Whatever your political views, it's an interesting turnaround of First Past The Post systems to keep out smaller or newer parties.
I think Friday evening cricket is my favourite of the kids' activities.
First week in the new job done. A place with loads of stories and potential. And, very importantly, a wisteria about to bloom (that I'm desperate to prune properly as well!)
Biddulph Grange Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk. Beautiful (and busy!) in the sunshine. The plant collection is very special and it's full of secret passages and hidden grottos. Completely different to most fancy gardens.
Artist Laura Knight ❤️. Even better for me, she was born in the patch covered by Erewash Museum, so I can add her to the list of stories we don't yet tell, but will find a way!
A couple of years ago, the council removed trees in a wooded area of a park. It felt slightly ruined tbh.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
The very atmospheric D. H. Lawrence museum in Eastwood, Notts. Like a time capsule inside and out - really worth a visit.
Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them.
📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
Let's curl and slay!
We got some curlers to share! These were found at a mid-18th cent. peruke business under what is now Magdalen College, Oxford. Results are almost ready, so get ready to sashay through the centuries!
#archaeology #Artefact #wig #curler #magdalencollege #Oxford #wigslayer
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Oxford Archaeology
Dr Sue Oosthuizen
An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils:
Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats
Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats
Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats
Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats
Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats
'Sunday Afternoon, Hyde Park.' Laura Knight was virtuosic and prolific and popular; she was the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy since 1768. Her name comes with remarkable and redoubtable attached to her achievements. This is from 1952.
