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Winter Sunrise, S R Badmin.
Illustration of snowy landscape of wintered woodland with large trees and smaller firs, deer on hillside, sunrise.
December 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Reading the Hobbit for the first time in decades and reminded what an excellent writer Tolkien could be, with long, fluid, vibrant sentences that seem to engage you in conversation. None of these short, bland and limp sentences so fashionable these days - just a joy to read. Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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In the bleak midwinter.
December 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (18th December 1987). "By the thump Minnie Caldwell, you take the barm cake".
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Grote Pietenhuis waarderingstweet
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Belgian artist Yorick Efira uses cardboard, wood and acetate to create stunning replicas of Brussels Belgium iconic landscapes and architecture.

Artist: Yorick Efira
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time
The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time
The delicate experimentation of the band’s debut may not have chimed with the post-punk 1980s, but its durability makes this deluxe reissue thoroughly deserved
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November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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‘Is this doable?’: why political paralysis threatens an ambitious Brussels arts complex
‘Is this doable?’: why political paralysis threatens an ambitious Brussels arts complex
Kanal is 95% complete and on schedule but plans to slash its budget mean conversation around its opening have moved from ‘when’ to ‘if’
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November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#RIP Udo Kier. One of those utterly unique actors who turned the act of ageing itself into a work of art.
Young Udo Kier Udo Kier in 2025.
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Dagsluiting
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Denys Lasdun’s University of East Anglia 1966/7 - the ziggurats looking particularly gorgeous in the late afternoon sun. Photo taken in 2018
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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🔭 Comet Lemmon Beyond Lomnický Peak

Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Barsa

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An image of the night sky over distant mountains features a comet with long tails. One of the tails goes nearly to the edge of the picture on the upper right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Studio-opname van de nieuwe Simca. Rond 1965.

"Ten behoeve van de introductie van het nieuwe model in Nederland, diende het fotograferen onder geheimhouding te gebeuren."

📷: H.Hilterman/Spaarnestad
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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DIESEL POWER ON BRITISH RAILWAYS (1965) | https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-diesel-power-on-british-railways-1965-online
An image captured from DIESEL POWER ON BRITISH RAILWAYS (1965)
October 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Airbus A320 flies past Boeing 737 as most-delivered jet in history www.reuters.com/business/aer... (via @reuters.com)
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October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"If there is a frontline in the current battle against demolition it is Brussels. Faced with huge amounts of redundant industrial, infrastructural and office space, the city is pioneering circular architecture."
Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse
Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?
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October 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Spangles in architecture. 1963 Ganshoren house by Brunswyck and Wathelet.
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This vs Kathy Burke's "underfucked"
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Three (24th September 1979).

"Poor loves. Trained to Empire. Trained to rule the waves. Englishmen could be proud then."
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The World of Yesterday but with street view not Zweig. The video club, the cybercafe and the remains of Café l'Aquarium, founded 1938. Rue du Marché aux Poulets, Brussels (image from April 2009).
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Happy Ever After (12th September 1978). Terry's looking for an obscure record. The manager of the local record emporium (Julian Orchard) is of no use but luckily Miss Snead (Damaris Hayman) is able to assist ....
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Musée des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden December 1938 About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Chemical engineering is a big deal in Belgium! First thing you see leave the airport 😎
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Lovely assemblage of early carboniferous crinoids seen on the paving slabs in Leuven train station in Belgium 🤩

#FossilFriday
A dark grey paving slabs with a jumble of light grey fossil crinoid stems deposited at various orientations.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📷 Boris Lipnitzki.
Premier train aérodynamique à vapeur PLM au départ de la gare de Lyon
1937. Paris Bonnes vacances.
July 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Richard Skinner gave me free rein to write about cinema for his forthcoming anthology The Carbon Arc. Having already revisited two of the films that made an indelible impression on me when I was young (What a Carve Up and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) this was a chance to discuss the third.
The Bond film that made me a writer | The Observer
Jonathan Coe’s parents took him to see On Her Majesty’s Secret Service at the age of eight – and it has influenced his novels ever since. It just took a ...
observer.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM