F Macdonald-Smith

Retired university admin, Cambridge. House guide at David Parr House. Reading, films, tv, Radio 4, language learning.

[F Macdonald-Smith @felicityms]

🎉 Happy Birthday, David Parr! 🎉

Today marks 170 years since the birth of the Victorian decorative artist behind the extraordinary interiors of David Parr House. In this photo, David stands next to his wife Mary Jane in the back garden of 186 Gwydir Street. 

@davidparrhouse

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Birmingham could easily have demolished the last Back to Backs for a tower. But that would have been really, really stupid. They're now a huge tourist attraction.

We risk doing the same to Station Street, The Electric & The Crown. It would be monumentally stupid long term.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏😊
To make it worth sharing, here's a proud, plump Puffin checking me out! 😍😁🐦
Thank you very much!❤️

[F Macdonald-Smith @felicityms]

@RevRichardColes The first LP my parents bought for their new record player in the 1960s was Mrs Mills.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's 'The Watcher'... a Barn Owl on the Somerset Levels. 😍🦉
Thank you very much! 😊🐦

[St John's College Access & Outreach @sjc_access]

📞 Calling all Year 12s!

You can now sign up for our Maths & Computer Science Study day taking place on March 6th! Meet our tutors, chat to our students and learn all about life at the University!

🔗 Sign up via the link in our bio

@oxoutreach

[Cambridge Peregrines @camperegrines]

Very pleased to find a female perched on a King’s chapel spire adjacent to where the male was also perched. The condition of the coloured ring on her left leg suggests it’s TVH from Wakefield but couldn’t 100% confirm it’s her. She eventually flew to St John’s chapel.

[F Macdonald-Smith @felicityms]

@jennyharicot If you haven’t read Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series, they might suit. 15 books, set mostly in North Norfolk, with side trips to Walsingham, Cambridge, etc. Worth reading in order, bc although a different crime in each one, there are also ongoing relationships btw characters.

[Davidfrombarnet @DavidfromBarnet]

Yeah, go on Lillian...pimp Alice out to get the inside track on equine spas.!! #thearchers

[Helen Walmsley-J @TheVintageYear]

And here's Jakob, reluctantly dressed as Maximus Decimus Meridius, heading for a 'Bridget Jones Bunny' moment.
#TheArchers

[Mill Road Winter Fair @MillRoadFair]

Mill Road Winter Fair is back on Sat 2nd Dec! And we've got tons of fabulous entertainment lined up for you! Check out all the fun of the Winter Fair at our website: https://t.co/T7ekkbzlr0 #mrwf #mrwf23 #Cambridge #MillRoad

[Corpus Christi @CorpusCambridge]

Some fine architectural carving by the Chaplain @MattBullimore #AllHallowsEve 🎃⛪️

[F Macdonald-Smith @felicityms]

@OurCofELike @thevicarswife @CofEWorcester Is the picture the Trumpington Cross? Looks very similar.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

This is not a great look for the party of free speech. I’ve seen heckling in my time and I am not sure this meets the threshold

[Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge]

As Rishi says, 30mph is a good British speed in that it embodies the good old fashioned British sense of fair play and healthy competition. Maybe the car will come out on top or maybe the cycling child will. At 20mph the child will usually live, which seems unfair on the car. 🇬🇧

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

GBNews was the broadcast embodiment of Brexit. That’s why @afneil helmed it & why *anyone* who understood Brexit knew it would descend in to bigotry, racism, bogus victimhood & conspiracies. As with Brexit, there is no pleasure in being proved completely right about everything.

[Anna Lapwood @annalapwood]

I didn’t say either of these things, and I am extremely disappointed that the @thetimes implied I did. Newspapers sometimes write inflammatory headlines that don’t correspond with the content of the article or the views of its subject.