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I've started a new site www.ephemeral80s.co.uk all about forgotten bits and pieces of British life from the 1980s, expect the mundane and the ephemeral.

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City of London from Hampstead by Algernon Newton RA (1880-1968) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem less magic & full of wonder.

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'The Gatehouse, Highgate' by Hilary Masetti hilarysketches.co.uk

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Hear music that was made to soar — in a space built to carry it. Listen and feel Vivaldi, Haydn & Purcell echoing through the nave of St Albans Cathedral with the brilliant St Albans Bach Choir on Saturday 14 June, 7.30pm. 🎟️https://bit.ly/4k0BrQf ~ @stalbansbachchoir.bsky.social #Summer #Music

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'The Spaniards Inn', Hampstead (1926) by Frederick Dudley Walenn (Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre)

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Good stuff from Surrey, and with their Festival of Red Ball Cricket this weekend, we doubt anyone would be surprised to see them break it again. It's will always be more obvious in London, but there's momentum behind County Cricket across the country

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Good morning! This week's theme is Pubs 🍺🍷 ------ 'The Flask Exterior, Hampstead' (2016) by James MacKinnon jamesmackinnonfineart.com

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Today I chatted to a young couple with their tiny baby doing a tour of the county grounds in our crowd of over 2,000. Surrey had the largest crowd this century of well over 6,000. County cricket in its present guise is having a resurgence & is popular as it is. DON’T CHANGE IT

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Good Day! Hampstead Heath, looking towards Harrow at Sunset by John Constable RA ~ 9th August 1823 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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This looks absolutely stunning - “arrested decay” restoration of the Soho Theatre Walthamstow

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Here is the Radio Times from the week that this particular #TOTP was broadcast in May 1986 when they all got a bit Snooker Loopy.

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Sad news. His recordings of British light classics sparkle as brightly today as when they were made. I sang in one of the children’s choirs he led, and his excellence and enthuiasm helped form my love of music. His setting of Herrick’s To Daffodills has walked with me over the decades. RIP, Ron.

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Until today, I had assumed the intersection of the Venn diagram of snooker and classical music was a blank space. So I’m very grateful to @tommckinney.bsky.social for playing this piece on his BBC Radio 3 breakfast show this morning. Great fun (from 1:08:53). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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These posts from @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social are one of the delights of this place

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My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

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Bank Holiday Offer Grab that print you’ve had your eye on, stock up on cards or treat your phone to a new case. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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I don't think you can like snooker without liking Mark Williams. What a frame.

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The Farm (1958) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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'Winter Dusk in London' (2013) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk

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The Ladybird ‘dream kitchen’ (As pictured in John Bull Magazine, 1953)

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Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting) Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971) Happy Easter

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Good morning! This week's theme is St Paul's Cathedral. ------ 'St Paul's and Ludgate Hill' (c.1887) by William Logsdail (Private collection)

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A brilliant crowd in attendance at the Kia Oval today ☀️ Thank you all for your support! 🤎 | #SurreyCricket

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Happy 97th birthday Tom Lehrer 🎂 Today, I'll be celebrating the birthday of the greatest musical satirist of the last hundred years. Born in Manhattan in 1928, Lehrer was a mathematician who wrote comedy and satirical songs, and became an international celebrity in the late 50s and early 60s. /1

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Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead by John Constable RA 1822 Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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I am utterly besotted with this marvellous John Dean Munroe Harvey painting of 1951’s Festival Of Britain by the South Bank of The Thames in London.

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Can we launch a class-action lawsuit against recipes that say "30 minutes preparation time!", then leave you - two hours later - a broken-down ruin, standing in the burning rubble of the kitchen, practically wearing the contents of the fridge?

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It costs £16.99 to buy my Menus That Made History. It costs £16.99 to buy my Art Day by Day: 366 Brushes With History. It costs £14.99 to buy my Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word. Meta stole them all and paid nothing. @libdemdaisy.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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In the orchard Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (The Farm, 1958)

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A drive through the Valleys this afternoon

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maybe see you in OXFORD on Saturday ?? I’ll be talking all things Cornwall at the Oxford Literary Festival at 4pm. Be great to see you there. #TrelawnysCornwall emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Imposter caught at Heathrow substation.

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