🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

This tickled me the other day. Peregrine Falcons have been nesting in tower of University of Glasgow for years. They are known as Bonnie and Clyde and have staff cards! Probably lose them less often than l do. Think it was Graeme K who brought this to my attention.

The height of fashion 🥳

Edgy indeed. Most would’ve chosen a safer target like Campbell-Bannerman

History is brutal

I don’t get why steel is suddenly so important when there hasn’t been anything about it on Netflix

A Georgian facade next to the cathedral in Durham. The lopsided nature of the facade is probably a sign that there is an older building behind the exterior

One of my favourite mad books. I mean Jesus, yes, sure, we all know he was here. One can feel it. But Paul?! That’s seriously wild.

Antique Armenian Bible covers.

Robert Graves: some coincidences are more-than-coincidences. Don’t believe me? Well, let me tell a story about publishing this crazy book I wrote:

I loved reading these books so much last year that all my reading this year has been the books in their bibliography

“and soon she was swinging with Walter…”

We are cavaliers and aesthetes, not logicians

Joke stolen from George Savile Marquess of Halifax. It was good when he made it, in the 1680s. (Dante solecism has already been discussed)

14 Apr 1598: Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of #Ireland is entered into the Stationers' Register #otd, it was not published till 1633 (in #Dublin) but circulated widely in manuscript before that (This Ms image is courtesy of Mark Empey)

Novel but I don’t think at all workable! Do suspect Harry would have outperformed Dick by miles though

If the Greens get their way, people will soon be smuggling foie gras into the country by hiding it in cocaine.

I was born in 1929 in Dusseldorf, Germany.