Happy Birthday Engels!
28th November

"The significant characteristic of monogamous marriage was its transformation of the nuclear family into the basic economic unit of society, within which a woman and her children became dependent upon an individual man."
#birthday #Engels #family

The Uzbek Persimmon harvest in Soviet times. Persimmon was a valuable part of Soviet agricultural efforts, contributing to food diversity and nutrition. #Uzbekistan #Agriculture #Persimmons #SovietHistory #khiva

On this day in 1937 Shostakovich 5th symphony premiered in Leningrad. The standing ovation lasted an hour apparently.

Nigel Fromage donned fancy dress at yesterday's Farmer's protest to avoid being recognized as the architect of Brexit. 🎭🚜 #FarmersProtest #Incognito #Farage #clarksonsadwad #nigelcosplay

The Persimmon tree has lost its leaves but the fruit are slowly ripening. When do you pick them though?

In a 2021 interview with The Telegraph, Jeremy Clarkson mentioned that one of the main reasons he bought his Cotswolds farm was to avoid inheritance tax.
Now him and Farage are disrupting London traffic to protest..shame they didn't just superglue themselves to a tractor.

At the Intourist hotels in Soviet Russia in 1983 we mainly ate lamb, and there was never any ice cream. This book should help with the borsht, stroganoff and vereniki recipes
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/s...

Farmers complain- inheritance tax on farms over £1m. Seems good to me. By taxing the rich wealth is redistributed, + helps reduce economic disparities + provide resources for public services I'd support the nationalisation of farmland so land is used for the common good.

Reading @katebradbury.bsky.social brilliant book One Garden against the World. Has the advantage of me being in it..vote for it as winner of the people's book prize. peoplesbookprize.com/2024-cat/non...

My Grandfather C.D. Darlington wrote an obituary of the Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov who died in a gulag after a Stalinist purge of opponents of Lysenkoism.
Great to read about Vavilov and the saviors of the Leningrad seed bank in Simon Parkin's book.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Bluesky over Petworth park