The Frame Blog

My book in memory of Sophie is @thepoetrykit 's Book of the Month; it is being sold in aid of @smitf_london 's Vicar's Relief Fund for the homeless: poetrykit.org/blog/?p=403 If you'd like a copy, email your address, & I'll send you details of how to pay.

This is how Ukrainians welcome their defenders home after Russian captivity. No one here is paid. These are ordinary people who came out in the cold, heat and just to wave a flag, cheer, and say “welcome home” to those who defended their country.

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Remarkably, on a wall in St. Oswald’s, Ashbourne, the original brass consecration plate of 1241 survives - in honour of St. Oswald (Oswaldi). It feels like a wormhole - as though the medieval world has briefly surfaced in the present - captured like a fly in amber.

@MadameGilflurt Just his rifle, his pony... and him 🙂

It's Fridino! May your weekend be as merry as Dean Martin (sigh) makes me!

Boss doing his job and caught a mouse. Apologies for the slightly gruesome pic.

I hope my cats dont tell my wife about the fun we had without her

This is real patriotism.

"We forced Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers. We promised to protect Ukraine from Russia. We made Ukraine vulnerable. So yes, this is our war.." - Bill Clinton 🫡

What kind of world are we leaving behind? Unfortunately, it is a world distorted by war and war-like language. This pollution of reason comes from the geopolitical sphere and invades every social relationship. Any simplification that creates enemies must be corrected, especially in universities, through complexity of thought and wise exercise of memory.

The body of another child was found under the debris. Russia killed two kids and 14 adults in Kyiv today. It injured 57 more. I can't find words. I am aching and sorry for everyone whose lives were ruined by Russia. RIP.

@MadameGilflurt She's made a clean Sweep of the modistes' ateliers...

@chapps @antmoose @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @rogueclassicist Oh, he looks much better in the... bronze 🙂

@antmoose @TheFrameBlogX @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @rogueclassicist Ah, so this was the base for this particular gilded Forum Boarium statue? 📸 me

On #EpigraphyTuesday our attention is drawn to this cylindrical #altar to #Hercules, from the #ForumBoarium, used for many centuries as the base for a famous #bronze statue of the god. It dates to about June of 81 CE, as the #inscription tells us.

@antmoose @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @chapps @rogueclassicist Oh, good! - thank you so much for telling me; I was afraid that a pope might have disapproved...

@TheFrameBlogX @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @chapps @rogueclassicist Oh! Do you mean the statue? Yes, it's still there.

@antmoose @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @chapps @rogueclassicist And the statue is still surviving, I hope ?

@TheFrameBlogX @museiincomune @antinousgaygod @arakhnos @ChezCirce @HawkeJon @NCDrusus38 @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @chapps @rogueclassicist The structure where the statue was found got demolished in the C15, but the round temple that's still in the Forum Boarium, of Hercules Olivarius, gives us an idea.

@BeardyHowse I would outrun it (if you're heading in a frumentorious direction), and opt for wheat wine, made by my mother, with the flavour/colour of a single malt & pretty nearly the same punch. The residue, full of sultanas & v frumenty, was got at by the dogs, who became extremely drunk..

@TheFrameBlogX Would you go as far as frumenty?

Pasta la vista: Waveney Mill on the Yare at Yarmouth, which turns wheat into pasta.

@Helenus_ @blaiklockBP @Nigel_Farage A wolf masquerading as a frog.

@blaiklockBP @TheFrameBlogX @Nigel_Farage That all fits with how he appears, esp when the mask slips and he quickly gets impatient, rude and nasty.

The main things I learnt working with @Nigel_Farage 1. His word is not his bond. 2. He does not write emails - no paper trail. 3. He has zero ability to do any detail: 1-hour meetings turn into 56 minutes of Nigel talking about Nigel and 4 mins on the subject the meeting was about. 4. Nigel has no real friends - everyone and everything is expendable. 5. Nigel has enormous energy, but a lot of it is wasted because he drinks and parties too much. 6. Nigel is not an intellectual - he thinks Jordan Peterton is boring. 7. Nigel has spies. 8. Nigel loves money and spends it like water. 9. Nigel surrounds himself with rather facile young men like the convicted posh George. 10. Nigel does not really like working if it is not him being a showman - I cannot even imagine him reading a policy paper. 11. Nigel dictates tweets to Dan Dukes. 12. Nigel has a powerful lawyer behind the scenes who keeps files on people. 13. Nigel is vicious - the plastic sheen is a facade that cons so many people. 14. No idea if Nigel actually has any morality or values or what he believes in except fame and money. @RupertLowe10

In British politics, leaders come and go... however, there's been one constant at Downing Street - Larry the cat