Alan
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Music, wildlife, gardening, cars, art, history, good food, a glass of wine or beer, the company of good friends. Some of the things I love. And my partner too of course 🙂
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🪬🧿 According to society, luxury is: cars, expensive clothes, and a lavish lifestyle.
The real luxuries in life: slow mornings, the freedom to choose, a good night's sleep, peace of mind, calm and boring days, being present, people you love, and people who love you back.
The real luxuries in life: slow mornings, the freedom to choose, a good night's sleep, peace of mind, calm and boring days, being present, people you love, and people who love you back.
August 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🪬🧿 According to society, luxury is: cars, expensive clothes, and a lavish lifestyle.
The real luxuries in life: slow mornings, the freedom to choose, a good night's sleep, peace of mind, calm and boring days, being present, people you love, and people who love you back.
The real luxuries in life: slow mornings, the freedom to choose, a good night's sleep, peace of mind, calm and boring days, being present, people you love, and people who love you back.
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August 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The Baroness de Badassiere.
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Baroness de Badassiere.
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This lively 700 year-old copper goose is actually an incense burner from the early Ming dynasty, China. Smoke from the burner inside the body would vent out through the bird’s open beak
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This lively 700 year-old copper goose is actually an incense burner from the early Ming dynasty, China. Smoke from the burner inside the body would vent out through the bird’s open beak
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Georges Seurat's 'The Morning Walk,' (1885) is a key work in the founding of the Neo-Impressionist movement, at one of the decisive moments in the evolution of early modernist painting in which Seurat expressed his ideas on light, colour, and optics in painting.
April 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Georges Seurat's 'The Morning Walk,' (1885) is a key work in the founding of the Neo-Impressionist movement, at one of the decisive moments in the evolution of early modernist painting in which Seurat expressed his ideas on light, colour, and optics in painting.
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April 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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'Bathers at Low Tide, Sennen,' is a triumphant example of Laura Knight's Cornish work. Drawn like many of their generation to the English coast, Harold and Laura Knight lived and worked in the Yorkshire town of Staithes in the late 19thC before discovering Cornwall. This is 1915.
April 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
'Bathers at Low Tide, Sennen,' is a triumphant example of Laura Knight's Cornish work. Drawn like many of their generation to the English coast, Harold and Laura Knight lived and worked in the Yorkshire town of Staithes in the late 19thC before discovering Cornwall. This is 1915.
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'Logan's Rock,' (c1916) is one of the strongest works Laura Knight made featuring this area of Cornwall during WW1 - it is a painting which feels as modern to a contemporary audience as it did over 100 years ago.
April 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
'Logan's Rock,' (c1916) is one of the strongest works Laura Knight made featuring this area of Cornwall during WW1 - it is a painting which feels as modern to a contemporary audience as it did over 100 years ago.
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Peatlands are precious wild landscapes that are home to insects, birds and plants - some of which aren't found anywhere else. But years of damage has left 80% of the UK’s peatlands in poor condition. Help protect them by choosing #peatfree compost.
More: bit.ly/3FWR4Jy
More: bit.ly/3FWR4Jy
April 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Peatlands are precious wild landscapes that are home to insects, birds and plants - some of which aren't found anywhere else. But years of damage has left 80% of the UK’s peatlands in poor condition. Help protect them by choosing #peatfree compost.
