When there's one tree in the middle of your construction site that needs protecting 🌳😅
Some serious engineering taking place over at Istanbul's Golden Horn Development.
🎥 Ahmet Faruk Sarıkoç
This is one of the most famous paintings in the world, yet few people know the story of the woman holding the parasol…
It was painted by Claude Monet in 1875, and she was his wife, Camille, out for a walk with their young son Jean near their home in Argenteuil, just outside Paris. Monet painted them outdoors on a windy day, from below, so that Camille stands against the sky, her veil and dress caught by the wind, looking down at us as if we had just called her name.
It feels less like a moment a husband didn’t want to forget.
Four years later, Camille was gone. After a long illness, she died in September 1879, at just 32. Five days before the end, a priest blessed the marriage she and Monet had made in a simple civil ceremony nine years earlier. And there, at her bedside, the artist did the only thing he knew how to do: he painted her one last time. Years later, he confessed that even then, sitting beside her, he caught himself studying the colors that death was leaving on her face, a moment he never managed to forget.
By then, she had appeared in some fifty of his paintings: in a green silk dress at nineteen, standing at a window, walking through the poppies with their little boy. Without ever meaning to, he had painted the story of her whole life with him.
Monet lived almost fifty more years, but on this canvas it will always be that summer afternoon, with Camille turning to look at him in the wind…
This is hilarious because Verian don’t even complete their report until Tuesday morning before each poll, so the data isn’t even compiled yet. But good try for some views I guess
🇬🇧 What process does the UK Tea and Infusions Association recommend for making tea with a teabag in a mug?
1. Water, milk, bag in, bag out
2. Milk, bag in, water, bag out
3. Bag in, water, milk, bag out
4. Bag in, water, bag out, milk
It's the @RAFBBMF dinner at the wonderful, historic @PetwoodHotel this evening. Looking forward to catching up with old friends & honouring the service & sacrifice of the wartime generation.
Enrolment ends/VOTING OPENS October 25, 2026 in Aotearoa NZ Actual Election Day is November 7. @chrisluxonmp deliberately cut off enrolment on 25/10 so as to suppress votes from the Left! BUT YOU CAN VOTE NOW UP TO ELECTION DAY. GO VOTE Get rid of @chrisluxonmp 's #FilthyFew
Russell Cyril James Stone ONZM
1923 – 2026
Vale Emeritus Professor Stone of @AucklandUni an urban historian of his home city of Auckland https://t.co/wkpi4wXkv7 and also the last of our generation of NZ uni historians who served in the Second World War. https://t.co/SzdWUL092U