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Typical isn't it, it's not International Potato Day until May, but the shops are already full of potatoes
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February 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Typical isn't it, it's not International Potato Day until May, but the shops are already full of potatoes
The splendid website London Pavement Geology (www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk) has been extended across the UK and tells you where to find treasures hidden in plain sight. Here are some London fossils from the LSE and Somerset House.
February 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
The splendid website London Pavement Geology (www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk) has been extended across the UK and tells you where to find treasures hidden in plain sight. Here are some London fossils from the LSE and Somerset House.
Tiled mural depicting the penicillin molecule, under the Westway near St Mary's Hospital where Fleming made his discovery.
January 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Tiled mural depicting the penicillin molecule, under the Westway near St Mary's Hospital where Fleming made his discovery.
Alfred Buckham, Edinburgh 1920
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Alfred Buckham, Edinburgh 1920
Happy Beethoven's Birthday everyone
December 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Happy Beethoven's Birthday everyone
This desert is so long, it can take a lifetime to go from one end to the other, and a childhood to cross it at its narrowest point.
- Ibn Khaldun
- Ibn Khaldun
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This desert is so long, it can take a lifetime to go from one end to the other, and a childhood to cross it at its narrowest point.
- Ibn Khaldun
- Ibn Khaldun
Owl of the day: from Bosch's The Wayfarer
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Owl of the day: from Bosch's The Wayfarer
And today, thinking about what my life has been, I feel like some sort of animal that’s being carried in a basket under a curved arm between two suburban train stations . . . these baskets usually have two lids, like half ovals, that lift up at one end or the other should the animal squirm . . .
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
And today, thinking about what my life has been, I feel like some sort of animal that’s being carried in a basket under a curved arm between two suburban train stations . . . these baskets usually have two lids, like half ovals, that lift up at one end or the other should the animal squirm . . .
Sand of the Day: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley, California.
Stovepipe Wells sand is brutal, cyclopean. I can barely fit it into my lens.
Stovepipe Wells sand is brutal, cyclopean. I can barely fit it into my lens.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sand of the Day: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley, California.
Stovepipe Wells sand is brutal, cyclopean. I can barely fit it into my lens.
Stovepipe Wells sand is brutal, cyclopean. I can barely fit it into my lens.
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We enter it. We come.
Our bodies cannot scale heaven except in a fume of burnt petrol.
As lords that are expected. Yet there is a silent joy in our arrival.
Years and years.
Long arpeggios of chafing wires.
The concentration of one's body in entering a loop.
- T.E. Lawrence
Our bodies cannot scale heaven except in a fume of burnt petrol.
As lords that are expected. Yet there is a silent joy in our arrival.
Years and years.
Long arpeggios of chafing wires.
The concentration of one's body in entering a loop.
- T.E. Lawrence
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We enter it. We come.
Our bodies cannot scale heaven except in a fume of burnt petrol.
As lords that are expected. Yet there is a silent joy in our arrival.
Years and years.
Long arpeggios of chafing wires.
The concentration of one's body in entering a loop.
- T.E. Lawrence
Our bodies cannot scale heaven except in a fume of burnt petrol.
As lords that are expected. Yet there is a silent joy in our arrival.
Years and years.
Long arpeggios of chafing wires.
The concentration of one's body in entering a loop.
- T.E. Lawrence
Sand of the Day: Thames foreshore nr. Marigold Alley, London. Lots of lovely quartz with a rich mix of other stones.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Sand of the Day: Thames foreshore nr. Marigold Alley, London. Lots of lovely quartz with a rich mix of other stones.
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 Thomas Browne, 𝘜𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭
- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 Thomas Browne, 𝘜𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 Thomas Browne, 𝘜𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭
- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 Thomas Browne, 𝘜𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭
Epstein's work is no better than pornography.
- Walter Sickert
- Walter Sickert
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Epstein's work is no better than pornography.
- Walter Sickert
- Walter Sickert
When Babylon has fallen, what then? What shards and fragments shall we rescue from its ruins, and what new temples shall we make from them? When evil has evaporated, what then shall we have to fight against? The world may seem an endless afternoon . . .
- Fernando Pessoa
- Fernando Pessoa
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
When Babylon has fallen, what then? What shards and fragments shall we rescue from its ruins, and what new temples shall we make from them? When evil has evaporated, what then shall we have to fight against? The world may seem an endless afternoon . . .
- Fernando Pessoa
- Fernando Pessoa
"Old Cader [Idris] is a grand fellow, and shows himself off perfectly with every changing light."
- Darwin
- Darwin
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Old Cader [Idris] is a grand fellow, and shows himself off perfectly with every changing light."
- Darwin
- Darwin
Cerrig Arthur, above the Mawddach Valley, Gwynedd. Diffwys in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Cerrig Arthur, above the Mawddach Valley, Gwynedd. Diffwys in the background.
The iron gatepost is the last remaining relic of the Pyrgo estate, Havering, Essex, where Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor spent a large part of their childhoods, an easy day's ride from London.
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The iron gatepost is the last remaining relic of the Pyrgo estate, Havering, Essex, where Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor spent a large part of their childhoods, an easy day's ride from London.