Dawn
@itsdawn.bsky.social
Writer turned gamekeeper. Historian of expat chaos and bad judgement in historic Bruges. https://substack.com/@cobblesandgables
What Bruges politicians are arguing about this week – we only have 50 swans currently, which puts us below the 52 needed to keep off a (likely fake) mediaeval obligation put on the city after Bruges citizens beheaded Maximilian's enforcer Pieter Lanchals in the market place.
Perfect accuracy in European firefighting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Well, this has tipped me over into serious worry about the decline of Britain because how far have we strayed that Rum & raisin is at 5%, a mere 1% ahead of pistachio. Lament, for all is lost!
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d agoYouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. - Raymond Chandler, Farewell, my lovely born on this day, 1888 #RaymondChandler #BookSky
One of our favourite spots in the Hall when it’s a sunny day. The shadow patterns created by sunlight streaming through the East window. 💛
The first time in ages I've seen the word fissiparousness in something I'm reading
This book. I'm not okay. So good, so many devastating strands on colonialism, environment, love, grief.
Reject trumpist & fifa corruption, RETVRN to Original Rules Football (half of a whole working class town against the other half, played over several miles on Pancake Day, you're allowed to shank your neighbour if you write an apology to the pope, chance of the game starting a 6 month civil war)
Club Brugge has had five players in World Cup 2026. But did you know that the club's first-ever opponents were boys from the short-lived English school of Bruges?
Better things are possible
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3w agoMeanwhile in NYC, Mamdani has launched "parents' nights out", offering free, supervised care for children in NYC parks recreation centres: "providing a free, safe and fun experience for children while giving families a few hours to themselves" www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Interesting this, and I think we're going to see more of it – a local record store saying it's no longer allowing local events posters that use AI. "Support your locals. Bruges has many designers and artists that will gladly help with a great design".
Not enough people talk about the mosh pit bottle deposit machines at Albert Heijn supermarkets
All references to the moon and stars in One Thousand and One Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, in order of occurrence, starting at 12 o' clock position. Moon references shows in sequential phases.
Found in one of my dad's old woodworking industry magazines from the 1990's.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves confirms the Clacton by-election will go ahead "It is a farce and a desperate distraction. But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him"
My god. What a game. Good luck to all the Brits in Belgium who get to do it all again tomorrow.
Anthony Chima on Masculinity, Brotherhood, Crime and the Quest for Male Recognition in Nigeria. [MUST READ!] afropean.com/is-cultism-g...
Stopped at the village cricket. I think the real appeal of village cricket is the rope. The game, especially when amateur, can be a beguiling mix of a Midsummer Night’s Dream and a clock made by Lewis Carroll, and I like that all that is just held in place by a rope (which isn’t even in a circle)
In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.
