I sometimes wonder if I’d be better off making videos of me doing running repairs on my clothes (fpund myself narrating debobbling some keks just now) Anyway. Tours! Nottingham! Architecture as entertainment! Watsonfothergillwalk.com
Lucy Brouwer
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Small thoughts and big ideas. Tour guide, researcher, reader, procrastinator. Nottinghamshire & environs. WatsonFothergillWalk.com
I know I probably say this every year but Art Fund should do Art Pass for 3 months for £20 even if you’ve been a member before! If you don’t live in London it’s too expensive for a year. Paying double for exhibitions on top of train fare =tax on provincial art lovers!
Also what are the odds that the first day it’s actually chilly enough for a jacket I’m at an outdoor show in a draft. #maso
It always bothers me at a gig when the sound desk person decides to play a stone cold classic as the warm up (Carol King’s Tapestry in full?!) doesn’t this put terrible pressure on the artists? Like, “follow THAT!”
Ok I’ve not tested the search much but the article saving function is mostly Ok once you get the hang of it. Harumph.
Lucy Brouwer@notrock.bsky.social · last wk.Oh fantastic! The crappest interface in research (Find My Past) has been integrated into the main British Newspaper Archive site. Balls!
Oh fantastic! The crappest interface in research (Find My Past) has been integrated into the main British Newspaper Archive site. Balls!
Great chamber of a great woman: throne, tapestry, & A++ plasterwork w/ wild animals paying tribute to goddess Diana. For Bess of Hardwick, who was born OTD in 1527.
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Rob Newman’s early 1990s character Ray- the man with the sarcastic tone of voice. “Oh no, what a personal disaster.”
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Gotta be worth a try Save The Mack - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Can any readers recommend lesser-known novels with female protagonists / authors set in England / UK (rather than USA etc) in late Victorian period 1870-1890s? #booksky
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Watson Fothergill Walk: Architecture of Victorian Nottingham
Join tour guide Lucy Brouwer to explore the Nottingham city centre buildings of Victorian architect Watson Fothergill.
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Thought the guy in Oxfam was chancing it with the mark up on these Virago Barbara Comyns editions that I found today, but just looked up the going rate on abebooks! Wtf.
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As mentioned in reference to Nottingham’s Emett Clock in my episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour (available wherever you get your podcasts)
Henry Rothwell@henryrothwell.bsky.social · 3w ago1979: Masquerade - Kit Williams' Treasure Hunt | Nationwide | BBC Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1PP...
I’m currently at the staring despairingly at social media stage of looking for paid work- historical research, writing, editing, talking about buildings, training tour guides- if anyone knows of anything I can do remotely, please pass it on. 🙏🏻
I wonder if Dr Hannah Fry will ever get around to telling us how Greggs manage to get a cup of tea so right when all their competitors get it so wrong and charge you twice as much for it.
A ludicrous piece (moaning about Tour Guides) in my parents’ semi-ironically purchased copy of The Oldie has made me so irate that I’m considering submitting a rebuttal. Is that a stupid idea? Or am I just angry about entitled red trouser-wearing toffs?
Previews of my Edinburgh spoken word show - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - are taking place next week in Nottingham, Liverpool and London. Tickets are just £3 (£5 in London). Hope to see some of you there - fixr.co/organiser/62...
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The Palm House- one of those novels where you just can’t see how the author made so much out of seemingly so little, to such astonishing effect. I also spent some of the early 1990s queuing for comedians’ autographs, thankfully not involved in the other comedian-related incidents related within.
Dream: Stewart Lee was giving me a lift from Edinburgh, we ate some amazing fudge. Went to fetch his sandwiches from his digs in a Scottish Country Dance Shoe Workshop, posh woman asks me “Where do you bottom?” Realise this means where do I live “down south”. #sleepinaheatwave
NOTTINGHAM! I’m doing a special preview performance of my Edinburgh show at the Vat and Fiddle on the 20th July. Tickets are just £3 which is basically the price of a Fredo these days fixr.co/event/the-um...
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