Cancelling HS2 is one thing, but Sunak has slashed my cat treat budget. General Election now!

“If you’re standing on the slippery bank of a river, and somebody BOUNCES you from behind, you slip,” said Eeyore.
“But who did it?” asked Roo.
Eeyore didn’t answer.
“But, Eeyore,” said Pooh, “was it a Joke, or an Accident?”
“I didn’t stop to ask, Pooh.” ~A.A.Milne #FridayFeeling

Nothing says it's the end of the week quite like Cupid surfing on a crab

A 2,000 year old image from the richly decorated House of the Vettii Pompeii Sites

📷 Sept 2023 #Roman #FrescoFriday

I am confident that nobody wants a general election, so I know that none of you will sign this petition calling for one then RT this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6419…

Well done, Daniel F Gosling and The National Archives:

Where to start with: Jon Fosse theguardian.com/books/2023/oct…

Join author and actor Paterson Joseph as he tells the remarkable story of Charles Ignatius Sancho: a story that begins on a tempestuous Atlantic Ocean and ends at the very centre of London life.

11 October, 19:30 BST.

Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-secret-d…

#BlackHistoryMonth

The Iliad holds up a mirror to the time it was written, as well as to the time it was set, allowing every generation to discover it anew. bbc.com/culture/articl…

There are things that lurk in the library,
that thumb and squeeze between the leaves.
New worlds can be found in the books,
characters listen to all that you read.
There are whisperings between the words
and shivers rearing to leap on your spine...
— Joseph Coelho, There are…

Nobel Prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill
From: bit.ly/2JQlADZ

For #NationalPoetryDay , simply the best: #Shakespeare ’s Sonnets.

David Tennant reads #18: youtube.com/watch?v=nD6Of-…

Patterson Joseph reads #29: youtube.com/watch?v=t-5ala…

Judi Dench reads #116: youtube.com/watch?v=Wzbro1…

Alan Rickman reads #130: youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0…

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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (5th October) was at 7.13am, sunset is at 6.37pm 🌤

BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

“The 600-year-old oak floorboards in Norfolk guildhall are believed to be the only surviving stage from William Shakespeare”:

Treading on #Shakespeare (maybe): theguardian.com/culture/2023/o…

Edward Alleyn’s chest and keys Dulwich Archive. #IronworkThursday

A bit of history on why his manuscript archive was stored inside the chest for centuries until being catalogued in the 1880s: henslowe-alleyn.org.uk/history/a-brie…

'All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you. '

- Ernest Hemingway, 1954 #NobelPrize in Literature

On this day in 1940 a bomb struck the Tower of London, blowing apart the North Bastion and narrowly missing the White Tower 🏰 Tragically, there were two fatalities, YW Reeves and Lily Francess Lunn.

© Historic Royal Palaces/The Yeoman Warder Archive

One of the most powerful and distinguished storytellers of our time: Toni Morrison, became the first African American woman to be awarded a #NobelPrize when she received the literature prize in 1993.

Stay tuned to find out the recipient(s) of the 2023 literature prize!

The Norman west door at at St. Bee’s Priory in Cumbria. The Benedictine priory was founded between 1120 and 1135 and was subordinate to St. Mary’s Abbey in York. #AdoorableThursday 📷 My own.