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Aww, we lost one of the great tv moms and a wonderful actress.....

June Lockhart, Lassie and Lost in Space Actress Who Was One of the Last Surviving Stars from Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 100

She was also known for movies like 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Meet Me in St. Louis'

By Victoria Edel and Nicholas Rice

https://people.com/june-lockhart-dead-lassie-and-lost-in-space-actress-dies-at-100-8621340?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=20001102-20251025&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-breaking-news_newsletter&utm_content=102525&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&campaign=15366907

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

andrewducker

One of these children won at Ticket To Ride: First Journey, the other...did not.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

poliphilo

This morning I spotted the first instance of the T**** Ballroom being referred to as The Epstein Wing. I trust there will be many more.

It is being suggested (but perhaps it's fake news) that the construction of the Epstein Wing is actually cover for the making of a new and improved nuclear bunker. I pass this on for what it's worth.

I have always thought that in the event of nuclear war, the last people to be allowed into the bunkers should be the people primarily responsible for bringing it about- which is to say the government, the diplomats, the generals etc. In societies with a code of honour it was expected that a failed leader would fall on his sword.

On a related topic (another titbit from the airwaves) it is being said Andrew Windsor is being offered a Palace in Abu Dhabi. Why anyone would not only want him as a neighbour but also offer to maintain him in the manner to which he's accustomed is beyond me, but there it is.

Who runs Abu Dhabi anyway?

Easy. His name is Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan. He's also President of the UAE. Ah, and here's a clue. He's a close "friend" and ally of the current US President. Might he be thinking it would be a friendly gesture to keep Andrew Windsor squirreled away in a beachside palace where journalists (who are discouraged in the UAE) will be unable to get at him? This is highly speculative, of course.

No, no no, this is not the T**** Ballroom aka The Epstein Wing but the Sheik Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Ain't it grand!

poliphilo

Ballrooms are in the news. Firstly there's the huge vanity project the American President is erecting over the grave of Eleanor Roosevelt. And secondly there's the affair at the British Museum.

The British Museum (which contains very little that is actually British) is a vast warehouse full of Imperial loot. It's new director had the wizard wheeze of inviting 800 of the world's richest, vainest and least self-aware people- many of the identifiably friends of Jeffrey- to come and disport themselves in a peculiar shade of pink among the ruins of the world's great civilisations.

The old East Wing was a serious building in which serious people did serious things. It's replacement is a frivolous building in which frivolous people will do frivolous things. The Museum is also a serious building full of serious things- and not intended to serve as a backdrop against which Mick Jagger and Naomi Campbell might flex their arthritic limbs. Frivolity is a splendid thing, but there's a time and a place.

What caused particular annoyance in the case of the BM's "Pink Ball" was the use of the Duveen Gallery- which houses the marbles from the Parthenon- as a dining room- for the penguin suits and the ladies in pink. Phedias would have been unamused- or simply bemused. Ditto Pericles. Ditto the modern Greeks who want the marbles back and housed in a gallery on the Acropolis where they will be treated as the foundation monuments of modern civilisation that they are.

The T**** Ballroom and The BT's Pink Ball: there is a distinct aroma of fin de siecle/last things/collapse of empire about them both.....

ysabetwordsmith

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice for safety?

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ysabetwordsmith

I made these tonight. They turned out very well. :D

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disneydream06

I have been thinking about picking up some extra groceries and dropping them off at the local food bank in Rochester.

I went to their web site to check out there hours and see if they had suggestion lists.

So imagine my surprise when I read that they no long accept non perishable donations from the public.
They only accept "cash".
They say it costs too much for people to do food drives.
Excuse me, but if I am buying food and dropping it off at your door, what the bloody hell is that costing you? :o :o :o

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/24/25 -- I planted 15 purple and pink mixed tulips in the purple-and-white garden.

10/24/25 -- I gathered seeds from sunflowers, zinnias, wild senna, and northern sea oats.

I saw a downy woodpecker industriously drilling insects from the dry stems of cup plants.

10/24/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

10/24/25 -- I did a more work around the patio.

10/24/25 -- I planted 8 'Purissima' tulips, 4 around the barrel garden and 4 in the tulip bed. These are white tulips with variegated green-and-yellow leaves.

10/24/25 -- I planted 15 'Ice Queen' giant snow crocuses in the purple-and-white garden. That completes the shipment from Breck's.

I am done for the night.

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Visiting the sunflowers made me see stories in progress.

Trying to sneak into the In Crowd

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andrewducker

1. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards: (tags:funny photos wildlife )
2. Scotland to get 8% of UK's fishing funding, despite landing 60% of its fish: (tags:fish Scotland UK money wtf )
3. Aerial Photos Highlight Beauty of Kazakhstan's Mangystau Plateau: (tags:kazakhstan photos )

poliphilo

I had a dream about the chap from whom I was anticipating trouble. He was smiling, in a golden glow, and he said "I have got my constitution back" and I thought, "Either he has regained emotional stability or he has died and gone to heaven."

As it turned out he was still alive and had decided overnight that he can find new meaning in life by alerting the world to the dangers of of AI. He used to be a player of sorts on the international stage and forgets that his influential friends have either passed on or will no longer take his calls. I think he might be happier if he resigned himself to being an inconsequential old gent living in an English seaside town but that's my mentality not his and if his illusions keep him happy why question them? At least he's still alive And it's not an ignoble thing to embody Don Quixote.

By the way, I'm chalking that dream up as precognitive.

Feverish illnesses of the kind I've been passing through, cause the veil to thin. It's the upside of them- and one could almost wish for them to hang around longer. I had very sharp colourful dreams last night, not quite lucid, but still more "real" than "real" even though they didn't exactly hang together. In one there was a garden enclosure that was all mine and full of trees and ever so lush grass, in another a nice little boy was asking me the meaning of the word "Hilversum" on the display of an oldtime transistor radio and in the third "we" were perfecting some sort of magical acrobatic trick involving eggs under the supervision of Ailz's mother- who was being much nicer and sweeter than she ever was in life. The eggs would somehow become kittens and the kittens were to be given to the babies who were trundling wheelbarrows around. Also the broken eggshells would turn into flakes of beautifully patterned enamel. I think what we were actually doing was helping human souls reincarnate, but this may be an interpretation too far....

ysabetwordsmith

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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Jpop and Jrock from Japanese music.

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disneydream06

Apparently they have completely destroyed the whole East Wing of the White House.....

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