Chris King
@chrisfk.bsky.social
Double nationalité franco-britannique, universitaire en droit, amateur d'art et de musique. Résident de la République Populaire de Stirchley (Birmingham) et du Haut-Limousin. Pas de DMs SVP.
Interesting pre-sunset orange glowing sky over Stirchley.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Interesting pre-sunset orange glowing sky over Stirchley.
'Automatic braking' has caused at least one death (likely more than one).
![Excerpt from article about road accidents caused by cars' automatic braking system activating unexpectedly. It says: 'Another driver, Aurelie Tormos, who responded to the call out saw a friend travelling with her die after the brakes of her vehicle activated when driving at high speed on a motorway.
Ms Tormos was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
"We cannot change the past, it will not bring [my friend] back. However we can allow her accident to be counted as a technical defect and not wait until there are [several] deaths before reacting." she said to FranceInfo.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:76xxplg5wa2dmwl6szgiuvs4/bafkreiggp5nonmjvxzujetzj7eufe2urpnohh5lvfycmgudegmzli4w4ui@jpeg)
October 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
'Automatic braking' has caused at least one death (likely more than one).
Morning all. Sorry to hear that it's a grey one where some of you are. Quite early still, of course, but looking promising here in Haute-Vienne after cloudy and chilly day yesterday. Off across the departmental border into Creuse later to buy a heated towel rail. Can barely contain my excitement!
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Morning all. Sorry to hear that it's a grey one where some of you are. Quite early still, of course, but looking promising here in Haute-Vienne after cloudy and chilly day yesterday. Off across the departmental border into Creuse later to buy a heated towel rail. Can barely contain my excitement!
Excited to try a new (to us) (seasonal?) flavour.
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Excited to try a new (to us) (seasonal?) flavour.
This morning's birds, according to our Merlin app, heard from our bedroom window.
September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This morning's birds, according to our Merlin app, heard from our bedroom window.
Update: the fog is starting to burn off. View over foggy fields from end of the garden.
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Update: the fog is starting to burn off. View over foggy fields from end of the garden.
Very foggy here in rural Haute-Vienne. We normally have a lovely view out over the fields in the gap between the cherry tree on the left in the pic and the ivy-clad ruin on the right, but just a grey wall there this a. m. Today and tomorrow due to be dry. 27C forecast for tomorrow!
September 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Very foggy here in rural Haute-Vienne. We normally have a lovely view out over the fields in the gap between the cherry tree on the left in the pic and the ivy-clad ruin on the right, but just a grey wall there this a. m. Today and tomorrow due to be dry. 27C forecast for tomorrow!
I am pleased to report that our Brets drought is over, thanks to a 22km round trip to our equal nearest town that has a choice of supermarkets. Pic shows two-thirds of our haul - sauveur 'Falafels à la Libanaise' had already been scoffed before the photo was taken.
September 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I am pleased to report that our Brets drought is over, thanks to a 22km round trip to our equal nearest town that has a choice of supermarkets. Pic shows two-thirds of our haul - sauveur 'Falafels à la Libanaise' had already been scoffed before the photo was taken.
Not quite as pretty (or anywhere near such good photos) but herewith Red Underwing and Copper Underwing in our Birmingham garden. #Moths
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Not quite as pretty (or anywhere near such good photos) but herewith Red Underwing and Copper Underwing in our Birmingham garden. #Moths
BBC Weather website stubbornly continuing to insist that local weather is currently dry with a 0% chance of rain. It is in fact currently raining here.
August 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
BBC Weather website stubbornly continuing to insist that local weather is currently dry with a 0% chance of rain. It is in fact currently raining here.
(1) Schnorkie (no flash) iooking cute, (2) Seconds later, Schnorkie (with flash) looking demonic.
August 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
(1) Schnorkie (no flash) iooking cute, (2) Seconds later, Schnorkie (with flash) looking demonic.
Post a castle if you see this.
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Post a castle if you see this.
In honour of Ystradgynlais and of Josef Herman, a Polish Jewish emigre artist who came to Ystradgynlais for a short sketching trip and loved it so much he stayed for years.
June 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In honour of Ystradgynlais and of Josef Herman, a Polish Jewish emigre artist who came to Ystradgynlais for a short sketching trip and loved it so much he stayed for years.
This is what's going through their heads.
![On left, diagram showing light refraction through water and on right, associated mathematical formula: n = c/v. n[subscript 1]sin0[subscript 1] = n[subscript2]sin0[subscript 2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:76xxplg5wa2dmwl6szgiuvs4/bafkreigwc2ji6dvynmorngu7nqwdca7lwqt6iaobrux6r3yl2fe6erb2h4@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is what's going through their heads.
![A quote from James Joyce's Ulysses that reads: I’m talking about injustice, says Bloom. Right, says John Wyse. Stand up to it then with force like men […] But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life. What? says Alf. Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:76xxplg5wa2dmwl6szgiuvs4/bafkreibhhx3ncdfzmzxnj5x7zo5oybyhvuc5uq3bkbmenckh2s4niynpkq@jpeg)
And don't even dream of going to Limousin. Terrible place.
June 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
And don't even dream of going to Limousin. Terrible place.
King Don vs. Godz-elon.
June 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
King Don vs. Godz-elon.
And our cat loves cheese, so we can celebrate both days by giving her a little bit of cheese and then giving her a hug.
June 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
And our cat loves cheese, so we can celebrate both days by giving her a little bit of cheese and then giving her a hug.
My lockscreen on my work laptop has been stuck for nearly 4 months. It's telling me today's temperature is 7C (it's actually 23C right now), that sunset will be at 16:26 today (it'll actually be at 20:50) and that on this day in 1950 the Great Brinks Robbery took place (it actually did so 17 Jan).
May 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My lockscreen on my work laptop has been stuck for nearly 4 months. It's telling me today's temperature is 7C (it's actually 23C right now), that sunset will be at 16:26 today (it'll actually be at 20:50) and that on this day in 1950 the Great Brinks Robbery took place (it actually did so 17 Jan).
VvG's response to at by others/ from other cultures/periods that he admired was first to study that art by faithfully copying it, as here, and then to combine those other artists' techniques with his own style, as in 'Rain, Auvers' (1890), one of his very last paintings before his tragic death.
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
VvG's response to at by others/ from other cultures/periods that he admired was first to study that art by faithfully copying it, as here, and then to combine those other artists' techniques with his own style, as in 'Rain, Auvers' (1890), one of his very last paintings before his tragic death.
Having studied medieval art at uni, I was aware of medieval wall paintings, but not of subsequent terends in wall paintings, until I visited the Chateau de Rochechouart last year. Pic is from the Hercules room there. Same period. Same penchant for grisaille, but humans rather than animals + foliage.
April 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Having studied medieval art at uni, I was aware of medieval wall paintings, but not of subsequent terends in wall paintings, until I visited the Chateau de Rochechouart last year. Pic is from the Hercules room there. Same period. Same penchant for grisaille, but humans rather than animals + foliage.
We often get small birds crashing into the windows of our 'sun room' (left in pic) in our French house. They can see in through the windows on one side straight through and out through the windows on the other side, but, but being unable to see the glass, they think they can fly straight through.
March 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We often get small birds crashing into the windows of our 'sun room' (left in pic) in our French house. They can see in through the windows on one side straight through and out through the windows on the other side, but, but being unable to see the glass, they think they can fly straight through.