Is it possible to have fireworks that are beautiful and spectacular but don’t bang?
Asking for my dog and sanity, 3 weeks after Diwali and 4 days after Bonfire Night.
Asking for my dog and sanity, 3 weeks after Diwali and 4 days after Bonfire Night.
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Is it possible to have fireworks that are beautiful and spectacular but don’t bang?
Asking for my dog and sanity, 3 weeks after Diwali and 4 days after Bonfire Night.
Asking for my dog and sanity, 3 weeks after Diwali and 4 days after Bonfire Night.
So annoyed. 16 Lovers Lane is exactly the music 15 year old me loved. I knew the band & taped the singles so why on earth did I never listen to the album until now? These songs should have been living in my head for the last 37 years.
1988 was the best year for music as it was the year I turned 16.
1988 was the best year for music as it was the year I turned 16.
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So annoyed. 16 Lovers Lane is exactly the music 15 year old me loved. I knew the band & taped the singles so why on earth did I never listen to the album until now? These songs should have been living in my head for the last 37 years.
1988 was the best year for music as it was the year I turned 16.
1988 was the best year for music as it was the year I turned 16.
Email from EasyJet inviting me to check in. Any guesses which airport they, or presumably their AI, are calling London North?
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Email from EasyJet inviting me to check in. Any guesses which airport they, or presumably their AI, are calling London North?
I’m not usually much of a hay fever sufferer, but having just ran from Highgate to Mayfair - and back! - on this blustery late spring day, I am sad to add the London Plane tree to noisy fireworks on the list of things that @london.gov.uk must ban!
May 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I’m not usually much of a hay fever sufferer, but having just ran from Highgate to Mayfair - and back! - on this blustery late spring day, I am sad to add the London Plane tree to noisy fireworks on the list of things that @london.gov.uk must ban!
I am pledging £50 to charity if Crystal Palace score more goals in the Cup Final than the UK Eurovision entry gets points tonight. Fully expecting to be paying up.
May 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I am pledging £50 to charity if Crystal Palace score more goals in the Cup Final than the UK Eurovision entry gets points tonight. Fully expecting to be paying up.
Wichita Line and Length Man
March 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wichita Line and Length Man
This, by @rcka.co.uk for @camdencouncil.bsky.social in my area (a conservation area), shows how a bit more density shouldn’t be feared.
Space is a nice cut-through, replacing awful unsafe alley.
Flats lived in by refugees.
Hope all community uses return soon.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Space is a nice cut-through, replacing awful unsafe alley.
Flats lived in by refugees.
Hope all community uses return soon.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Highgate Newtown Community Centre review – if you’re looking for design that humanises, here it is
An old Territorial Army drill hall has been transformed into an inspiring mixed-used development for local people that’s more than the sum of its parts
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This, by @rcka.co.uk for @camdencouncil.bsky.social in my area (a conservation area), shows how a bit more density shouldn’t be feared.
Space is a nice cut-through, replacing awful unsafe alley.
Flats lived in by refugees.
Hope all community uses return soon.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Space is a nice cut-through, replacing awful unsafe alley.
Flats lived in by refugees.
Hope all community uses return soon.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I imagine the built environment people still on Twitter are excited about this.
January 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I imagine the built environment people still on Twitter are excited about this.
It’s going to be a big year for planning and Matthew Pennycook is now on here : @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s going to be a big year for planning and Matthew Pennycook is now on here : @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
Today’s Sunday Worship was quite something to wake up to. Carols from the village pubs around Sheffield. Carols never sounded so good. Some of them being performed by Kate Rusby and Jon Boden (I missed them being mentioned if it was) helped. What a tradition!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Carols for the Christ Child: Village Carols
A celebration of the carolling tradition based in pubs in the villages around Sheffield.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Today’s Sunday Worship was quite something to wake up to. Carols from the village pubs around Sheffield. Carols never sounded so good. Some of them being performed by Kate Rusby and Jon Boden (I missed them being mentioned if it was) helped. What a tradition!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I have a passoin for it
![Shop sign saying Royal Fashoin [sic]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7lkicvpb5ar2hmwt6axf5qh4/bafkreigmixwzrxpiuhdew6uu7rciefeh5qyoestnyvnx5nwi7icrvaxcyy@jpeg)
December 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I have a passoin for it
Alongside what politicians say about it on the radio, I have learnt to take articles about what is going to be in imminent planning reforms with a huge pinch of salt. But I hope this plan to take another look at the green belt is true.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Alongside what politicians say about it on the radio, I have learnt to take articles about what is going to be in imminent planning reforms with a huge pinch of salt. But I hope this plan to take another look at the green belt is true.
