Hello Bluesky! Let’s give this a go. I make sculptures. Mostly ceramic monsters with worrying teeth.

Rollicking peasant wedding dance to liven up your autumn day by my colleague Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today. Don’t confuse this with his father’s painting!

Someone must, please, be working up an annotated video of that meeting my Zelenskyy with the ‘you have no cards’ line.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2d ago

Oh boy did someone get played here

Damo Suzuki :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/10/22/d...

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2/2 Anne de Beaujeu from Moulins Triptych. Most powerful women in Europe, but told her daughter that being humble & courteous mattered most. A philosophy not apparent in her portrayal by Jean Hey.

demblades.substack.com/p/what-type-... A video breakdown?! That a right new feature am playing around with in the latest piece. I look at benefits etc if our two RBs and the usual chatter. It's the first time using it so...

What Type of Right Back is a Good Right Back? If a Right Back Could Be Good.

Seriki or Hamza or..... Both?!

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Anyway back to Dana Wynter.

An 11-yr-old, 2nd-hand VW Beetle with 300,000km on the clock pulls over on Fofó the Clown Street. The music goes off, the Smiths silenced, and out gets Sergio Camello: movie aficionado, photographer, drummer, Olympic gold medallist & Europe’s 2nd top scorer www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Sergio Camello: ‘Rayo is the last team standing – it’s football from another time’

Rayo Vallecano’s fascinating forward on his unique club, his musical passions and the goalscoring form that puts him among Europe’e elite

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I think the BBC should close its television news channel to save money It’s so poor now anyway Fund proper journalism, make decent news programmes, maintain Radio 4 Rolling news is awful too

Saint Jerome looks suspiciously cheerful as he ponders death & end times. Easy for him, he’s a saint! By Jan Massys, whose day is today.

New research: Beavers capable of being ‘meta’

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 3d ago

Beavers, everybody. Beavers.

How's it going? Going good, thanks. roguetrooper.com

So. The type of shirt I bought a year ago and really like isn’t available anymore. Where’s AI to help me now!? Alternatively: rare occasions when something fits and looks ok, buy several.

Bookshop to open at former home of Pollocks Toy Museum The former Pollocks Toy Museum at 1 Scala Street. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. Book publisher Persephone is to open a shop in part of the former premises of Pollocks Toy Museum on the corner of Scala Street and Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia....

Bookshop to open at former home of Pollocks Toy Museum

The former Pollocks Toy Museum at 1 Scala Street. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. Book publisher Persephone is to open a shop in part of the former premises of Pollocks Toy Museum on the corner of Scala Street and Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia. A small, niche business which sells books by 20th century women writers, they are due to open at the site this autumn.

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I struggle to look at these pictures because of the pain of losing Tim. But it’s important to talk about him. I’m giving a talk next Friday at the virtual Cycle Touring Festival about the ride we did in Tim’s memory last summer. Please tune in 🩵

A bit late to install a fire extinguisher next to Joan of Arc now

In case you forgot or didn't read it the first time.... Predation and Corpse-Eating in Armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2020/9/... #armadillos #mammals #xenarthrans

Predation and Corpse-Eating in Armadillos — Tetrapod Zoology

It starts with the dragging off of a lamb. It ends with bearmadillos.

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Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.

1938, Sheffield, Bramall Lane. Originally built as a cricket ground, it hosted one Test in 1902, & Yorkshire played there until 1973. Now the home of Sheffield United, in the past it also hosted Sheffield FC, The Wednesday FC, & the 1912 FA Cup Final replay & international football

the book is astoundingly good, @beetlemoses.bsky.social !!! Out of nearly 200 pages, this one got me the best.

Arup Christmas Party 1966. What a night! Probably would have been in the Palace Suite with The Boston Crabs (Alley-oop!) and the Huddster. Coaches at 2.30am! Where have we gone wrong :(

Found these pics of ‘60s Swedish outfit the Knotts over on FB. I love how they look 10 years old. Anyone know anything about them?

Looks like this was a barnstormer of a match. Faroe Islands 2-nil up. Red card. Kazakhstan pull it back and also get a red!

This Oxford Uni building used to be the High School for Boys. Couple of famous old boys include Ronnie Barker, so Spoons, naturally, named the pub next door “The Four Candles.”

How dare you resurrect the memory of this offensive, tuneless dirge

Official Charts@officialcharts.bsky.social · 6d ago

On This Day in 1996, Deep Blue Something's iconic hit Breakfast at Tiffany's reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart! 😋 Check out the group's full chart discography here: https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1505/deep-blue-something/

En serio. Day with my teenagers. Huge enjoyment. Also unblocked sink.

Unblocked sink today. Yay

Public toilet in a Japanese forest, built from rammed earth and timber frame. The foundation is made of crushed stone instead of concrete. The hand wash and toilet bowls are also made of recycled wood chips. Tono Mirai Architects