St Mark-le-bone
@marklebone.bsky.social
at the Sign of the Wind-Mill opposite Twattling-Street
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Heard the exit's blocked
February 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Heard the exit's blocked
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One of my favorite pictures I’ve taken, just wish I had had my real camera for it instead of my iPhone 😅
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One of my favorite pictures I’ve taken, just wish I had had my real camera for it instead of my iPhone 😅
They're going to take back Calais
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT from Deputy Leader @LibDemDaisy.bsky.social
Dropping tomorrow at 9am.
Watch this space.
Dropping tomorrow at 9am.
Watch this space.
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
They're going to take back Calais
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“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
![I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly.
Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare?
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable.
It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am.
I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...]
One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think?
[...]
To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly.
Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
I recently read Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black, which was excellent, but i couldn't manage to see the main character's name - Al - without reading "A.I."
I just think the name Al's ruined now
I just think the name Al's ruined now
A growing number of political weirdos are asking Wikipedia "who the hell is Al Carns" and then confidently explaining in group chats what they know about "Al Carns", please look out for your friends at this time.
February 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
I recently read Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black, which was excellent, but i couldn't manage to see the main character's name - Al - without reading "A.I."
I just think the name Al's ruined now
I just think the name Al's ruined now
Saw my first waymo in London this morning. It had already passed me, so I didn't get a chance to step out in front of it, as is my god given right.
“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Self-driving taxis are coming to London – should we be worried? | Jack Stilgoe
Waymo’s cars were first rolled out in San Francisco, but the English capital’s old roads, pelican crossings and jaywalkers may pose issues for AI, says science and technology professor Jack Stilgoe
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Saw my first waymo in London this morning. It had already passed me, so I didn't get a chance to step out in front of it, as is my god given right.
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I've just invented the music genre "bagpipe jazz" and you're all going to find out what it sounds like unless my demands are met
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
I've just invented the music genre "bagpipe jazz" and you're all going to find out what it sounds like unless my demands are met
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Dad has had to go home today because Becky has come into season & is due to be mated.
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Dad has had to go home today because Becky has come into season & is due to be mated.
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People who are interested in trains are ambivalent about maps, I'm sure it'll be fine.
January 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM
People who are interested in trains are ambivalent about maps, I'm sure it'll be fine.
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Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
Here's two pairs
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Here's two pairs
4° it's positively balmy
January 6, 2026 at 9:39 PM
4° it's positively balmy
In 2026 I will manifest a ghost
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In 2026 I will manifest a ghost
A lady and I (regular co-commuters) raced against each other between the lower and upper escalators at Warren Street underground station.
(I'd been watching Curb your enthusiasm; in retrospect it felt like quite a Larry David situation.)
(I'd been watching Curb your enthusiasm; in retrospect it felt like quite a Larry David situation.)
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A lady and I (regular co-commuters) raced against each other between the lower and upper escalators at Warren Street underground station.
(I'd been watching Curb your enthusiasm; in retrospect it felt like quite a Larry David situation.)
(I'd been watching Curb your enthusiasm; in retrospect it felt like quite a Larry David situation.)
I am Lord Protector of England
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am Lord Protector of England
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How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
December 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
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another for my adultbel series
August 9, 2024 at 7:57 AM
another for my adultbel series
