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Lord Mandelson, making porridge for his tea.

23.02.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a year is a long time in politics

23.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2198    πŸ” 558    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 28
Grave of Major Christmas at St. Wendreda’s churchyard, Cambridgeshire, 2026.

Grave of Major Christmas at St. Wendreda’s churchyard, Cambridgeshire, 2026.

Little known fact: there’s a Major Christmas in March*

#genealogy #xmas #ancestry #FamilyHistory

*the Cambridgeshire town.

22.02.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Not to forget Septimus, Septima, Octavian, and Octavia.

22.02.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

RE: ISIS Brides
Working on a new novel and a recurring character is a bad,negligent mother who says to her daughter, "You've made your bed, now lie in it."
Strikes me as a particularly chilling thing to say when we now understand the nature of "coercive control".
A criminal offence in NSW

22.02.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 0
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Round the corner here, the River Fleet crosses the railway lines on its way down to Fleet Street and the Thames.

22.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The River Westbourne at Sloane Square tube station.

21.02.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Daffodils in Burgess Park. #SundayYellow

22.02.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Daffodils in Burgess Park. #SundayYellow

22.02.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fingerpost, Goldsmiths. #FingerpostFriday #SundayYellow

20.02.2026 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The parcel box is some high tec thing that enables people to do returns (I think that's the idea). So that's why it needs power.

22.02.2026 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a G Type with a Scottish cipher.

21.02.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The River Westbourne at Sloane Square tube station.

21.02.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The chapel at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. #SteepleSaturday

21.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A pillarbox outside the post office in New Cross a few weeks ago, in the process of conversion into a solar-powered parcel box. #PostboxSaturday

21.02.2026 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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An EVIIR pillarbox in Greenwich. #PostboxSaturday

21.02.2026 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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What do you do when a war ends? Try to make sense of it I guess.

Four scarce 1945 pamphlets of religious services/parades to mark an ending, they hoped...

21.02.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Midnights stout by Newbarns of Leith, at the always excellent PH The Hand & Marigold in Bermondsey.

21.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The chapel at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. #SteepleSaturday

21.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The door is the original one, just modified to install the parcel aperture.

21.02.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh dear, you have given me a massive rabbit hole to spend hours on!

21.02.2026 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Egerton Drive. Deptford, really, but the street sign indicated Greenwich.

21.02.2026 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An EVIIR pillarbox in Greenwich. #PostboxSaturday

21.02.2026 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A pillarbox outside the post office in New Cross a few weeks ago, in the process of conversion into a solar-powered parcel box. #PostboxSaturday

21.02.2026 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fingerpost, Goldsmiths. #FingerpostFriday #SundayYellow

20.02.2026 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Island Flyer heading off to Ryde this afternoon.

19.02.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
At 08:06 GMT this morning a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway.
 
Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were present or injured.
 
We can confirm that both of our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening.
 
Our thoughts are with those injured in the collision and we wish them speedy recoveries.

At 08:06 GMT this morning a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway. Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were present or injured. We can confirm that both of our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening. Our thoughts are with those injured in the collision and we wish them speedy recoveries.

At 08:06 GMT a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway.

Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were injured.

We can confirm that our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening.

18.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waymo on a test drive in London. I think I'll stick with black cabs.

18.02.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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#BlueSkyArtShow #wood
Fig tree in Buenos Aires 2024
#travel

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artwork by
Massimo Kaufmann

artwork by Massimo Kaufmann

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGForGames
#Chess #ChessArt
#Art #ArtYear
#ContemporaryArt

17.02.2026 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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