g.j.hilton

Furthermore it is not so unreasonable for an electorate to be frustrated that successive administrations of all parties have failed to notice this process - evident for at least two decades -until crisis point.

Which is a pattern, and perhaps why this issue is iconic of others.

Ok but a presumption of popular good faith and non-stupidity might help (at least if we want a democracy).

Reframe the question as 'how can town centres be re-imagined to be relevant to modern needs?'. Then find who has profited from their decline and find ways for them to pay for it.

Today we remember the Angelic Doctor, patron saint of terrible handwriting. In his honor, I am forging ahead with research for my illegibility project.

See thread from last year for more discussion and some bonus Leonard Baskin.

I'd put a panning from Biggar in 96pt type as my proudest jacket quote.

Such things I leave to the young as their proper province, and wish you all you can devour!

(But not for me. I'm a crap draft of a Beckett character abandoned as self parody and crumpled binwards as he headed out to the pub instead.)

Compulsive suckling on the drivel teat is a symptom of some other, sadder loss. Were I not myself so bereft perhaps I could name that loss but no, too far fallen. The meaningfulness of meaning perhaps.

Amen.

Among the many saddening dimensions hereof is the realisation not just how few people there are capable of or interested in discriminating between drivel and sense but - worse - how few times the difference matters in most people day to day production or reception of the written word.

Going to see Blind Stamped on the main stage after Limp Calf. Then over to the Fore Edge Tent to catch nd/np and Unsophisticated Copy.

Oh der! Amazing thank you

Is any of this likely to be surfaced online?

As somebody who spent 15 years designing LOD platforms for assorted governments -for my sins - before pivoting to history I'd absolutely kill to attend some of these sessions.

It could only make the world a much better place if people would just all burst forth together more often.

YouTube video by Mackenzie Rough PG Tips Mr Shifter 30sec TV commercial 1971

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yok1...

Solutions:

Soll[utus]

Marcute (which apparently is a name after all)

Problems 0001, 0002: solved. The rest of the rowdy and obnoxious stadium-sized crowd? Not so much! :)

Thank you, have an ace weekend.

It does! But in Latin. :)

Thank you SO much. It's extremely helpful and constructive to have adult supervision here!

When WHEN will I learn to trust my readings? Problem solved thank goodness.

That question mark isn't what I intended at all! I meant

THANK YOU

I think my best thinking is Solu[tum]!

That's a brilliant find. That's what I had but Withycombe laughed in my face and my google skills aren't as sharp as yours obviously! Thank you?

Vintage on-stage pic of Bez from Happy Mondays

Current Labour party more likely to pick Morrissey.

But being sensible, there's only one man for the job...

100% but that's not Burnham.

Another example of Starmer's lack of nous. Coming second or third to a Green or Reform would have sunk Burnham forever. But they're just too rubbish at politics.

Thank you, yes I'm very happy with this. The Record Interpreter really let me down on this one!

I'm fairly sure (famous last words) the surname is Tomlyne or Tomlyns but that first name is just a jumble of unrelated letters.

Solvit / solutum You might be onto something here.

It's payments to people for supplies. I don't think this helps... at least it doesn't help me. I wanted it to be 'paid' etc but not even with my eyes half closed!

One suspects the exec have done him a favour - would have been greatly smarter to let him stand and watch him bury himself by coming second or third.

This way, he lives to fight another day, honour not only intact but looking righteous, shabbily treated & the guy of whom Starmer's afraid. Amateurs.

Palaeography? Can't even spell it, apparently.

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Well this is humiliating.

Should be trivial yes but certified palaeogrpahic clown that I am, for the life of me I can't figure out the trailing word at the end of each line of this ledger. England ≈1550

Bonus: or this first name 🤡
Put me out of my misery?

#palaeography #earlymodern #skystorians

To whom are you trying to appeal? Who are your two or three (or more) core audiences?

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