More: bit.ly/3FWR4Jy
More: bit.ly/3FWR4Jy
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Love this beautiful Art Nouveau style tenement tile pattern, featuring Scottish Bluebells. It's from a tenement close in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #scottishbluebells #tiles #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiling #artnouveau #bluebells
#glasgow #architecture #scottishbluebells #tiles #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiling #artnouveau #bluebells
March 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Love this beautiful Art Nouveau style tenement tile pattern, featuring Scottish Bluebells. It's from a tenement close in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #scottishbluebells #tiles #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiling #artnouveau #bluebells
#glasgow #architecture #scottishbluebells #tiles #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiling #artnouveau #bluebells
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Artist Gustave Caillebotte had a passionate interest in sailing and yacht-building, and depicts here ‘The Seine at Argenteuil,’ a popular location for the Impressionists. He gifted this work to his friend Renoir (1883). More at www.artinsociety.com/exploring-gu...; www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
March 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Artist Gustave Caillebotte had a passionate interest in sailing and yacht-building, and depicts here ‘The Seine at Argenteuil,’ a popular location for the Impressionists. He gifted this work to his friend Renoir (1883). More at www.artinsociety.com/exploring-gu...; www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
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'The Green Sea.' (1917) When she had set up home in Langford Place, St John's Wood, Laura Knight looked back with fondness to her time in Cornwall. 'Nostalgia, comes each spring in London, for the rain, the mist, for the glory that is Cornwall, the mystic place ...'
March 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
'The Green Sea.' (1917) When she had set up home in Langford Place, St John's Wood, Laura Knight looked back with fondness to her time in Cornwall. 'Nostalgia, comes each spring in London, for the rain, the mist, for the glory that is Cornwall, the mystic place ...'
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Remarkable 3,200-year-old Egyptian solid gold wine strainer used to remove lees from wine before drinking, possibly at temple festivals (12cm diameter, Dynasty 19, Temple of Bastet) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
March 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Remarkable 3,200-year-old Egyptian solid gold wine strainer used to remove lees from wine before drinking, possibly at temple festivals (12cm diameter, Dynasty 19, Temple of Bastet) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Sidney Starr's paintings of the late 1880s (this is 1886) were markedly Whistlerian. When 'Figures at the Seaside,' was exhibited in 1887, a critic commented the picture: 'filled me with quiet sensations, awe and admiration.'
March 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sidney Starr's paintings of the late 1880s (this is 1886) were markedly Whistlerian. When 'Figures at the Seaside,' was exhibited in 1887, a critic commented the picture: 'filled me with quiet sensations, awe and admiration.'
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Relatively little is known of the early career of the Suffolk painter Henry Bright. A pupil of John Sell Cotman, and a friend of Turner, he was a master at depicting the effects of sunlight and shadow, managing to find beauty and interest in almost any subject. This is 1850-ish.
March 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Relatively little is known of the early career of the Suffolk painter Henry Bright. A pupil of John Sell Cotman, and a friend of Turner, he was a master at depicting the effects of sunlight and shadow, managing to find beauty and interest in almost any subject. This is 1850-ish.
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'Coastal Sunset.' (c1970) Kyffin Williams's influences were primarily expressionist and he felt an affinity with Van Gogh, it was not self-aggrandisement but a perpetual fascination, not least that they were both epileptic, that led to him to make comparisons.
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
'Coastal Sunset.' (c1970) Kyffin Williams's influences were primarily expressionist and he felt an affinity with Van Gogh, it was not self-aggrandisement but a perpetual fascination, not least that they were both epileptic, that led to him to make comparisons.
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Spotted, from the RRS Sir David Attenborough in the Southern Ocean 🪶💙
As we head towards South Georgia we will see more wildlife, starting with a few black-browed Albatross. #BIOPOLE2
February 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Spotted, from the RRS Sir David Attenborough in the Southern Ocean 🪶💙
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Like many artists of his generation, Frank Duveneck travelled and studied in Europe. This portrait was painted in Munich in the mid-1870s when he was experimenting with new techniques inspired primarily from the Dutch and Flemish 17thC masters, most notably Frans Hals.
February 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Like many artists of his generation, Frank Duveneck travelled and studied in Europe. This portrait was painted in Munich in the mid-1870s when he was experimenting with new techniques inspired primarily from the Dutch and Flemish 17thC masters, most notably Frans Hals.
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Old Tjikko - A 9,550 year old Norway spruce, Fulufjället Mountain, Sweden 🌲
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
February 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Old Tjikko - A 9,550 year old Norway spruce, Fulufjället Mountain, Sweden 🌲
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
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Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. It will be housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum
January 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. It will be housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum