This Is Just To Say

“Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet.

Early winter sunset viewed from Pitshanger Park, Ealing, London

National Savings & Investments’ new home page NS&I has a new website and the home page features a very strange image for a savings bank.

With President Pudgy McTrumpcake on our shores this week, and with Brexit still tearing the country apart, BBC Radio 3 decided to cheer us all up this morning by playing an old Noël Coward song: There are bad times just around the corner.

I reckon that I’ve learnt enough to build my app.

I’m sure some people think that The Economist must be a boring and staid publication, but this final paragraph from the magazine’s departing Bagehot columnist is sheer poetry: Beyond the headlines and TV studios, Britain’s everyday impressions are mostly…

Here’s a clip from A Very Murray Christmas (recently released on Netflix), which stars Bill Murray and several other celebrities (NB—both George Clooney and Miley Cyrus sing, although perhaps that’s putting it politely).

The pulpit at St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire

Taxi, 1983 by J.

The City of London has been invaded by 50 Shaun-the-Sheep statues in an effort to raise money for sick children.