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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 19h

Anyhoo. Lee Miller at Tate Britain. Very good. Very busy. Lots of photos we’d not seen before and my daughter and I are Lee Miller nerds. A journey that began when I saw a Channel 4 documentary in the mid 1980s culminating in her son showing my daughter negatives in the archive in 2025.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 15h

I also had a fantastic idea for the title of a print magazine today. I’m sure someone has already used it. No idea what the magazine will be about but that hardly feels important. The title and logo are fantastic.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 15h

At 7% not quite a breakfast beer. Daybreak IPA by Wiper and True, Bristol. The mosaic is strong on this one. (I like mosaic. And there really is a bit of rubber here. Maybe burnt rubber. Maybe they should have called it Skidmark.) #beer

A cloudy orange beer. White can. Orange window graphic.

Back label. Idaho 7 and Mosaic hops. Jilly Goolden-style tasting notes. Rubber. Dark berries.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

Ooh. Thank you for posting this.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

Harvey’s Ouse Booze, 6.5%. Seriously delicious. Fragrant pudding of a beer. #beer

An amber ale. The can has a picture of a river in flood and a fish.

Back label. On 12 October 2000 the brewery was evacuated due to flooding and all the held completed brews were combined. This beer commemorates the event.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 19h

The exhibition poster has already sold out, which gives an indication of just how popular this exhibition is.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 19h

Anyhoo. Lee Miller at Tate Britain. Very good. Very busy. Lots of photos we’d not seen before and my daughter and I are Lee Miller nerds. A journey that began when I saw a Channel 4 documentary in the mid 1980s culminating in her son showing my daughter negatives in the archive in 2025.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve long thought there should be a Tommy Flowers film.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 19h

Where I’m calling from.

A black and white photograph of Picasso and Antony Penrose as a child taken by Anthony’s mother Lee Miller. We’ve met one of the people in this photo a few times. Which is a nice thing for my daughter to be able to say.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 23h

I’d love to see it again. Although it would be bittersweet.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Seems odd to see people I know would be repulsed at the idea that the state impose death on an offender celebrating other lags doing it.

legalclaret @legalclaret.bsky.social · 1d

Watkins was one of the most vile criminals I have ever read about, an offender whose depravity fell to lows even this hardened ex-prosecutor had not seen before. I am however uncomfortable with the celebrations of his murder. /1

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 1d

3. And New Grotesk Square Six, a modern digital font supposedly created from historic wooden type blocks, is *super* close I think.

a2-type.co.uk/new-grotesk-...

The name DEIGHTON in nice squared off sans serif letters.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 1d

Very close!

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 1d

Audiobook? If so who’s reading it?

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 1d

If you've ever wondered what Virgina Woolf would look like packaged like a late 60s Len Deighton... I know I have...

A fake cover of Mrs Dalloway styled after the 1966 Penguin paperback of Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. There is a heavily screened black and white photo of Vanessa Redgrave. Orange stripes.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Floyd On France is on iPlayer! Obviously has been on YouTube for ages but here he is in all his higher definition glory, being told off by old ladies, pissed, plating abysmally. It was this that made me love cooking

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...