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Agreed, that was a big thing. But long ago now.

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Might just be chance but I think more of them are unlocked and looked after by non-churchy communities

And it's undeniably fascinating, like learning code.

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But generally I'd guess it's something to do with our need to find symbols of security and permanence in troubled times

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It's not generally a faith-based thing though politics come into it, e.g performative high Anglican churchgoing by right-wingers

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One thing I did not see coming was the big revival in interest in UK church architecture, previously a niche interest haha. Loads of books on it now, a raft of experts on tap, it's having a moment. I'm glad, but puzzled. What's caused this?

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Frank Muir described them as 'made out of stout Bacofoil'.

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Nor did the original 2CV have an Allegro-style Quartic steering wheel as this does, though I quite like that

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm at a lecture at Ally Pally on the pre-war years of television.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always could spot a winner! But live in a crypt? No thanks.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I tried to explain the basic premise of Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' to two friends from Paris. They remain none the wiser.

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How could I have overlooked Hoodmould and Squinch?

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Names for an architectural comedy-song double-act? I'll start: Spandrel & Mullion

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Did the BBC use that adjective?

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Duille @duille.com · 28/08/2026

On this day in 1833 The British Slavery Abolition Act was passed freeing more than 800,000 enslaved people across the British Empire. Abolition Teapot. Josiah Wedgewood. c.1770. Image: BMAG. Wedgwood was a lifelong anti-slavery activist.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yes I know. I've had two journeys so far on the 810s, both trouble-free so I count myself lucky. Liking the extra space.

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We Brits call the seaway between England and France The English Channel. The French call it La Manche ('The Sleeve'). Nobody's bothered.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's crazy. Have you had the thing where you have to go onto the university payroll as an employee as if you were a tenured professor or something, even if all you're doing is giving one guest lecture? That is byzantine AND really confuses HMRC.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This was exceptional. Not usually this bad for me.

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Smart new train from mid Derbyshire to London St Pancras this evening, 140 miles in 100 minutes. Getting home from St Pancras by troubled tube and bus and finally on foot, 4.3 miles in 60 mins.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,' said the late Dolly Parton. I'm sure a ringing tribute to her will be delivered by the U.S President.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not recorded but assumed to have been drawn by the two sons in the practice, Banister Flight and Herbert. They would presumably not have cut it themselves.

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Banister Fletcher and his son wrote what is effectively the architects' Bible, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, now in its 21st edition. I came across this stone on a gatepost of Wren's St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in the City of London, recording something else they did.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My Mum (working class family) also called it Elevenses. But she'd got used to the officer class in the wartime RAF so it could have come from there

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When IS teatime in America? I expect that the tea will be iced.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Third in the Clacton by-election after Toadface and Binface was, interestingly enough, the Rejoin EU party. Only a few hundred votes, but comfortably more than Laurence Fox's Reclaim effort, limping in sixth behind a couple of independents.

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think it's the best thing he's done

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Did you see Nathan Coley's In Memory, the tiny cemetery?

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Our Sunday afternoon: a 60s Mod version of The Barber of Seville by Opera Kipling in the theatre above the Gatehouse pub in Highgate. Complete with psychedelic drug scene and a burst of Kinks amid the Rossini. And why not? They're on tour operakipling.co.uk/performances/

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's not this, it's that. No (....) No (.....) Just (.....), doing (.....). Sometimes, it's enough to (.....) And then (.....)

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wise. I could add: 'Depleted water supplies were not reserved first for AI data centres'.

Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I would much rather not have heatwaves and droughts but on the plus side our London fig tree, which normally produces a lot of leaves but little else, is fruiting like heck this year and they are SO delicious

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Re the complaint, no case to answer if I remember my long-ago NCTJ 'libel law for journalists' course correctly. That is surely 'vulgar abuse', as allowed in English law.