purging weak and unmanly elements. Trump is rambling about how great Trump is. This is MAGA in a nutshell: an egomaniacal fool surrounded by fascists.

It is beyond shocking, from this side of the pond

@dcmsgovuk.bsky.social

President Trump announced 100% tariff on non US films - whatever that means (see Truth Social)

My old cat loves thin sliced roast beef (the supermarket packet type). Lots of protein, soft and easy to eat

So pleased Europe beat the US. It seemed doubly important at the moment

And knitting

Some good people still in the world, and perhaps more in the US than we sometimes assume - forgive me, I have been watching the Ryder Cup

My new sporting hero❤️

You may have set up a new one, but you will never be able to access it again. That’s just the way it works.

I just made my husband a cup of tea, left the cup of tea on the side and carefully carried over the used teabag in a ramekin dish to him.

The Annexation of Tayport, 1919 In 1919 Dundee Corporation tried to incorporate the town of Tayport. Read more about why this came about and why it didn’t happen.

Did you know that Dundee once tried to take over Tayport. It was part of a scheme known as Greater Dundee, where the Corporation wanted to have power of both sides of the Tay. As you may have guessed it failed. Read the full story here:

They should close down all the X accounts this week.

But the Govt has to respond to this and take all its accounts off X

I love Holman Hunt’s painting of fabrics and textiles. So detailed.

The house at Great Comp. In the foreground, the lawn and a sundial.

The house at Great Comp nestled amongst trees and flowers.

The old gymnasium at Great Comp. This was used as the cricket and hockey pavilion.

A wonderful women’s cricket history pilgrimage today to Great Comp in Kent. This is where Frances Heron-Maxwell and Vera Cox(2 of the founders of the Women’s Cricket Association) lived for decades, and where many early WCA matches were played.

Raf and Frances Thompson.

Lovely to meet Frances Thompson, a direct descendant of Vera Cox, who gave a fascinating talk about Great Comp based around Vera’s letters.

Including the stresses of having to arrange the 1937 Australian tour of England (Vera was the main organiser) & have the ENTIRE Aussie team stay at the house!

Kate & Raf.

And as an unexpected bonus, I bumped into @katexe.bsky.social who I have followed for years on social media but never met in person!

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

“…women’s cricket is one of the movements of today which counts enormously in the sanity of nations and has an ever increasing part to play in the peace and happiness of the world…” Vera Cox WCA Annual Report 1937

“Nigel Farage has flown across the Atlantic to call for economic sanctions against Britain. Nothing could be less patriotic than actively encouraging a foreign power to take action to make the British people poorer. It’s deeply irresponsible – because it’s not Farage who’d be left paying the price, it’s working people across the country. He can never claim to be a patriot again. “While Farage’s “Talk Britain Down” tour continues, this Labour Government is delivering the second phase of our Plan for Change, making sure we get more money back into working people’s pockets as quickly as possible and bring about the national renewal Britain needs.”

A Labour Party spokesperson, responding to reports Nigel Farage is set to call on the US to inflict economic penalties on the UK, said:

I love these windows

Actually, more than that, its an admirable plan. Its so easy to get downcast with gardening - we have ghastly amounts of aphids on the runner beans this year - but the best thing to do is just shrug and make the best of it. Gardening varies year to year - just go with the flow

Good plan !

Glad yours looks like mine - as you say, it did not have enough rain, but a good crop nonetheless