James
@jrchumphries.bsky.social
Boring weirdo. (Son's view.) All my views are my own. Not his. Or my employer's.
Mainly classical music, concrete buildings, politics, The Archers. Hodgkin Lymphoma Club, Isle of Wight (no you don't need a passport, yes it is the most expensive...)
Mainly classical music, concrete buildings, politics, The Archers. Hodgkin Lymphoma Club, Isle of Wight (no you don't need a passport, yes it is the most expensive...)
Italian cathedrals: lol
Still quite proud of my Respighi cover tbh. even if no one knows Vetrate di Chiesa (which doesn't have an English wikipedia page? it has an Italian obvs but also a Japanese one)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7hI...
Still quite proud of my Respighi cover tbh. even if no one knows Vetrate di Chiesa (which doesn't have an English wikipedia page? it has an Italian obvs but also a Japanese one)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7hI...
Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: Cathedrals of Italy (and the basilicas of Rome)
YouTube video by Stained Glass Attitudes
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This piece will help us to tell this history in the museum, and its purchase supports the continuation of traditional bronze casting practices in Benin today.
This plaque is the first ever to depict the looting - and at c.80cm tall also one of the largest Benin bronze plaques!
This plaque is the first ever to depict the looting - and at c.80cm tall also one of the largest Benin bronze plaques!
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@sarahviola.bsky.social you could do this at work, but with racehorses playing the viola.
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@sarahviola.bsky.social you could do this at work, but with racehorses playing the viola.
@sarahviola.bsky.social works with cats too, I've read.
I play UNO with my dog. Obviously I play her cards for her. She still wins about 92% of the time.
July 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@sarahviola.bsky.social works with cats too, I've read.
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
@c20society.bsky.social 25/00884/FUL | Proposed render to all elevations of building and to the curtilage wall adjacent to west elevation; alterations including colour of existing window... Natwest Bank St Thomas Square Ryde Isle Of Wight PO33 2PL share.google/xJTojRVWnuH4...
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Proposed render to all elevations of building and to the curtilage wall adjacent to west elevation; alterations including colour of existing windows and window dec...
share.google
July 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
@c20society.bsky.social 25/00884/FUL | Proposed render to all elevations of building and to the curtilage wall adjacent to west elevation; alterations including colour of existing window... Natwest Bank St Thomas Square Ryde Isle Of Wight PO33 2PL share.google/xJTojRVWnuH4...
@c20society.bsky.social there's a planning application to modify the only modernist building in our town. It's good to see a disused building brought back to life, do you have a view on the use of Cork cladding to exposed concrete panels which kind of make the building what it is? Link to follow.
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Proposed render to all elevations of building and to the curtilage wall adjacent to west elevation; alterations including colour of existing windows and window dec...
share.google
July 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@c20society.bsky.social there's a planning application to modify the only modernist building in our town. It's good to see a disused building brought back to life, do you have a view on the use of Cork cladding to exposed concrete panels which kind of make the building what it is? Link to follow.
Making my trip to Brussels this week to drink beer and eat chips seem a bit trivial.
Anyway I'm in Brussels this week trying to get EU folk to think about the UK trade relationship more positively. The UK blistering about Trump will provide a perfect excuse for their natural caution to continue.
April 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Making my trip to Brussels this week to drink beer and eat chips seem a bit trivial.
Helpful advice from the hospital: “Get there earlier”
'I was fuming after being fined for leaving my car on a grass verge at hospital'
'I'm waiting for a hip operation so I can't run. In the end I had seven minutes to spare'
www.dailypost.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@djhutch.bsky.social hello! Do you know about the Starter Packs? You can rebuild networks from The Other Place really easily.
February 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@djhutch.bsky.social hello! Do you know about the Starter Packs? You can rebuild networks from The Other Place really easily.
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Let us remember Thomas Becket on his feast day at his best: unencumbered with excommunication and politics, smoking a cigarette, arm in arm with Elisabeth Taylor.
December 29, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Let us remember Thomas Becket on his feast day at his best: unencumbered with excommunication and politics, smoking a cigarette, arm in arm with Elisabeth Taylor.
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Good old Viz. They kinda called it.
December 4, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Good old Viz. They kinda called it.
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🚨URGENT - PLEASE SHARE
Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor.
It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏
www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...
Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor.
It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏
www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...
November 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
🚨URGENT - PLEASE SHARE
Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor.
It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏
www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...
Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor.
It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏
www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...
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Let’s see @bsky.app do its thing. Please share. Let’s help Lilian’s heartbroken family find her a stem cell donor match. It’s simple to register
www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...
www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...
November 24, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Let’s see @bsky.app do its thing. Please share. Let’s help Lilian’s heartbroken family find her a stem cell donor match. It’s simple to register
www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...
www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...
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WIN a set of Brutalist #Christmas cards
Repost and follow me to enter
I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tomorrow (Sunday 24 Nov)
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I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tomorrow (Sunday 24 Nov)
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November 23, 2024 at 8:25 AM
WIN a set of Brutalist #Christmas cards
Repost and follow me to enter
I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tomorrow (Sunday 24 Nov)
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Repost and follow me to enter
I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tomorrow (Sunday 24 Nov)
gailmyerscough.co.uk
@quietriotpod.bsky.social interesting section on IHT and farmers. I was struck by this in our local paper in which demonstrators don't mention IHT, but seem proud of the food bank. What are they actually demonstrating against?
November 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
@quietriotpod.bsky.social interesting section on IHT and farmers. I was struck by this in our local paper in which demonstrators don't mention IHT, but seem proud of the food bank. What are they actually demonstrating against?
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Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.
So glad you're here. I can now delete my X account!
Got round to putting Lichfield in my Anglo-Norman Romanesque plans file. I've understood the Early Gothic squared ambulatory but not the post 1085 apse of the Romanesque cathedral that's been entirely obliterated in the current build. The ambulatory aisle was tiny (Rodwell says 1.8 m at floor level)
November 19, 2024 at 10:21 PM
So glad you're here. I can now delete my X account!
🧵SALT🧵
It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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November 19, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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On a day when the media are focused on farmers, there's been another nail in the coffin for opera in the UK.
Today it's been announced that the chorus at Welsh National Opera will be reduced by a third and the redundancies will begin in December.
@wearethemu.bsky.social #equity #savewno
Today it's been announced that the chorus at Welsh National Opera will be reduced by a third and the redundancies will begin in December.
@wearethemu.bsky.social #equity #savewno
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
On a day when the media are focused on farmers, there's been another nail in the coffin for opera in the UK.
Today it's been announced that the chorus at Welsh National Opera will be reduced by a third and the redundancies will begin in December.
@wearethemu.bsky.social #equity #savewno
Today it's been announced that the chorus at Welsh National Opera will be reduced by a third and the redundancies will begin in December.
@wearethemu.bsky.social #equity #savewno
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Brave new world that has such people in it…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
November 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Brave new world that has such people in it…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…