Look forward to them.

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:

– the Art of Swimming. Escape your enemies!

– the Art of Restoration

– niche sports corner: road bowling

– new Far Side cartoon

– Dutch proverbs in a Bruegel painting

– data guessing game

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Your drawings from there were wonderful. What a place to be.

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On 19 October 2022 I was busy finishing off drawing a window of Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate. I had hardly started drawing the furniture for which the church is better known.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare

Another important read from @samfr.bsky.social on why the NHS is in a state samf.substack.com/p/on-the-edg...

You must have had some rain, I haven’t seen mud like that for months.
Good that someone was around to help before too late.

I litterpick every day. It has nothing to do with loving a country: it has everything to do with contempt for those who drop litter and me being so offended by it that I’ll pick it up to avoid it going into animals or water.

Good morning! Just a few dahlias left, including this ‘Crazy Love’. It wasn’t the best year in terms of quantity, but they’re still as lovely as ever. 🌱

EU recovers £200k from Paul Nuttall and other UKIP parties.

Farage was docked half his MEP salary for 10 months to repay £84,000 of his personal share in the financial shenanigans

Why aren’t the MSM whamming him on this given he claims he will be the next PM?

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Or Scotland or Wales for that matter. For British read english, as usual.

They would be more appropriate. What a farce.

Inspiring things happening in Cutteslowe, north Oxford: "restore and reopen Cutteslowe’s historic greenhouses to create a thriving community space where people connect with nature, food, and each other."
More info for those who might volunteer or support: www.cutteslowegreenhouse.org

We visited Sheffield Park in Sussex yesterday for the autumn colour. There were a lot of people doing the same! It is glorious and worth visiting. Nyssa Sheffield Park came from here. 🌱🇬🇧

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Matlock Dale’, 1962
Artist: SR Badmin

Fascinating, thanks, Allan

I wonder how many miles that prop has done, that does explain a lot of your problems. AG is a new boat!
Lovely about the Castleford team. I recognised that Lotus Cortina instantly, so distinctive. A dear uncle had one when I was a child.

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

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I didn’t know about the houses. Do when were they built? I’ve only found information about them being demolished, photo 8 here www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1765151...

St Mary's Tower and St Mary's Abbey wall, Marygate, York.
The tower was damaged during the siege of York in 1644. The abbey wall later had houses built against it, leading to damage when they were removed in the early 20th century.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#Pencil #drawing

I don’t like bullies either, and it seems there’s always one in the ‘herd’, sometimes latent. A couple of times now, I’ve seen an unsuspected bully emerge when another horse becomes less fit, and the balance is upset, in more ways than one, with bully adding of the misery of the lame/old/frail one 🙁

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I don't like bullies.

#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandponies #haynet

Morning All,

This week’s Bearly Newsworthy is out, featuring the brilliant @writesbright.bsky.social and a roundup of headlines that made me question reality and gently tap my head against my study wall - again.

Perfect with coffee and mild existential dread.

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Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...