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I’ve always had a bit of an unusual attitude towards my ‘career’ and it has only got more pronounced as I’ve got older. I’ve never really been driven by stability or progression or benefits. For the most part even money hasn’t been much of a motivating factor – I only let that influence a decision significantly once and that didn’t end well. Depending on how I count I’ve worked for …

Now I thought this lot were one of those typical hairy Grove 'n' Gate freedom fighters in the vicinity of The Deviants and Edgar Broughton Band. Fuzz freakout. Kings of oblivion. But this here "War Girl" is gorgeous, lyrical and dreamy - the guitar-tone closer to I dunno Manuel Gottsching. Love that hovering slide in the back of the action, like a cloud canopy shot through with sunset.It's a Twink …

I took a lot of trains in Central Europe over the last couple of weeks but this wasn’t one of them. Waiting for our actual train early in the morning the sun was low and hitting this colourful train car just right. I couldn’t help but to capture what was right in front of me. Ljubljana was the star of my trip for me, I loved the vibe of the …

Albrighton was a proper English village. Everything about it glistened with history and middle-class privilege, right from the proper Victorian station building.Sadly it's no longer in use for railway purposes. Looking through the window I saw a vacated office space, power cables laying across the floor, empty tables pushed up against the wall. I followed a man with an adorable excited Golden Retriever puppy down the path to the street …

The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort trying to understand why. Much of that effort was wasted. A decade ago, Nature Geoscience published Cohen et al (2014), a review paper on potential connections between the Arctic warming and extreme events (which has been cited an impressive 1449 …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X100VI – 23 mm focal length – 1/220″ at f/8 – ISO 125 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land This photograph, titled “Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park. October, 2024.”, was originally published on All-Encompassing Trip.

I have just put up the final dates until next summer for these two walks if you would like to explore these areas with me, using my father’s photos from the late 1940s: The South Bank – Marsh, Industry, Culture and the Festival of Britain on Sunday 20th of October. Click here to book. The Lost Streets of the Barbican on Saturday the 2nd of November. Click here to book. …

Toxic masculinity and corporate culture are the main drivers of Tim Edge’s play One Of The Boys, a four-hander set in an unspecified company where sales and profits are seen as far more valuable than values or employees. In just 85 minutes, there’s a lot to reveal. The first ‘twist’, involving Heidi ((Jess Gough), was... The post Theatre review: One Of The Boys appeared first on LouReviews.

By Mx Kris Vyas-Myall The Times is running a series of articles where major thinkers elucidate on what they believe life will be like in 1980. The series started with Arthur Koestler (philosopher most known for his Orwellian novel, Darkness at Noon) who predicts that, in the Britain of 1980, Mediocracy will be the order … Continue reading [October 6, 1969] The Rule of a Mediocracy (Vision of Tomorrow #3) …

I’ve been seeing a lot of pieces by an artist named Matsu lately and I wanted to share them here. I’m really enjoying this style of slaps, throwies, and collage art and the use of a cute little mushroom as a character. So many mushrooms! The post Street art by Matsu appeared first on Doc Pop's Blog.

Everywhere in chainsWhere William Henry Smith (stationer) and Jesse Boot (chemist) began, the other chain retailers followed. In the late-19th and 20th centuries, countless high street shops belonged to chain store companies, who aimed to have a branch in every town and to corner the market in their specialist area, ensuring that a shopper in Brighton could travel to Bradford and find some* if not all of the same familiar …

I just hope it's the right one. This final session began in Keldar, where I took a ship to Hazlett and from there to Portsmith, stole a skiff, and rowed around the continent to Sonora. I used my pass to enter the Oasis Club, which turned out to be basically a regular tavern. As I entered, a patron named Sally warned me to show respect to an old man named …

This Christmas, Entertainers, one of the UK’s leading entertainment producers debut their first Christmas show; Step Into Christmas. The show embarks on a 35-date tour and arrives at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow on the 11th November. Step Into Christmas is a festive, feel-good show that brings all the magic of the season to life, with all your favourite Christmas songs including All I Want for Christmas Is You, Last Christmas, …

A year or so ago I was playing through Disco Elysium again, trying to see what I could break through hacks. I upped all of my version of Harrier DuBois’s skill points to well over maximum, gave him a nice little stipend with which to pay for his room at the Whirling-in-Rags, and set him loose in the dilapidated ruins of Revachol—the superest of Super Cops. What I found was …

I've had a really bad cold that thankfully on the way out as I'm in Spain next week for some chill 😎 time, a couple or three lemsip hot toddies sorted me out throughout the day. So from a sore throat, to a cough, to a streaming nose, a painful cough and losing my voice for 24 hours, a proper one this one, the end is in sight. As I'm …