Elizabeth James

The Rainbow was a Burned Book🔥
'Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire, and the part it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on 13 November 1915'
And now look at us 😔

What's the fake job the Trump administration gives you after they humiliate you because they're worried you'll spill the beans?

I'm Roaming Ambassador Plenty Potentiary for Marble Flooring and Judeo-Christian Spice Options at Asian Restaurants.

But then, the saving idea:
"And then, in the blowing clouds, she saw a band of faint iridescence colouring in faint colours a portion of the hill. And forgetting, startled, she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself..."🌈
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Best final chapter ever.

...advancing from Beldover to meet the corrupt new houses from Lethley, the houses of Lethley advancing to mix with the houses of Hainor, a dry, brittle, terrible corruption spreading over the face of the land, and she was sick with nausea so deep that she perished as she sat."
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A "The Rainbow" vibe to it
" ...she saw the dun atmosphere over the blackened hills opposite, the dark blotches of houses, slate roofed and amorphous, the old church-tower standing up in hideous obsoleteness above raw new houses on the crest of the hill, the amorphous, brittle, hard edged new houses

Can just about see the teeny weeny church and houses.

This image is crying out for ALT text
#AltTextPlease

Horrible to see all the plastic 'clay pigeons' on the bogs. These amazing habitats are just thought of as waste areas only fit for cutting, conifer monocultures, fly tipping, dumping garden waste full of non native species ( which go on to become invasive species).

Willful ignorance born of arrogance?

Still getting peeved from looking at my MP's activities. She's asked a question in Parliament about advice for people going on their holidays in war zones. I'm guessing that *certain constituents* have asked her what to do about their upcoming cruise(s) to Dubai etc. Valid but that is very niche.

Yep!

That looks like a nuthatch in the photo, not a blue tit.

I'm getting a copy tomorrow!

Oh. I never knew

BBC PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Company number 04243136
Private limited Company 👀
Nature of business
68100 - Buying and selling of own real estate

How long has the BBC been into property development?
Or is this line of activity just par for the course when a body stops using one of its facilities?

But the Tories, I mean Labour, are more cheapskate

On today's BBC news website re raising money for a zebra-crossing: "Gloucestershire County Council said ... it could not fund the entire ... crossing as it does not count as a priority as no-one had yet been killed or seriously injured at the site" Ok it says 'priority' but it's not a valid excuse.

Yesterday I got off the bus and a polite-sounding lad asked for directions, but I wasn't sure, so I thrust my phone into his hands, as he said his was out of data.
He checked the map and I took back my phone and we parted:)
Only then did I think I'd been a bit rash. No wonder he looked surprised!

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So it's #betting on who'll win votes?

Who’s gonna do the cleanup in the middle of a war zone? 😡

Green Hellebore Helleborus viridis in a beautiful strip of Hazel coppice at Walderton, West Sussex today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Turned out the debate was about general road safety. I thought it would be specifically about halving the current speed-limit on 1-lane rural roads. It was well-meaning in tone.

But as some people realise, we're stuck with road-related misery as long as 'car brain' (motornormativity) prevails
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A Peacock butterfly with red wings and iridescent eyespots basking amongst ground vegetation.

The sun has struggled to burn through the fog today, but a few bright spells around lunchtime brought out a couple of Peacocks around Penryn Campus.

I ran the gauntlet, and survived 😤

This is quite interesting to me, but I have to go now and run the gauntlet a couple of feet (< 1metre) away from 4 lines of speeding vehicles, just to get across town 😿

A reply says "Is my hon. Friend aware that there does not need to be a certain number of incidents outside a school gate, or indeed on any road, in order for local councils to intervene? It is a myth that we need to bust."

One MP tells of a petition to a local council asking it to put a crossing on a busy road. But the, as it happened, Reform-led council said no, too few people had been killed / maimed for life to merit an intervention. Funny and awful at the same time.
#RoadSafety
But a reply came...

Road Safety - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Road Safety' on Thursday 5 February 2026.

Some MPs do care about maniacs driving all over the place.
Link for the whole discussion:
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

So, world, welcome to the party!

Got an email, and apparently I signed a petition not long back: “Change the speed limit for single-carriageway rural roads from 60 to 30mph”. ~100 to 50kph. That's sensible. I'll slowly work through a transcript of the Jan 8th discussion in parliament.

Betting on #CarBrain to win the day
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cool it, sis 😉