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Same day. Same time. Different temperatures. 🌡️
Our sensors recorded 29.5°C in Postman’s Park vs 33.4°C at Monument, just minutes apart.
The difference? 🌳 Green infrastructure.
When the next heat wave comes, find your nearest City green space: cityoflondon.gov.uk/citygard…
#ClimateResilience
ALT Split image compares cooler Postman’s Park, 29.5°C, with hotter Monument, 33.4°C, highlighting shade and water versus exposed hard surfaces.
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#Breakfast on @BBCRadio3 from #Auschwitz on #HolocaustMemorialDay: outstanding. I had misgivings. But @PetrocTrelawny is such a gifted broadcaster: all was done with the utmost sensitivity. A 3 hour reflective sequence of words & music that will repay future listening. Thank you.
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The Great O Antiphons are a series of short verses which count down the days to Christmas Eve. Sung at the beginning and end of the Magnificat during Evensong, each antiphon begins with a different name for Jesus. They draw on Scripture to help us learn about who Jesus will be, as predicted by the prophets.
Here at Westminster Abbey, these antiphons are sung at Evensong from 17 to 23 December. This year, we have recorded them in our beautiful 13th-century Chapter House and will be releasing a new video on the appointed day for each antiphon. You're invited to observe this Advent tradition with us as we await the coming of Christ at Christmas.
We begin today with O Wisdom: 'O Wisdom, which camest out of the mouth of the most high, and reachest from one end to another mightily, and sweetly ordering all things. Come and teach us the way of prudence.'
On Sunday 28th April we're celebrating Noël Coward's connections with Hampstead and Highgate with a miscellany of extracts from his plays and musical numbers. Here's a reel by Robert Hazle from the Noël Coward Foundation with more details. Come along if you can!
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Ropsley church near Grantham in Lincolnshire contains a rare thing, a pillar that has been signed and dated. The pillar was completed by Michaelmas of 1380 by mason Thomas Bate of nearby Corby.
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The breach at Short Ferry has flooded a vast area of farmland up to Barlings Abbey and Newball. This would normally be the Viking Way! It gives an idea of the setting of the abbey on the fen island of Oxeney surrounded by the limewoods – at Bardney, England
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Italy has dedicated a postage stamp to Queen Elizabeth II.
repubblica.it/esteri/2023/09…
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🐏 Sheep are returning on the Heath next week, 11-18 September!
The sheep grazing trial is back aimed to make an area of the Heath more biodiverse.
The sheep (on loan from Mudchute City Farm) will be out every day from around 8.30am to 7pm on the Heath extension.
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Golden Goldoni! An all-star cast in Colin Gregory’s 5-star @TheatreinSquare production in the gem that is the Hill Street Theatre @edfringe - it’s a place Burns knew & a play he’d have loved: marvellous Mirandolina! What a treat. Thank you all & congratulations!
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We're delighted to be hosting @TheatreinSquare this Friday for a London preview before they take their show Mirandolina to Edinburgh next week #EdFringe #Breakaleg 🎭
The penniless Marquess doesn't need asking to #FillYerBoots! Come see our London preview at 7:30 this Friday at @Incogs_Theatre then 10am next Mon-Sat at @HSTheatre41! @edfringe #EdFringe
ALT A man in a yellow jacket talks to a man in a three piece tweed suit, both seated at a café table.
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"They call her the laughing countess!". Join us for more cheesy jokes next Monday to Saturday at 10am at @HSTheatre41! @edfringe #EdFringe #Mirandolina #FillYerBoots #amdram #theatre
ALT Three women in 60s dresses standing in a line, one laughing uncontrollably and the one in the centre pointing at her.
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The penniless Marquess doesn't need asking to #FillYerBoots! Come see our London preview at 7:30 this Friday at @Incogs_Theatre then 10am next Mon-Sat at @HSTheatre41! @edfringe #EdFringe
ALT A man in a yellow jacket talks to a man in a three piece tweed suit, both seated at a café table.
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#StainedGlassSunday 🧵 A story: this stained glass panel is part of the east window in Tattershall Holy Trinity Church in Lincolnshire. The church was originally filled with colourful glass in the 15th century, but sometime during the 1700s it was removed...
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ALT A stained glass window at Tattershall Holy Trinity Church made up of predominantly yellow and gold fragments of different stained glass that was recovered. Photo credit: Jules & Jenny CC-BY-SA 2.0
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Today is the feast of St Benedict. Here St Benedict is giving his rule to St Maurus and two other monks
#StBenedict
BL Add MS 16979; 12th century; Regula Sancti Benedicti; France (St Gilles, Nîmes); f.21v @BLMedieval
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An alternative and equally plausible theory is that Agatha Christie had somehow evaded being adjusted to the Gregorian Calendar along with everyone else born after 1752, and thus has to be reset by the shadowy forces that control Big Time.
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Charles III is very conveniently named for public transport, if they ever name a new Tube line in his honour it can just be the CaroLine
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Just a short amount of time spent in #nature can help you to find a sense of calm & joy 💚
Whether you’re relaxing in the garden or on your way to work, try listening out for birdsong, look for bees & butterflies, or notice the movement of the clouds.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
