JohnPollock

@JohnPollock

Writer &c. e.g. , & parts between. Captain of a 1934 motor yacht. Aboard, abroad, or bored.

The Thames
TheyWereThere.co.uk
Joined July 2009
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    18 Nov 2020

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  2. 15 hours ago

    Rather lovely

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    Jun 3

    Nominations are now open for this year’s Butler Trust Awards - help us give credit where it's due!

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  4. Jun 1

    Today’s sundowner. Sounds: It Fills You Up, live, A Night In San Francisco. That’s me caught up.

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  5. Jun 1

    And I have a new neighbour (and six more on the way soon) who has decided that houseplants are her thing...

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  6. Jun 1

    The day before yesterday’s sundowner (I’ve been bewitched by the sun). Sounds: Close Enough For Jazz by, unsurprisingly,

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    Jun 1

    The newly restored 14th century shrine of St Amphibalus at St Albans cathedral features a carving of a head wearing a facemask to commemorate the shrine’s restoration during the pandemic. (Image: St Albans Cathedral)

    carving of a face wearing a facemask
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    May 31

    31 May 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Marianne Nunes Vas, was born in Amsterdam. In February 1943 she was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber.

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    May 30

    Lovely details from the window commemorating Hugh Weller- Poley who died aged 20 in 1942 while on active service with the RAF. The window is in Boxted church (left), within sight of the house (right) where he grew up.

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    May 30

    Why the lab leak theory matters

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    May 28

    The full Tiananmen Square tank man picture is much more powerful than the cropped one.

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    May 27

    PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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    May 24

    The River of Life Birth by Andrew Mccallum 1850 Oil on Canvas (Manchester Art Gallery)

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  14. May 20

    "but we must recognise, above all, that the elders among us deserve our every consideration. Because we are unlikely to see this extraordinary vintage of humankind again, because they are living history...and because it shows–rather than signals–virtue."

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  15. May 16

    As per previous tweet: by

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  16. May 15

    The piece in quoted below is one of the best things I’ve ever read:

    The real scandal is that , and other media knew quite well that Hamas was in their building in Gaza - and never reported it. Now they are pretending to be shocked that the building would be targeted. As wrote in 2014:
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  17. May 8

    Ars longa, vita brevis (and somewhat blurry):

    Discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894.
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    May 3

    Stunning time-lapse footage from the International Space Station of a rocket launch from Earth 😮

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    Apr 25

    In case you were wondering what penguins going down stairs look like... yep, they’re just as cute as you’d imagine.

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    Apr 25

    Roman glass bottle in the shape of a fish, 1st-2nd century A.D. Zadar Museum of Ancient Glass,Croatia

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