Used to perform with a popular close-harmony quartet. Rational Socialist. Rejoiner. Cooking, reading, politics, art, quiet pubs… @maxjthinks.bsky.social
"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."
Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.
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#OnThisDay 180 years ago The Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway opened between Brighton and Lewes including the graceful London Road Viaduct in Brighton. It can be fully appreciated in this 1848 John Wilson Carmichael painting, before development surrounded it @RailwayMuseum
Tomorrow on The Forgotten War Podcast, we swoop into one of WWII’s most hazardous airborne operations: The Hump Airlift. Jack and Rob are joined by Caroline Alexander, author of Skies of Thunder, to dissect this massive, life-defying Allied logistical marvel. Listen in tomorrow! #WWII #History #TheHump
Brian Clough, who loved cricket, bowling at Lord's in a charity match in front of 8000 spectators in August 1975. Clough took 2 for 45 dismissing the great cricketing pair of Geoff Boycott and, er, Clement Freud. With the bat he scored 13. A lover of cricket, he once said he would have prefer to make a Test century at Lord's than to have scored a hat-trick at Wembley
I still get plenty of people ask me how I know what the colours are supposed to be in the photos I share, even though I write "This is not colourised" on every post. One just has to resign oneself to the realisation that a lot of dumb people use social media, and you've just got to hope that some bright ones see your posts as well, just to balance it out.