#Brexit : all going swimmingly well isn't it? ☹️

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Drawing - most likely of somewhere in #Fife - by #Edinburgh artist Hector Chalmers (1849-1943).

Yesterday PA Consulting generously hosted our dissemination event where we shared findings📈 & showcased our short film outputs🎬 from our Child Safety in the Metaverse #VIRRAC research led by Prof Julia Davidson OBE & Dr Elena Martellozzo, funded by REPHRAIN National Research Centre.
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#Macron gets it. Future competitiveness depends both on innovation *and* skills-based productivity growth. Forget the Solow paradox: grow R&D to engineer both. timeshighereducation.com/news/rd-spendi… via Times Higher Education

Watching the cartoon version of the wonderful #Zagazoo - a story for parents *and* children if ever there was one - and realising I am now so much nearer the Pelican than I was.
Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures, Episodes: 1. Zagazoo: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer

Watching #AngelaVanDenBogerd 's evidence at the #PostOfficeInquiry - and the very worst of the 'senior corporate type persona' in all its glory. Emotionless, defensive, bland, sterile, dismissive, haughty. What makes people want to be like this? How could you live with yourself?

I love Clark's Civilization but don't always agree with his judgements and find his patrician manner at times grating. Isn't that normal? Or must we now either revere or hate - and have *only* those two options? We've created a bleak, noisy, pointless world if that's the case.

Removing piles of 18th/19thc #watercolours , #prints and #drawings to a place of safety. I must start selling them off soon! That or paper the walls in them in a sort of high end découpage.

Catherine A Eggar-Banks (b. 1852, fl. 1886 - 1907) paints a mill.

'Look, can you take a handful of migrants to #Rwanda in July, yes or no?'

An #antiques dealer is aiming to double profit on each sale, trading up from a £1 purchase to £1m for charity. So far he's at £32 having flipped a £16 painting. Chances of reaching the £1m? Hope he does it.

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Working from home today, and 'The Six O'Clock Dog' has just woofed. Let me explain. During lockdown a neighbourhood dog was always, to the minute, a reliable reminder to take a break at 6pm. He'd woof for about 30 seconds, loudly.

He's adjusted to Summer Time badly. He's early.

A head by #Watteau , engraved as a print by Balthazar Sigismund Setlezky (1690-1771). The plate was produced for Johann Christian Leopold in #Augsburg , probably in about 1753.

After a most depressing day in the trenches of #HigherEducation , here's a comforting, calming drawing of a sleeping Victorian child by William Henry Hunt (1790-1864).

A flag now sadly associated mainly with nutterdom and fat blokes in ill fitting teeshirts.

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Fifteen years today since my mum died. Still missed. The missing never goes away, and neither would I want it to go.

'Undo all these Brexit benefits.' Sure, Lord Frost, sure. #Brexit benefits. All 0 of them.

'Misanthropy as policy' is clearly thriving. metro.co.uk/2024/04/21/tea… via Metro

Here's the #BradfordOnAvon memorial of a 17thc ancestor (my 7x great grandfather) who owned the land on which, eventually in the 1960s and by sheer fluke of chance, my parents' home was built. He wasn't born in the town, neither were my parents - or me - but all 4 ended up there.