In process ‘This summer’. Part of a series that I’m making about the physical and emotional impact of climate change in my near environment
Hilary Fawcett
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Art, design, Italy, football (SAFC), politics, music and coffee. Looking out across the mighty North Sea Artwork at hilaryfawcett.artweb.com
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is appalling. Young women have an increasingly grim time
Victims minister 'not surprised' by Tyneside school 'rape list'
Alex Davies-Jones says she is "horrified" by the content of a film highlighting abuse girls face.
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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St. Cuthbert’s Cave - Reputed to be one of the resting places for the body of St. Cuthbert on its journey from Lindisfarne to Durham during the 11th century. The cave is situated in the Kyloe Hills near Holburn in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Northumberland #Cuthbert
A tiger from the Barton Farm Orpheus Mosaic which was discovered in 1825. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Cirencester #CoriniumMuseum
Duncan Grant's interior was painted in London in 1939 at his studio, 8 Fitzroy Street; destroyed in an air raid the following year. The picture in the background is a study for 'The Flower Gatherers,' a mural for RMS Queen Mary - later rejected by Cunard.
From today’s Daily Mirror After having awarded Trump the FIFA Peace Prize and setting up FIFA offices in Trump Tower, it was reported that Trump had proposed Infantino to be the next UN Secretary General ! The insanity knows no bounds
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Uefa to boycott World Cup if Fifa plans go through At last some people showing the guts to stop these con merchants
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... This sounds great. Andrew Scott is such a fine actor, and what a role
Andrew Scott’s Oscar-tipped Ian Charleson biopic to open London film festival
‘Few films will leave a lasting imprint on audiences this year quite like Elsinore,’ LFF director says of movie about Chariots of Fire actor
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youtube.com/watch?v=qwFY... Remembering the wonderful Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith - "Trouble in the Fields"
YouTube video by Charlie Burttram
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My days of sturm and drang are over, I don’t want searing emotion in my old age. I want to be engaged but not disturbed. In this vein I thought I’d give The Hairdresser Mysteries a go. MISTAKE
Siward, earl of Northumbria’s invasion of Alba climaxed with the defeat of King Macbethad mac Findlaích (Macbeth) in battle #OTD in 1054. Macbethad survived the clash, in which the Annals of Ulster says 3,000 Scots and 1,500 English died. Siward lost his son Ásbjǫrn and nephew.
Ann Droid is one of those sitcoms where the premise and marketing material make it look pretty dire, one-joke trash, but it is in fact, a very gentle and humane comedy that is worth watching. If you were turned off as i was give it a try anyway! You may be pleasantly surprised!
This relentlessly hot summer feels apocalyptic somehow. Evidence of accelerating climate change is everywhere, parts of Europe on fire, agriculture massively affected. Its all moving too quickly for successful adaptation, and in the background there is the creep of fascism I struggle to be hopeful