Perfect.
27.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perfect.
27.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Strange. Squirrels usually leave them alone (vs crocuses or tulips). If heavy soil maybe just the wet did for them?
27.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
View down a spring border with white plum blossom on right, lots of small yellow narcissi in the middle, yew hedge, gravel path down the left. In middle distance talk ornamental grasses left standing over winter, and bronze dry leaves on hazel hedge.
Some things to be happy about today, cont.
27.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Swift by Charles Jervas (1710, NPG); quotation from Swift's 'Argument Against Abolishing Christianity'.
'my discourse [is] intended only in defence of nominal Christianity, the other having been for some time wholly laid aside by general consent, as utterly inconsistent with all our present schemes of wealth and power'
Jonathan Swift anticipating (1708) what Reform means by a 'Christian country'.
*same*
27.02.2026 05:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👉’broad multiethnic coalition’👈
27.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💚
27.02.2026 05:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🥰💚
27.02.2026 05:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perfect. Those are wonderful, and new to me.
26.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very small mahogany chair with rush seat and simple brace latch under for fixing unfolded; displayed in front of a mural blow-up of one of his landscapes in oils.
The Constable vs Turner exhibition @tate.bsky.social is every bit as good as reviews have said. Closes April and booked up well into March.
I was particularly taken with Constable’s little folding outdoor sketching chair.
Absolutely brilliant.
26.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gorgeous!
26.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0FFS
24.02.2026 12:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doesn't look like it; only hit for those title key terms are its entry in Lackington's Catalogue for 1792.
24.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Shoot.
24.02.2026 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I think it’s covered in this OED sense; the Stow example shows it could be largely decorative/ceremonial, but rigged up as for equestrian military show?
23.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0hydroponic?
23.02.2026 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have done as instructed.
23.02.2026 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😂
22.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Mark. I was too self-conscious of the weak I-phone focus to zoom that much.
22.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ooo. I got a killer chunk of Romans this morning. Proper syntax!
22.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sparrow hawk nonchalantly perched on a garden chair.
A sparrow hawk just arranged a little epiphany for me.,Thrilling.
22.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1😂 Come over sometime; seriously!
22.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sunday lunch continues. Treacle sponge!
22.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 96 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 2Yes!
22.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Small early spring bouquet of greenery, narcissi, and white with red speckles hellebores; on a shiny dining table set for Sunday lunch.
There.
22.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Same. 👍
21.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eeuw.
20.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Definitely madrigals, or for no. 2, sea shanties. *swoon* either way.
19.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And can we pause just a moment on Sgt . . . Manhood!
19.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0