Augustten
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Books, theatre & some cooking. Terrible at spelling!
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Harry Specters is a chocolate company with a social purpose – it was founded to provide employment and work experience for autistic people.
Inside the chocolate factory helping autistic people find work
www.bigissue.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Harry Specters is a chocolate company with a social purpose – it was founded to provide employment and work experience for autistic people.
Just beautiful 'How growing a sunflower helped me fight anorexia' www.bbc.com/news/article...
'How a prescription to grow a sunflower helped me fight anorexia'
'Green social prescribing' schemes are being used by NHS doctors to improve patients' mental health.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Just beautiful 'How growing a sunflower helped me fight anorexia' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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There is a long tradition in European art in portraying happiness; with Albert Marquet's depiction of the Dune de Pyla near Arcachon, on France's Atlantic coast (1935) he has created a picture the mind can play in.
October 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is a long tradition in European art in portraying happiness; with Albert Marquet's depiction of the Dune de Pyla near Arcachon, on France's Atlantic coast (1935) he has created a picture the mind can play in.
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Rovers Return, Withy Grove, Manchester, 1923, painting by George Baxendale Kearey (1896-1945). #NorthernArt
September 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Rovers Return, Withy Grove, Manchester, 1923, painting by George Baxendale Kearey (1896-1945). #NorthernArt
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Hear the story behind the new album by Mary Chapin Carpenter, @juliefowlis.bsky.social and Karine Polwart, as they join Matthew on this month’s Official Folk Albums Chart Show.
Watch here: youtu.be/weV4QcI_K6E
Watch here: youtu.be/weV4QcI_K6E
March 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hear the story behind the new album by Mary Chapin Carpenter, @juliefowlis.bsky.social and Karine Polwart, as they join Matthew on this month’s Official Folk Albums Chart Show.
Watch here: youtu.be/weV4QcI_K6E
Watch here: youtu.be/weV4QcI_K6E
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Belgian artist/patron Anna Boch liked to promote young or unknown artists, & was apparently the first & only buyer of van Gogh’s work during his lifetime. She continued to buy his work, such as ‘Peach Blossoms, La Crau’, after he died
January 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Belgian artist/patron Anna Boch liked to promote young or unknown artists, & was apparently the first & only buyer of van Gogh’s work during his lifetime. She continued to buy his work, such as ‘Peach Blossoms, La Crau’, after he died
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December 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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My greatly anticipated 😉 winter forecast 2024/25 is live the blog post is unlocked all have access.
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UK & Europe Winter Forecast 2024/25 | TheSnowDreamer
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December 1, 2024 at 3:52 PM
My greatly anticipated 😉 winter forecast 2024/25 is live the blog post is unlocked all have access.
Please like and share! ❄️⛄️
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Great initiative to promote skills & talent.
Mother to launch craft foundation in memory of son www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mother to launch craft foundation in memory of son www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent: Mother to launch craft foundation in memory of son
Sammy's Foundation is being launched to teach young people with disabilities craftmanship skills.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Great initiative to promote skills & talent.
Mother to launch craft foundation in memory of son www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mother to launch craft foundation in memory of son www.bbc.com/news/article...
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You flatter me! Thanks for your lovely words.
This is a much more civilised place, I’m liking it more and more, it was a ghost town but it’s really picking up now.
This is a much more civilised place, I’m liking it more and more, it was a ghost town but it’s really picking up now.
November 14, 2024 at 6:09 PM
You flatter me! Thanks for your lovely words.
This is a much more civilised place, I’m liking it more and more, it was a ghost town but it’s really picking up now.
This is a much more civilised place, I’m liking it more and more, it was a ghost town but it’s really picking up now.
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Sometimes the icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon remind me of bars of Toblerone (not usually colour-wise, although some are muddy from the moraine). I loved this one, which broke up a little soon after, when part of the bigger piece it was attached to broke off, causing a tidal wave!
#Iceland
#Iceland
November 7, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Sometimes the icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon remind me of bars of Toblerone (not usually colour-wise, although some are muddy from the moraine). I loved this one, which broke up a little soon after, when part of the bigger piece it was attached to broke off, causing a tidal wave!
#Iceland
#Iceland
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Showery low pressure for the UK to start the week. What will become an extratropical Low, Kirk, heading for the Bay of Biscay as AEMET (Spain) and Meteo France watch. Awaiting heavy rain and gales there. Still some uncertainty around ex-Kirk's track through mainland Europe. (Chart Netweather)
October 7, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Showery low pressure for the UK to start the week. What will become an extratropical Low, Kirk, heading for the Bay of Biscay as AEMET (Spain) and Meteo France watch. Awaiting heavy rain and gales there. Still some uncertainty around ex-Kirk's track through mainland Europe. (Chart Netweather)
The Words I never Wrote by Jane Thynne - 2 sisters caught up in opposing sides of WW2. Nice account of pre war glam. What this book does so well is describe the nightmare & relentlessness of fascism for all walks of life. Had to take a break from reading once or twice, all too believable.
September 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
The Words I never Wrote by Jane Thynne - 2 sisters caught up in opposing sides of WW2. Nice account of pre war glam. What this book does so well is describe the nightmare & relentlessness of fascism for all walks of life. Had to take a break from reading once or twice, all too believable.
Looking forward to this.
A Tupperware of Ashes | National Theatre
Meera Syal is Queenie in Tanika Gupta's new vivid and heart-breaking family drama, A Tupperware of Ashes.
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
September 23, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Looking forward to this.
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All about the new #stormnames www.netweather.tv/weather-fore...
Storm names for 2024/25 including Ashley, Bert, Hugo and Mavis
The new list of storm names has been issued by the UK Met Office, Ireland's Met Eireann and the Dutch KNMI. Last season reached L for Lilian. Will we see Storm James and Storm Kayleigh this time?
www.netweather.tv
August 29, 2024 at 8:07 AM
All about the new #stormnames www.netweather.tv/weather-fore...
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See, the nice thing about reading is that the really important stuff happens inside your head. Whatever you think & feel about a book is yours & yours alone. And I think it's nice to have something completely to yourself, especially something that doesn't take anything from anyone else.
August 14, 2024 at 11:02 PM
See, the nice thing about reading is that the really important stuff happens inside your head. Whatever you think & feel about a book is yours & yours alone. And I think it's nice to have something completely to yourself, especially something that doesn't take anything from anyone else.