Lord Mandelson, making porridge for his tea.
23.02.2026 18:44 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0@henrylong9.bsky.social
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Lord Mandelson, making porridge for his tea.
23.02.2026 18:44 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0a year is a long time in politics
23.02.2026 18:01 β π 2198 π 558 π¬ 56 π 28Grave of Major Christmas at St. Wendredaβs churchyard, Cambridgeshire, 2026.
Little known fact: thereβs a Major Christmas in March*
#genealogy #xmas #ancestry #FamilyHistory
*the Cambridgeshire town.
Not to forget Septimus, Septima, Octavian, and Octavia.
22.02.2026 22:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0RE: 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
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 π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The River Westbourne at Sloane Square tube station.
21.02.2026 20:01 β π 52 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0Daffodils in Burgess Park. #SundayYellow
22.02.2026 07:21 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Daffodils in Burgess Park. #SundayYellow
22.02.2026 07:21 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Fingerpost, Goldsmiths. #FingerpostFriday #SundayYellow
20.02.2026 07:02 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a G Type with a Scottish cipher.
21.02.2026 20:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The River Westbourne at Sloane Square tube station.
21.02.2026 20:01 β π 52 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0The chapel at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. #SteepleSaturday
21.02.2026 14:15 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0A 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 π 21 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0An EVIIR pillarbox in Greenwich. #PostboxSaturday
21.02.2026 06:27 β π 31 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0What 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...
Midnights stout by Newbarns of Leith, at the always excellent PH The Hand & Marigold in Bermondsey.
21.02.2026 14:27 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The chapel at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. #SteepleSaturday
21.02.2026 14:15 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The door is the original one, just modified to install the parcel aperture.
21.02.2026 14:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh dear, you have given me a massive rabbit hole to spend hours on!
21.02.2026 08:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Egerton Drive. Deptford, really, but the street sign indicated Greenwich.
21.02.2026 06:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An EVIIR pillarbox in Greenwich. #PostboxSaturday
21.02.2026 06:27 β π 31 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0A 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 π 21 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Fingerpost, Goldsmiths. #FingerpostFriday #SundayYellow
20.02.2026 07:02 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Island Flyer heading off to Ryde this afternoon.
19.02.2026 12:36 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0At 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.
Waymo on a test drive in London. I think I'll stick with black cabs.
18.02.2026 18:09 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0#BlueSkyArtShow #wood
Fig tree in Buenos Aires 2024
#travel
artwork by Massimo Kaufmann
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGForGames
#Chess #ChessArt
#Art #ArtYear
#ContemporaryArt