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'Across from Battersea Park (Autumn)' by Jonathan Stewardson
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👤 @jonathanstewardson.bsky.social

Well, the misogyny at school is alive and growing. I have never had so many young men completely ignore me in the classroom and the halls.
I can’t teach kids if they won’t listen at all.

RUMI 💙💙

This was sold recently as "Wharfedale Farm" by John Cooper which is undated but might very possibly his exhibited painting of "Farm" from the Group's fifth show at Lefevre in November/December 1933. #JohnCooper #Wharfedale #Yorkshire #EastLondonGroup

Younger people are clearly not able to cope with classic headgear, pipe-smoking, and calm, middle-aged wisdom 😅

'Thames Nocturne: Battersea Reach from Cheyne Walk' by Walter Greaves (1846-1930)

(Private collection)

Coming to Venice Noir? You can book tickets now! You don’t actually *have* to as all events are free…but if you put your name down it’s really useful for us in managing capacity and the like!

Yup. The Cosmos can go and fuck itself. Join the club.

Good evening, Steve @squaremileguide.bsky.social & how interesting, thank you. St Mark's seems to have inspired two or three members of the Group (Elwin painted it at least twice as did Harold Steggles). This version of "St Mark's Church" is by Harold Steggles from 1934. #HaroldSteggles

East Berlin, Unter den Linden, junction with Friedrichstrasse, 11 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publ.). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

'A man smoking a pipe overlooking the Thames with the Monument and St. Magnus Martyr beyond' (1911) by Savage W Cooper

(Private collection)

Eight colourful covers of Sir Basil Thomson's golden age murder mysteries. New editions available at Dean Street Press.

"The stranger-than-fiction life of Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1938) was packed so full of incident that one can understand why his work as a crime novelist has been rather overlooked." Sir Basil Thomson's Richarson Series by Martin Edwards
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#ablastfromthepast My artwork “A Slice of Madeira” Oil on Panel 🎨👨‍🎨

I've finished The Price on YouTube. I don't think I've seen it since the original broadcast, which was during The Troubles. Peter Barkworth (old Hampsteadite) was excellent, of course. Harriet Walter, Derek Thompson (Casualty), Adrian Dunbar, and many familiar faces. Very good.

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

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View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

This is one of my favourite paintings by Elwin Hawthorne: "Wick Lane" from 1930. It was once owned by Sir David Scott & it was sold @Sothebys in November 2008. I have included Elwin's painting notes for interest. #ElwinHawthorne #EastLondonGroup

Korean visual art to celebrate the occasion! Detail of the 19th-century six-panel folding screen 'Chaekgado Scholar’s Accouterments in a Bookcase'

China has reportedly stopped supplying Russia with high-precision machine tools.

The import of high-precision equipment from China to Russia has recently become almost impossible, Ildar Nuriyev, the owner of the company Tatpromstan, said.

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad

On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

My customers (customer’s) ROCK

If you’d like your own mini Meels masterpiece there are still some available, including some of these festive adjacent redbreasted lil guys

See Artofnote.sumupstore.com there’s an instalment option, for cost spreading purposes

#birdart #art #artforsale #birds #bsnm

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

Wow! Now this is a bit of a find.

I really don't remember seeing this before today, but Victoria Wood's Hetty Wainthrop spoof is hilarious.

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Now that you mention it, I did see something online about the new one. It's not available here. You're right about Bruno Cremer's version, which I like very much. Rupert Davies was very good in the 1960s series (Simenon loved his interpretation). I'm dubious about this new, young Maigret!

YouTube video by comedy_express Kitty - Patricia Routledge (1929-2025)

The sad death of Patricia Routledge reminded me that her wonderful comic character Kitty lived in Cheadle, which I represented as a councillor for 13 years. Proud to have been the fictional Kitty's councillor, and I'm pretty sure I know which road she would have lived on. youtu.be/7vNAbCxyxMA?...

Greeting cards We have selected greeting cards from around the UK From Studio Boketto to Lola Designs to Madame Treacle to Sent With Pride (pride and LGBTQ cards and to the amazing Pop Out Company for unique cards S...

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Buy 5 greeting cards including Christmas cards and the 5th card is always free #justacard #shopindie

Oh no, I’m going to have to divorce my incredibly beautiful wife Nicole Kidman because all she wants to do is bonk my brains out

“.. please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even ..”

@variety.com
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Knocker-up 1. One employed to rouse workers by knocking on their doors or windows; a human alarm clock. “Since Cooper, fletcher, thatcher, and lamplighter, phrenologist, and milk-man were already taken, I decided to become a knocker-up for the Obsolete Jobs of the Past Reenactment Society.”

Please let's have a photo! He was, of course, Mark McManus's half-brother.