Howard_S
@howards.bsky.social
Photographer, sometime publisher, friend of Old Headington.
Praise be! Take 35 minutes to enjoy the somebody taking incredible care about making something both very beautiful and utterly ridiculous.
HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 15h agoGood morning, there's a new Bobby Fingers www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
Gianni Infantino - "the haunted cue-ball" @secondmentions.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it all, says Marina Hyde
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods don't just reduce the amount of traffic using residential streets as shortcuts – they can also help slow traffic down, making roads feel safer and more welcoming for local people. Find out more www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...
Morning all. Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
Mount Fuji, Japan topped with a beautiful lenticular cloud. Lurie Belegurschi Photography Good morning
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.
The spokesperson continued: " Visitor numbers have dropped off a cliff with income a fraction of projections. We hope these figures will be a wake-up call and the Council will move swiftly to cancel entry fees for locals so we can all access this gem of a museum again." Their petition is below.
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When is a hillfort on #hillfortwednesday not a hillfort? When it's at the bottom of a hill in difficult terrain. Cherbury Camp near Charney Bassett is a multi-vallate iron age fort, probably surrounded by marshes when it was built. 📷 mine
Good use here by a local authority of its power to apply for injunctions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Nationalist group leaders agree to stop hoisting St George’s flags in Oxfordshire
Local council secures high court injunction against four leaders of Raise the Colours campaign and ‘persons unknown’
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Let's hear it for the chuggypigs (one word, surely?)
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK also serves nicely as a guide to the future tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society AND a guide to some of the country's best forgotten lo-fi indie bands from the 1990s.
Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...
Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
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Excellent work by Roger Close for the Clarion. Full set of photos here. oxfordclarion.uk/summer-eights/
Summer Eights
Saturday saw the culmination of Summer Eights, the annual college rowing races on the Thames (or rather 'the Isis'). Crowds lined the banks from Iffley Lock to Folly Bridge, cheering on the eight-m...
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Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2mo agoSaturday saw the culmination of Oxford's Summer Eights, the annual college rowing races on the Thames (or rather 'the Isis'). Our photographer was there to capture all the action.
Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.
Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Tomorrow Sunday 24th is the event of the year in Old Headington @headingtonnews.bsky.social
The Friends of Old Headington@oldheadington.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis Sunday afternoon (24 May) it's the Friends of Old Headington Open Gardens! The forecast is for sun, so do come and enjoy the gardens & the teas in the Village Hall. Just £5 for admission to all gardens, £3 for members. #opengardens #oldheadington #headington #oxford
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Little Feat Ry Cooder Beach Boys Grateful Dead Rokia Traore Jim Moray Martin Cathy Peat and Diesel Trio da Kali Brian Wilson
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live! Queen Led Zeppelin Bruce Springsteen Neil Young Bob Marley and the Wailers Elton John Black Sabbath Lindisfarne Stevie Nicks Rolling Stones
The forecast is blue skies and temperatures approaching 30C - perfect for Old Headington's open gardens event!
The Friends of Old Headington@oldheadington.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis Sunday afternoon (24 May) it's the Friends of Old Headington Open Gardens! The forecast is for sun, so do come and enjoy the gardens & the teas in the Village Hall. Just £5 for admission to all gardens, £3 for members. #opengardens #oldheadington #headington #oxford
This Sunday afternoon (24 May) it's the Friends of Old Headington Open Gardens! The forecast is for sun, so do come and enjoy the gardens & the teas in the Village Hall. Just £5 for admission to all gardens, £3 for members. #opengardens #oldheadington #headington #oxford
I've had to pull the car over to let you all know I've just spotted a van advertising a doggy day care centre in Norwich called... Scent-a-Barks. SCENT-A-BARKS
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