A +20°C walk today, mostly sunny. Lush green, mirror river, and a trashcan from Pisa.
Then coffee☕😊
Family power, finely fashioned by the skill of craftsmen unknown. This stunning alabaster monument depicts Sir Randal/Randle Brereton and Eleanor Dutton, at St. Oswald’s, Malpas, Cheshire. A fine example of Chellaston work, the effigy dates to the 1520s, prior to Randal’s death. #TombTuesday
Grumpy this morning.
My comments to yellow press rejected again.
Apparently you can't call an aged OF person presenting herself at the capital with her "Bang Bus" "a rude granny," and then ask where's the male equivalent collecting girls into a suspicious van.
Grumpy this morning.
My comments to yellow press rejected again.
Apparently you can't say a smaller Russia would not exist anymore due the laws of nature, the evolution would have fixed such creatures long ago. Now it's too big to vanish, the nature has used other ways to regulate them.
The finesses of medieval music.
An FB memory appeared today. Turku Airshow 2019, Hispano HA-1112-M4L Buchon G-AWHH with the brilliant, late Richard Grace🛩️🩵
Haven't seen the official news, but apparently the Special Effects Wizard Brian Johnson has passed away.
R.I.P. and thanks for changing this little guy's life with 'Space: 1999.'
smallartworks.substack.com/p/very-sad-n...
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane had an eventful war, becoming the nerve centre of an international organisation managing the supply of entertainment from Scapa Flow to Rangoon. It also had a narrow escape. Read more here:
newsletter.mattheweaton.co.uk/p/drury-lane...
'Attic Window', Pimlico (c.1934) by Noel Kilgour
(Newcastle Art Gallery NSW)
Personal circs have been v disruptive (as expected) for the two #BastilleBuild #HistScaleModels from me, but 'ta da'!
Here's show shots of the finished Bréguet 693 and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Bloch MB 174. More in a while, on the built and story, when I next get a chance. In the meantime, enjoy!
