Stephanie Cronin

@criminographer Your post has just popped up on my timeline; as one mummy to another I just had to say that my heart breaks for you tonight and sending so much love to you all at this incredibly sad time.

We are devastated to say that our beautiful Isabelle died in the early hours of this morning. We are absolutely broken. However, we want you all not to think of her death, but to honour her by living life as she did: fearlessly, joyously & spontaneously.

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

The KING of billion-dollar brands. Ryan Reynolds. At 47, he is a Hollywood star who owned & sold +$14 billion worth of businesses just for fun. I spent the weekend analyzing his work. Here’s his story, how he did it (and his most genius ads):

What an incredible light display tonight in Berkshire. This is why I teach photography to help create moments like these! #auroreboreale #aurora #AuroraBoreal #northenlights #lightshow #Solar_Colors #solarstorm #SolarFlare

Justin Timberlake performs “Señorita”, “Rock Your Body”, “What Goes Around”, and “Until The End of Time” during his Tiny Desk Concert 🔗: youtu.be/cMIJsoaxRjk?si…

Justin Timberlake performs “Until The End Of Time” at his NPR Tiny Desk: youtu.be/cMIJsoaxRjk?si…

I know there are worse things going on in the world but my goodness, this has made me so sad today. #SycamoreGap

I was explaining to a student recently how we did literature searches in the 1980s and 1990s. We had to look up articles in a printed copy of Index Medicus, and then pushed a trolley around the library to collect the journals so we could photocopy the articles. We also had to pay for the photocopies, which made us very selective about the articles we used in our literature reviews. There was an incredulous look in her eyes. And when we got to the photocopier, we had to hope that it had not broken down or that the queue to use it was too long. Arriving well before library closing time was also important. Online articles did not exist then and sometimes we had to wait for weeks for articles to arrive using the Inter-Library Loan Service if they were not in the library’s own collection. Eventually, printed copies of Index Medicus were replaced by a CD-ROM version (which you have to book a slot in advance to use) and then eventually by online bibliographic databases. And now, we have immediate access to online journal articles. I then went onto explain that the terms 'cut' and 'paste' in modern computer programs are there because that is once what we had to do. We cut out graphs and diagrams with scissors and then pasted them into documents using glue. More incredulous looks followed. When we presented our work, we used hand written acetates on an overhead projector. Moving to printed acetates was a big step forwards (or so it seemed at the time). Presenting at professional conferences meant using (expensive) slides. Errors that you couldn't correct were common. Eventually acetates and slides were replaced by PowerPoint projectors. When I was a student in the 1980s, all our course work was hand-written. Most of us did not have typewriters and very few of us could type. When word processing software became common later in the decade, it meant no more Tippex or retyping whole documents to correct errors. My first printer was a 9-pin dot matrix. It was noisy, slow and the quality of the print was poor. But it produced much more legible output than hand-written documents. Moving to 24 pin dot matrix printers was a big advance in the quality of printed documents. Eventually, affordable ink jet and laser printers became common. Moving from cassettes to floppy disks and then hard disks for storage were big advances. My first hard disk was 20MB in capacity. Such was the small size of computer programs and their data files in the 1980s, I couldn’t come close to filling it. Now a word document with some embedded images can often be larger than 20MB. My student clearly thought I had grown up in a technological stone age. In many ways, her reaction was like mine when older people used to tell me what life was like in the 1930s and 1940s during the Great Depression and World War Two. But although the 1980s and early 1990s were a more technologically-backwards era than now, there were benefits in being a student then. We had our course fees paid and received a grant to cover our living costs, so we did not graduate with the vast debts that current students have.

Is summer officially over now?? #thunderstorms #london

12:41am Turned out nice again #London #Thunderstorms

@SW_Help any update on this please?

Yep… We’re stunned she’s not in prison.

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler. After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ "I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣ My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me. It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

@CinchShare Hi guys, finding it really tricky to get in touch! Trying chat; there's no way to click on "new chat" and just our previous chat from a while ago. Ive replied to that but it's been 20 minutes and says that replies are 1 min. How can I message you?

@ManCityHelp Thanks for getting back to me!

@SummersPhotoUK Hi Stephanie, the Blue car park will be available all day. The Green car park will open when turnstiles open at 5pm.

@ManCityHelp Hi there, what time does your blue car park open / close for concerts? Says 3 hours before kick off for matches, but not sure if different for gigs. Thanks!

@jellymalin We really are magical human beings! Im 4 weeks behind you and off to Coldplay gig!

37 weeks today 🤰🏻 Celebrated with a feast in Chinatown. Proud of my body for the last 9 months - pregnancy really is the stuff of magic ✨ #nyc

@ChrisTheTwat72 @Natasha89016141 @ManCityHelp Hello - what time did you get into the blue car park? Can't find anything online - thank you!

COLDPLAY: Doors will open at 17:00, you can see all set times below 👇 *Subject to change #ManCityHelp

@MarthaBrookLDN @RacheJ @monzo It was brilliant, another little reminder of the joy you bring to all of us!

@SummersPhotoUK @RacheJ @monzo Oh my gosh this is AMAZING 😍😍😍

New @monzo pot images 😍😍😍

@RacheJ @monzo @MarthaBrookLDN You’ve inspired me!!

@SummersPhotoUK @monzo @MarthaBrookLDN Getting me that advent calendar this year lol