David Shepherd
@dms59.bsky.social
Alienated by the scent of Musk. Flaneur, haunter of Art Galleries, love watching paint dry in Arthouse films, countryside conservationist, Birkbeck History of Ideas MA, progressive, radical, European.
A newly built rabbit hutch can be yours for just £920K in Godalming. How can anybody young afford to live here.
September 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
A newly built rabbit hutch can be yours for just £920K in Godalming. How can anybody young afford to live here.
Today is the Feast of St James. Here he is in a church in Tavira near Faro, wearing what looks like a pirate hat.
Ora pro nobis!
Ora pro nobis!
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today is the Feast of St James. Here he is in a church in Tavira near Faro, wearing what looks like a pirate hat.
Ora pro nobis!
Ora pro nobis!
Reminded of the wooden temporary grave markers now in the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral, like this one. Their fragility conveys the tragic waste of life in WWI.
July 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Reminded of the wooden temporary grave markers now in the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral, like this one. Their fragility conveys the tragic waste of life in WWI.
It’s not yet 06.30 and I’m reading some great articles in @theguardian.com. One about a gangster granny and the other featuring people and their collection of sex toys. I now need coffee to stop me conflating the two.
July 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s not yet 06.30 and I’m reading some great articles in @theguardian.com. One about a gangster granny and the other featuring people and their collection of sex toys. I now need coffee to stop me conflating the two.
The beach at Tavira, Algarve looking like a Rothko painting.
June 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The beach at Tavira, Algarve looking like a Rothko painting.
The news is so depressing it’s best to stick to the Daily Star!
May 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The news is so depressing it’s best to stick to the Daily Star!
March 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m old enough to not quite like the original as an innovation from the lion and wheel variants but yes I agree.
March 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’m old enough to not quite like the original as an innovation from the lion and wheel variants but yes I agree.
Interesting that the Loading Gauge isn’t the problem. The only UK double deck train wasn’t very successful because it was too cramped.
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Interesting that the Loading Gauge isn’t the problem. The only UK double deck train wasn’t very successful because it was too cramped.
I went there in 2011. I guess it’s gone now.
February 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I went there in 2011. I guess it’s gone now.
Amesbury, one of Cooper’s “thugs”? Good juxtaposition from the BBC.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Amesbury, one of Cooper’s “thugs”? Good juxtaposition from the BBC.
Afissos 2015 when Grexit was feared and before Brexit was a thing!
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Afissos 2015 when Grexit was feared and before Brexit was a thing!
Good to see water meadows in #Godalming doing what they are meant to do, taking flood water from the River Wey.
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Good to see water meadows in #Godalming doing what they are meant to do, taking flood water from the River Wey.
-1C with brilliant sunshine, so a great morning to run up and down 101m of hills, wrapped up against the frost like an extra from a Scandi Noir, though I didn’t find any bodies.
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
-1C with brilliant sunshine, so a great morning to run up and down 101m of hills, wrapped up against the frost like an extra from a Scandi Noir, though I didn’t find any bodies.
I met him in Dublin
December 31, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I met him in Dublin
I see I’m about to join the 8%! I guess it keeps me young!
December 5, 2024 at 12:22 PM
I see I’m about to join the 8%! I guess it keeps me young!
Thought the Holy Father had taken up cricket when I saw this BBC headline!
December 4, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Thought the Holy Father had taken up cricket when I saw this BBC headline!
The LT depot had a bus from my childhood which made feel old although the bus seemed old to me back then.
December 1, 2024 at 9:57 PM
The LT depot had a bus from my childhood which made feel old although the bus seemed old to me back then.
Waited patiently for it to stop raining but in between leaving flat and reaching front porch it started again so I got soaked!
December 1, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Waited patiently for it to stop raining but in between leaving flat and reaching front porch it started again so I got soaked!
You’ve not been watching this by any chance? Rebecca Hall has not been right since.
November 24, 2024 at 5:15 PM
You’ve not been watching this by any chance? Rebecca Hall has not been right since.
Here’s another one on the Grand Union Canal tow path near Rickmansworth.
November 14, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Here’s another one on the Grand Union Canal tow path near Rickmansworth.
Just finished Alan Hollinghurst’s ’Our Evenings’. At first it seems a little disjointed but by the end comes the realisation that it is part of a skilful and deliberate literary recreation of a found and edited memoir. A poignant reflection on, memory, aging and loss.
October 22, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Just finished Alan Hollinghurst’s ’Our Evenings’. At first it seems a little disjointed but by the end comes the realisation that it is part of a skilful and deliberate literary recreation of a found and edited memoir. A poignant reflection on, memory, aging and loss.
A wild day ahead in Guildford. BBC playing safe with forecast unlike 1987.
October 10, 2024 at 6:04 AM
A wild day ahead in Guildford. BBC playing safe with forecast unlike 1987.
Enjoying Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ which has a new depth that comes with accumulated years, despite a deceased character being the same age as me. Each chapter has such an intensity that I have to pause before beginning the next. Recommend.
October 5, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Enjoying Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ which has a new depth that comes with accumulated years, despite a deceased character being the same age as me. Each chapter has such an intensity that I have to pause before beginning the next. Recommend.