Our urban runabout, coming 2022.
]]>West Londoners might miss out on the 70 plane flypast today but we won't care - we have our own flyover.
https://brentford.nub.news/news/local-news/brentford-rewind-history-of-the-chiswick-flyover
Had a flashback overnight.
A young, Welsh-speaking couple were neighbours in Chadwell Heath. When I was about 10.
I was introduced. to cheese and jam sandwiches and bread with caraway seeds by the young Merediths.
I'm so glad I now know of him..
door when you open it.
]]>I was 18 when I first walked on to a Covid ward. I began the year studying cells and chemistry with my friends in sixth form and I ended it donning scrubs on my own in a small staff toilet preparing to cross the red line. I sat in the corner as a nurse asked if a family wanted to be taught how to put on PPE so they could see their daughter. “No,” they replied. They had done this many times before. Today was goodbye.
Later that morning, in a sombre silence broken only by the buzzing and beeping of life-saving equipment, I assisted in taking a woman to the mortuary. This was my fourth trip of the day, but this time I noticed that the patient’s tag said she was scarcely much older than me. I took my break alone, to keep myself and others safe.
That evening, I bought myself a pizza and ate it in a car park by the sea. The police promptly came and told me to go home. Perhaps I should have worn a suit and said it was a work meeting.
Louis Sanderson
Exeter, Devon
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/25/paul-wellers-30-greatest-songs-ranked
Our urban runabout, coming 2022.
]]>A dreadful day.
]]>Mind how you go, #Endeavour. pic.twitter.com/Yf6h2ZX3pA
— Endeavour (@EndeavourTV) February 9, 2020
The older I get the more clearly I remember things that never happened... Mark Twain?
Am back, listening to Radio Paradise.
I do wander off, from time to time.
Thank God, they're still with us.
Here's an example of why.
https://radioparadise.com/player/info/44343/Thea_Hjelmeland-Your_Well
After a flying visit this morning I came across this online: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/richmond-park-attractions/ian-dury-bench
]]>https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
https://twitter.com/BBCr4today?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/opinion/england-italy-euros-2021.html
Louise Lewis
Source: Musixmatch
"In its pre-pandemic heyday, we very narrowly thought of the commute as doing one job: getting us to and from our place of work. But clearly, the commute was doing something more, something that we failed to appreciate. What was it?" The Atlantic: The Psychological Benefits of Commuting to Work. (It's not about commuting to work. It's about being alone in a car, and it works a lot better during weeks when Howard Stern is on the air. Bababooey.)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/21/team-astrazeneca-team-pfizer-vaccine-loyalty
“The Labour party is like a stagecoach,” Wilson once observed. “If you rattle along at great speed everybody is too exhilarated or seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.”
Impressive article from Zarah Sultana.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/01/how-money-shapes-our-politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/bernie-sanders-meme-crochet-doll-
Sounds of Ships' Horns
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/24/billy-bragg-barking-essex-ode-bbc-radio
Fascinating explanation of these spooky, haunting stones.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/23/david-carter-obituary
