My friend's daughter is donating her hair to make wigs for children with cancer. The world is terrible. There are so many worthwhile causes to support. But a little girl giving her hair to another very sick child is so pure. Hopeful. Do donate if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/lyra-ha...

Lyra's fundraiser for Little Princess Trust

Help Lianne d raise money to support Little Princess Trust

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for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

"Look around at the paltry nods to accessibility in our public spaces or the degrading assessments of people seeking to claim disability benefits. For people who have lived their lives independently and able-bodied, the slip into dependency can be hard to accept" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform | Emily Kenway

Many fear losing their independence if they agree to care workers looking after them. Any social care review must take this on board, says Emily Kenway, a social policy doctoral researcher

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This is a very interesting article.

Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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Who signed against Spain 22 of 27 EU governments signed the letter after the Ceuta crisis; France, Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal did not

One last plug for this piece on the National Counties Championship and how it is a great alternative to the lack of red ball cricket at this time of the summer: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/alternative-part-two/

Alternative Part Two

The north Barcelona district of Sant Andreu would seem an odd place to begin a blog post about cricket. But there is resonance with the sport and the area of one of Europe’s most visited destinatio…

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The latest edition of ‘The Cricket Statistician’ is now out: Issue No215 dated August 2026, edited on behalf of #ACScricket by Russ Houldin including fine articles by Ollie Randall, Steven Swain, Chris O’Brien, Michael Pulford, Stephen Blades & others. #cricketcounts

Lot of this going on at the moment.

Don't google 'Mary Rider Moore'.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d ago

Apparently, on Christian album covers in the ’60s, the only thing worse than the hair was the obliviousness to the lewd double entendres.

Jeremy Clarkson has said that benefits claimants should be forced to write a letter to a taxpayer every week, thanking them for all their hard work that allows us to receive the money we need, so I did. Unfortunately I don't think the entire text will fit in alt text, but this is an email to my dad.

Trees for Cities: "Heat maps from Friends of the Earth show that across five major English cities, areas with more trees and green spaces are up to 5°C cooler. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations states that strategically planted urban trees can cool the air by up to 8°C."

How Urban Trees Cool Cities and Reduce Urban Heat | Trees for Cities

Discover how urban trees reduce heat, cool cities and tackle the urban heat island effect while creating healthier communities.

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For 'provocative', just read 'arsehole'.

Cupola of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italian Baroque masterpiece, built 1668-1694, designed by Guarino Guarini, architect, mathematician & priest (1624-1683), known for his use of complex geometry & innovative structural engineering techniques.

The Logic of Chance: John Venn, influential English mathematician, logician & philosopher, who advanced understanding of probability, born #OTD 1834. President of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; created Venn diagram. Portrait 1899 by Brock @caiuscollege.bsky.social Venn diagram: Stephen Wildish

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #August

I was tidying away books in the library once when I saw a small child run crying to his mum because he'd picked up a Spanish book and thought he'd suddenly forgotten how to read

Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4

The genius creativity of DISNEY’s incredible Foley Artists back in the day.

Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.

HAWAII FIVE-O (1968-80)

THE VENTURES HAWAII FIVE-O (1969)

@mesnilman.bsky.social Do read the thread.

Phil Jones' body double@philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is so utterly depressing. No sensible person would think Burnham & Co would or indeed could suddenly overturn Labour's EU policy overnight. All they had to do though was say that obviously, given the 2024 manifesto, they don't have a mandate to do x,y,z now, and leave it at that. 1

If you wanted to make a film called 'Apocalypse Now', but that title was taken, what would you call yours?

Tommy Ward, born #onthisday 1887, played 23 Tests for SA as wicketkeeper. On debut bagged a golden pair, hat-trick victim of Jimmy Matthews in each innings. Once scored a Test 64 as opener. Died aged 48 from accidental electrocution while working in a gold mine. #cricketcounts

Duncan Sharpe, born #onthisday 1937, played just 3 Tests for Pakistan But in his cricket career he shook hands with Dwight Eisenhower, outscored Garry Sobers in a big partnership for South Australia; later had his job as assistant groundsman fixed by Don Bradman #cricketcounts