Christopher Howse

Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74

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@WilfridPinkPig Oh, those are good. Have you tried them with artichokes?

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The Government "Be Ready" campaign urges us to stockpile tinned food that doesn’t require heating. Apparently this includes baked beans. But what other tinned food would you like to eat cold? Anchovies? Pineapple? Ham?

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I think for the dry biscuity side of survival after the government disaster, marine supplies like these would serve well. Will last 4 years. Just need to keep away rodents.

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The Government "Be Ready" campaign urges us to stockpile tinned food that doesn’t require heating. Apparently this includes baked beans. But what other tinned food would you like to eat cold? Anchovies? Pineapple? Ham?

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

@carrotmuseum Often they buy chilled or frozen food which will spoil after a couple of days without electricity, especially if it can't be cooked. The idea is to have a reserve, to be eaten if no emergency arrives before its storage date expires.

[Christian Rutherford @Impitoyable]

The publishing history of these uniform French editions is interesting: they’re not really paperbacks; they’re actually unbound. What you would do was buy the book in this form from your bookseller and take it to your bookbinder to be prepared for your library. 1/2

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

@Impitoyable Yes, you're quite right. It's really how books were sold in England before the 19th-century fashion for cloth covered boards. In the 18th century books would be advertised "in sheets", ready to be folded, cut and bound.

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@rjoyce533 Quite a feast. A reward for a hospitable attitude.

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@dennissewell Good idea. But no bread and butter, unless they have tinned bread.

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@gerrylynch You'd have to bloody careful not to kill yourself with carbon monoxide.

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@GreenfordBlog Like these?
Might be an acquired taste.

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@ArmchairBard But the supposition is that if anything's been nuked it's us and the content of the tin must be consumed cold.

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They might be able to get home by train from Oslo via Brussels and London.

[Aviation News UK @AviationNews_UK]

You've really got to feel for these passengers and crew.

Unable to land at Edinburgh and now diverting to Oslo.

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@patrickxwest Oh, yes, it seems it was. A committee in 2013 recommended a return to GMT but nothing happened.

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Most of Spain, except Barcelona, is west of the Greenwich Meridian. It should be on GMT like Portugal.

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Tonight, most European countries will turn their clocks back one hour.

Should Europe abolish the twice-yearly clock changes or keep them?

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It's an interesting cultural aspect of aesthetics. Spanish books, like French ones, used to be issued in paper wrappers. Some were then bound in boards. British books of the same age, before paperbacks came in, were published as hardbacks, which look to us more finished.

[Librófilos™ @librofilos]

La belleza de los libros

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This storm's name, Boelo, is the same Germanic word meaning "bold" as the -bald element in Archibald. It's the bit missing in the name Archie, as in the Duke of Sussex’s son Prince Archie.

[Hill Top Farm @hilltopfarmgirl]

Belties in Ribblesdale with Pen-y-Gent in cloud 💚

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No wonder the street is flooded.

[Intrecci Veneziani @IntrecciVE]

Pluviale grondante #veneziagram #igersvenezia #veneziadavivere #intrecciveneziani #venice

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Old houses on the corner of Hill Church Street (formerly Church Street) and Town Road (formerly High Street) in Hanley, Staffordshire. If you think they look nothing special, you should see most of the nearby buildings.

[Real Counties @RealCounties]

Greenwich is a London borough, but that doesn't mean it’s ceased to be part of a geographic county.

Greenwich is still geographically in Kent.

Inclusion in Greater London in 1965 changed Greenwich’s local-government arrangements, not its county geography.

Being part of London and belonging to a historic county aren't mutually exclusive. Both are true today!