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He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy!
Boustrophedon literally means 'as the Ox turns in ploughing' up, then down the field.
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Boustrophedon literally means 'as the Ox turns in ploughing' up, then down the field.
I left X a month back and it is so much nicer and calmer here. Lot of cat photos though!
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I left X a month back and it is so much nicer and calmer here. Lot of cat photos though!
I do wonder about people angry all day about the WEF, NWO, Chemtrails, migrants etc. Can't look at the sky wthout being angry, every day rehearsing how 'they' are going to take away guns, cars, make them eat beetles.
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I do wonder about people angry all day about the WEF, NWO, Chemtrails, migrants etc. Can't look at the sky wthout being angry, every day rehearsing how 'they' are going to take away guns, cars, make them eat beetles.
Yes, I moved here sick of the relentless tide of genuine racism on X.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Yes, I moved here sick of the relentless tide of genuine racism on X.
Here's an alternative view from a farmers repressentative
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
Solar farms and the British landscape
Falling costs have led to a new round of unsubsidised solar panel developments. Find out more from the NFU's renewable energy expert Dr Jonathan Scurlock.
www.nfuonline.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Here's an alternative view from a farmers repressentative
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
Really they aren't... new nuclear is very expensive and takes a decade to build.
The UK's new nuclear is years off and the cost keeps increasing. Hinkley alone will add a 330 surcharge annually on every bill for 30 years.
The UK's new nuclear is years off and the cost keeps increasing. Hinkley alone will add a 330 surcharge annually on every bill for 30 years.
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Really they aren't... new nuclear is very expensive and takes a decade to build.
The UK's new nuclear is years off and the cost keeps increasing. Hinkley alone will add a 330 surcharge annually on every bill for 30 years.
The UK's new nuclear is years off and the cost keeps increasing. Hinkley alone will add a 330 surcharge annually on every bill for 30 years.
not a brilliant photo, but this is a Chiltern Gentian (Gentianella germanica), from the chalk Chiltern Hills, UK
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
not a brilliant photo, but this is a Chiltern Gentian (Gentianella germanica), from the chalk Chiltern Hills, UK
I live in the area where they film in: more interested in spotting local places than in the plots sometimes...
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I live in the area where they film in: more interested in spotting local places than in the plots sometimes...
Just to add that is a truly amazing museum... partly built into the Baths and with a quadrangle designed by Michaelangelo full of immense pieces of statuary attached.
The nearby Palazzo Massimo museum has even more mosaics, wall paintings and fittings from Caligula's Lake Nemi pleasure barge.
The nearby Palazzo Massimo museum has even more mosaics, wall paintings and fittings from Caligula's Lake Nemi pleasure barge.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Just to add that is a truly amazing museum... partly built into the Baths and with a quadrangle designed by Michaelangelo full of immense pieces of statuary attached.
The nearby Palazzo Massimo museum has even more mosaics, wall paintings and fittings from Caligula's Lake Nemi pleasure barge.
The nearby Palazzo Massimo museum has even more mosaics, wall paintings and fittings from Caligula's Lake Nemi pleasure barge.
This episode had a special effect of huge white reflective bubbles... which my father replicated by pouring liquid nitrogen down his lab sink after running warm water through it...
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This episode had a special effect of huge white reflective bubbles... which my father replicated by pouring liquid nitrogen down his lab sink after running warm water through it...
In the Musee D'Orsay, I believe...
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In the Musee D'Orsay, I believe...
I've noticed the song thrushes have started up singing over the last week. wonder if they think its spring...
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I've noticed the song thrushes have started up singing over the last week. wonder if they think its spring...
BBC Radio4 report this morning said 3 million returned... ???
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
BBC Radio4 report this morning said 3 million returned... ???
And here's an example where writing on wax was preserved - 'Although the wax from the tablets was not preserved, small scratches left on the surface of the wooden tablets allowed for a recreation of the original writing content'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloombe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloombe...
Bloomberg tablets - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
And here's an example where writing on wax was preserved - 'Although the wax from the tablets was not preserved, small scratches left on the surface of the wooden tablets allowed for a recreation of the original writing content'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloombe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloombe...
If you look closely you can see this lady also has a similar stylus and a wax tablet... fresco of Terentius Neo and wife from Pompeii, in the Naples Museum.
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If you look closely you can see this lady also has a similar stylus and a wax tablet... fresco of Terentius Neo and wife from Pompeii, in the Naples Museum.
I can't seem to find that list - if you have a link, I'd very much like to see it!
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I can't seem to find that list - if you have a link, I'd very much like to see it!
'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes'
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes'
Well I want that. My entire social circle want that. There is surely now a majority for it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Well I want that. My entire social circle want that. There is surely now a majority for it.
Absolutely brilliant.. didn't see that coming. Made me laugh, on a very grey day!
December 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Absolutely brilliant.. didn't see that coming. Made me laugh, on a very grey day!
Yes, me too: these were in mulberry trees in a small square.
Though I have now seen them in London, Dusseldorf and Rome as well!
Though I have now seen them in London, Dusseldorf and Rome as well!
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Yes, me too: these were in mulberry trees in a small square.
Though I have now seen them in London, Dusseldorf and Rome as well!
Though I have now seen them in London, Dusseldorf and Rome as well!
It is, though that's back in May: we were queuing for the amazing David Hockney retrospective.
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It is, though that's back in May: we were queuing for the amazing David Hockney retrospective.
His Louis Vuitton Centre in Paris... a poor photograph, which I mostly took to show the size of the queue we were in ...
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
His Louis Vuitton Centre in Paris... a poor photograph, which I mostly took to show the size of the queue we were in ...