At people going about a pandemic disease that they find personally inconvenient 'got to live with it'.

As if 'living with it' is just about shrugging your shoulders and letting the dice fall as they may.

Am surprised at no reports of rumbling in the cemeteries where Victorian sanitarians are buried.

Because when you are dealing with a disease like ( Read more... )

Apparently it is not yet confirmed whether a historical monument - The Konigshaven bridge in Rotterdam, known to locals as the De Hef - is going to be dismantled in order to permit the passage of a 'superyacht' built in Rotterdam for Jeff Bezos.

On account of apparently nobody thought to think that one through during the process...

And, my dearios ( Read more... )

Sharks!! in the Thames!!! with venomous spines!!!!: [S]harks including tope, starry smooth-hound and spurdog -- a slender fish measuring some 23 inches and covered in venomous spines -- have been found. Spurdogs can be found in deep water, and the spines in front of the shark's two dorsal fins secrete a venom that can cause pain and swelling in ( Read more... )

We may note, dr rdrz, that there are no actual statues to either John Snow or Joseph Bazalgette - their (visible) monuments are modest.
I remarked, earlier this year, that Our Leaders were pretty much putting the handle back on the Broad Street Pump, and at this present moment, I would not be surprised if they were entering into a remunerative deal ( Read more... )

Lost in the Archives: Ayahs in Scotland: British families travelling back and forth from India to Britain, often hired travelling ayahs or brought their family ayah on the long and occasionally treacherous sea voyage. Before the Suez Canal opened and the advent of steam powered liners, these journeys could take up to six months. The ayah on board ( Read more... )

Do we, my dearios, think that the fuming opinionators who turned out in force to decry the National Trust's dred wokerie as violating the spirit of a Grate Nashional Institushyon will be baying quite so loudly about this:?
National Trust plan to fence off acres of Wiltshire park for tenant: Critics say loss of public access to section of Dinton ( Read more... )

Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat: still making that come back from the brink
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River of life: zoo’s yearly count finds seals thriving on Thames: In the 1950s, the Thames was declared biologically dead, and the Guardian reported in 1959: “The tidal reaches of the Thames constitute a badly managed open sewer.” But now seals can enjoy a varied diet of ( Read more... )

Honestly, these people.
The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship.
Okay, one's eyebrows hoist at the teeny-weeny cabins of this libertarian utopian enterprise, and the fact there are no kitchens, only the potentiality for sharing the restaurant kitchen -
I think we may guess that this is a project of the kind ( Read more... )

Dept of, following the call of the wiiiilllddd, following the call of the wild: Wildcats, storks and beavers: my stay on a Devon rewilding farm. Complete with composting toilets.
I am raising my eyebrows a bit at the water-buffaloes, which I don't think were ever native to this land like the beaver, the lynx, the wolf, wild boars etc, however good ( Read more... )

Whale freed after being stranded at lock along River Thames in London - video
But having been freed it now seems to have got stuck again: [S]potted near Teddington lock just after 10.20am, heading downstream towards Chiswick and back towards Richmond: “Its condition is deteriorating. It’s not acting the way it did last night. It’s basically lost ( Read more... )