“Natoor” because the word is “Nature”, but in French.
Ever since I did a post here mentioning the plan for a Disneyland London, Twitter has been regularly Twittering me a picture of this new Disneyland building in Paris:
“Stay at Les Vlllages Nature.”
I like the look from above of this Thing, and I especially like how it would appear that you can walk to the top on the outside, Snøhetta style. But it doesn’t look very Natoor.
Here. Nine seconds of video.
An Other creatures posting, not just because it’s a parrot picking human teeth, but because the human teeth are those of a Fox.
Indeed:
That was photoed by this blog’s setter-up Michael Jennings, last month, in Los Angeles. Presumably these cars were for some sort of movie or TV show. Whenever you see cars being carried about in lorries like that in London, that’s why they’re doing it.
I missed this photo when MJ first put it up at his Facebook site. But I encountered it more recently when an email incame, alerting me to another MJ photo. I liked that one, but then I scrolled back through all his recent Facebooked photos, and liked the above photo even more.
That’s what Newcastle language teacher Mike Metcalf tweeted about the sign in this photo:
Quite right. Are we Satan’s Brainwashed Cattle? And must we wake up? Or are we supposed to wake up a flock herd of Satan’s Brainwashed Cattle, in the event that we encounter such a thing? Either way, I would have thought that it would surely be better for Satan’s Brainwashed Cattle to remain slumbering.
I don’t know where this photo was photoed.
Charlie Waite hits the photographic spot for me hits the photographic spot for me:
(Again.)
Verticals. Horizontals. Excellent shadow. Symmetry. Beautiful blue and grey and white colours.
A commenter comments:
Any thoughts on cropping out the bird in flight altogether.
Question mark. Well, there’s nothing to stop you doing that if you’d like to. I tried it. Yes, quite nice.
I did a Charlie Waite twitter search. Reommended. Not the same as his mere twitter home.
Here.
When Boris Johnson appointed Dominic Cummings as his behind the scenes shouter-in-chief, I started to hope that things had taken a turn for the better. I continued to fear the worst, but stopped assuming it. After the Cummings appointment, the air was thick with claims that he was a Satanist, but then it all went quiet. Presumably after Cummings had shouted at everyone then mentioning him to stop mentioning him, if they didn’t want to be set upon by Satan. But I didn’t forget. I knew that Cummings was Satanising away, behind the scenes.
So, when a link to this story at the Telegraph showed up on my Twitter feed, I clicked, hoping against hope to be able to read the whole thing. As it turned out, I was only able to read the top few paragraphs, but I got the bit that mattered to me, which was the Dominic Cummings angle:
They were the lifelong Labour voters on whom Jeremy Corbyn was supposed to be able to rely – even if he failed to sell his vision to a new market.
But to Dominic Cummings and Isaac Levido, the masterminds of Boris Johnson’s landslide victory, they became known as “persuasion ones”: a category of voter whose allegiance to Labour had been profoundly shaken by Mr Corbyn’s leadership and his party’s involvement in blocking Brexit.
Ultimately, the identification and targeting of those voters helped cause an electoral upset that shocked even some of the Conservatives’ most senior figures.
The phrase emerged from some of the most intensive use of focus groups and polling ever seen in a UK election …
I’m sure there will soon be much more to read along these lines.
From Matthew Parris (The Tories will win – but with no thanks to the North), on the other hand, there may be a rather thoughtful silence for a while.
Will this be the first election to see a “shy Labour” factor? How many voters are embarrassed to admit that their hostility to Brexit, or their tribal anti-Toryism, trumps their concern for their Jewish fellow citizens?
Scary times, for every political obsessive in Britain. Because every political obsessive, me included, is terrified that their preferred tribe will lose.
Time for another photoer photo, which I envy because I didn’t photo it myself:
Apparently this photoer is using a Galaxy Note 10. Here’s hoping he doesn’t burn his fingers.
I liked this tweet in response.
Photoed by me this afternoon in Warwick Way:
November 4th was quite a while back, so maybe it’s all been sorted by now. Hope so. But if not, sounds like he needs the help of somebody younger, with social media expertise. I googled “Arthur Colley lost diary” and got lots about another Arthur who lost a diary, but nothing involving any Arthur Colley.