• Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Alfie, 19:40 May 7, 2015

  Ditto Stella.

  And Alfie and Russell: ditto me. This election coverage is far nastier than the Thatcher triumphs of the will. I find it difficult to reconcile level of venom with the buttoned-up, more reticent British character.

  The Murdoch press has adopted their owner's head-kicking style with enthusiasm. Combine that with The Conservatives' pitbull strategist Lynton Crosby and you could say that Australian gutter politics has taken over.

  Whoever wins, the writhing and shrieking around having to negotiate and make compromises will clearly show that the art and intellect of British politics has been subsumed by a head-kicking brutality that has little connection with public service or representation of voters in a democracy, and everything to do greed for power and money.

  It will be interesting.

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• Capture: April Come She Will, 23:07 May 5, 2015

  

  There goes the neighbourhood (5m from the front door, which was a little disconcerting).

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• Capture: April Come She Will, in reply to JacksonP, 22:40 May 5, 2015

  Moody hues.

  Blue's hues

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• Capture: April Come She Will, in reply to Nora Leggs, 22:39 May 5, 2015

  Autumn clouds

  Silver fish-skin skies.

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• Capture: April Come She Will, in reply to Nora Leggs, 22:37 May 5, 2015

  

  Labyrinth! I love labyrinth-s.

  Had to find the Neil Dawson sculpture that was being shy in the fog. Black and white plus the highlights button revealed more than I could see. Those black sticks though...

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• Capture: April Come She Will, 13:43 May 5, 2015

  

  Silent, impenetrable fog in Latimer Square – and all of Town – yesterday about 9.30am. The Cardboard Cathedral is behind the ethereal Dawson sculpture.

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• Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, 00:34 May 5, 2015

  Thank you. I'm unable to say anything but that.

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• Hard News: Friday Music: The merry month…, 19:52 May 4, 2015

  Candice Milner is very good. Vote for this song.
  http://www.theaudience.co.nz/candice-milner/

  (Anyone who can make the song itself appear, please do. I cannot.)

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• Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Peter Alsop, 00:01 May 4, 2015

  Thank you for the video Peter.

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• Hard News: Friday Music: The merry month…, in reply to Ian Dalziel, 17:57 May 3, 2015

  people danced in the library!

  What's the world coming to? I can hear the hushed bustle of flowery smocks spinning.

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