Very sad to hear that Alex Younger ex head of MI6 has died. He had a superb mind, and also a great sense of humour, sufficient to call his tumour “Putin.” A calm, wise and hugely intelligent voice has been silenced and he will be missed by many.
@JoyceCarolOates I remember either Twin Peaks or Silence of the Lambs has a scene where they find a body in the river and do that with the Vicks rub. That always stuck with me.
@rodrig39386@bugsandfishes I;ve got a posh Yorkshire accent. No one quite knows where to put me lol But my Dad was a soldier then council clerk and my mum sewed clothes. But I speak like a news reader :)
Aerospace photographer John Winkopp captured epic footage of a Starlink rocket against the Sun.
In the video, a SpaceX rocket is seen literally crossing the solar disk during its ascent.
Between 1856 and 1859, Emily Mary Madden, then aged eight to eleven, dedicated a small notebook to her family's cat, Mouton.
The strokes are clearly a child's, but the eyes, whiskers, fur, and the dark hatching on the tail are carefully detailed.
Across the pages, Mouton encounters an elephant, appears before the queen, rides a rooster, tangles with mice, and takes up arms against a spider.
Mouton was actually a French tomcat given to Emily's father, Sir Frederic Madden, by a bookseller in 1854. Frederic was a distinguished paleographer and librarian who worked with manuscripts at the British Museum.