Reposted by Ben Castell
Brilliant framing by @20splenty.bsky.social.
December 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Brilliant framing by @20splenty.bsky.social.
Planning news from this time last year.
Nothing has changed but then everything has.
Nothing has changed but then everything has.
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Planning news from this time last year.
Nothing has changed but then everything has.
Nothing has changed but then everything has.
Some of my friends were pleased when their kids started uni in cities with good football watching opportunities.
Not sure how many other parents were pleased theirs got into Cambridge because it means more excuses to get to the Abbey Stadium.
Not sure how many other parents were pleased theirs got into Cambridge because it means more excuses to get to the Abbey Stadium.
November 26, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Some of my friends were pleased when their kids started uni in cities with good football watching opportunities.
Not sure how many other parents were pleased theirs got into Cambridge because it means more excuses to get to the Abbey Stadium.
Not sure how many other parents were pleased theirs got into Cambridge because it means more excuses to get to the Abbey Stadium.
I started my career just as Labour came to power in 1997. In that time, no other politician has had anywhere near the positive influence on planning and regeneration (remember that?) as John Prescott.
November 21, 2024 at 7:36 AM
I started my career just as Labour came to power in 1997. In that time, no other politician has had anywhere near the positive influence on planning and regeneration (remember that?) as John Prescott.
Reposted by Ben Castell
Planning sometimes needs to be in the national interest even if the significant effects are local. Democracy is not removed in these instances. The pendulum swings to central govt & parliament, not local govt. Citizens can still have a role, making the case for new local services & good design
In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution | Polly Toynbee
In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution | Polly Toynbee
If it wants to build 1.5m homes, the government will sometimes need to be brave enough to reject local feeling – as it has done in Swale
Watch what happens in Swale, as it’s a tale that will be repeated often in the next few years. Here in Kent is a test…
dlvr.it
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Planning sometimes needs to be in the national interest even if the significant effects are local. Democracy is not removed in these instances. The pendulum swings to central govt & parliament, not local govt. Citizens can still have a role, making the case for new local services & good design
The inside story of the very short-lived, could-have-been-good Office for Place. Wonder if the opinion that its death is strange is provably popular.
thecritic.co.uk/the-strange-...
thecritic.co.uk/the-strange-...
The strange death of the Office for Place | Nicholas Boys Smith | The Critic Magazine
A decade ago, I quit my well-paid, well-pensioned, high-status job to set up a social enterprise in my dining room with no income, few pertinent connections and no relevant professional experience or…
thecritic.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM
The inside story of the very short-lived, could-have-been-good Office for Place. Wonder if the opinion that its death is strange is provably popular.
thecritic.co.uk/the-strange-...
thecritic.co.uk/the-strange-...
Here’s what less concrete looks like. From AJ.
November 13, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Here’s what less concrete looks like. From AJ.
Farewell Office for Place.
Your remit was too narrow and your voice far too much that of a single person with a particular agenda.
You will be little-mourned amongst practitioners.
You are a victim of tensions between skilled civil servants and a once-influential advisor. The right side won.
Your remit was too narrow and your voice far too much that of a single person with a particular agenda.
You will be little-mourned amongst practitioners.
You are a victim of tensions between skilled civil servants and a once-influential advisor. The right side won.
November 12, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Farewell Office for Place.
Your remit was too narrow and your voice far too much that of a single person with a particular agenda.
You will be little-mourned amongst practitioners.
You are a victim of tensions between skilled civil servants and a once-influential advisor. The right side won.
Your remit was too narrow and your voice far too much that of a single person with a particular agenda.
You will be little-mourned amongst practitioners.
You are a victim of tensions between skilled civil servants and a once-influential advisor. The right side won.
Interesting company. What does this photo my wife has sent from Hong Kong say about where the Chinese state positions Trump in the fight against Western democracy?
October 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Interesting company. What does this photo my wife has sent from Hong Kong say about where the Chinese state positions Trump in the fight against Western democracy?
Oh wow, 2 hours of Kirsty on BBC2 tonight. Is it only in our house that Kirsty is one of those artists known by only their first name?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Kirsty MacColl: The Boxed Set
Kirsty MacColl's last television concert, filmed in Glasgow in March 2000.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Oh wow, 2 hours of Kirsty on BBC2 tonight. Is it only in our house that Kirsty is one of those artists known by only their first name?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...