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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Flowers in a Chinese bowl. By French painter Jacques Linard, whose day is today.

Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s this house that people might have thought of when reading an article titled “Jealousy” in the newspaper De Westvlaming in September 1872 about a “young underpastor” and an “English lady” shut together long into the night for a “confession”.

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve written about Gezelle’s relationship with complicated neighbour “Lady” Lucy Smith that resulted in him being parachuted to Kortrijk to save his reputation cobblesandgables.substack.com/p/the-lady-a...

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The "lady" and the priest: a note on a scandal

Bruges, 1872: debt, drama and the fall of a priest

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Guido Gezelle’s house on Verversdijk 20 is up for rent, so (again, thanks to estate agents) we get to look around an historic Bruges property

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"To challenge wholesale an autistic person's account of the facts of their life can therefore amount to something considerably more invasive than ordinary fact-checking: it can become an assault upon the narrative structures through which that person understands who they are." Worth your time, IMO.

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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media

After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh. Wow. An excuse to stay cosy!

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The casual way in which Godelieve is being strangled by her own scarf makes you wary of your cupboard

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Oh that looks good for sure!

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Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Control panel at Brouwerij de Coureur, Kessel-Lo, Leuven

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians

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Join the crowd digitising Jeremy Bentham | Letter

Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sint-Annarei 19 in Bruges is up for rent which means we get a rare chance to nosy around this historic house – home to influential English expats like Mary Constantia Clifford, and to the English girls' school. Huge garden for central Bruges!

Victorian era drawing room with large windows and wooden floor

Walled garden, large, gravel paths, trees

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 08/08/2026

Today is Duodi the 22nd of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate capers. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fortune teller & her fascinating friend the fool in his striped hat. Like him a lot! By Lucas van Leyden, whose day is today.

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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'd recommend! There's a lot packed into it – not just the vessel itself which is beautiful but nice historic seamanship in the photos and details such as the traditional rope work. Surprise hit for me!

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So good. I had the phrase "bilge pump" swirling around in my head for the rest of the day

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A good clamber around the Mercator in Oostende today

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The police intervened, but ultimately the school was brought under control by senior figures from the English colony – including a former commander of the 20th Hussars. The colony closed ranks, and the events passed – like so much of what happened in the colony – unnoticed by the Bruges press.

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In April 1888 boys at the English St Laurence School in Bruges rioted, breaking dozens of windows of this building and covering the walls in graffiti. cobblesandgables.substack.com/p/bruges-sch...

Tall Victorian era building, a former school overlooking a canal in Bruges

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, the current exhibition on his time in England is so interesting

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gem of a little museum on the outskirts of Bruges – built by and filled with the art of Constant Permeke.

Four photos of the Permeke Museum interior and grounds – modernist sculptures, African art, oils, 1920s building

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What Bruges politicians are arguing about this week – we only have 50 swans currently, which puts us below the 52 needed to keep off a (likely fake) mediaeval obligation put on the city after Bruges citizens beheaded Maximilian's enforcer Pieter Lanchals in the market place.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Perfect accuracy in European firefighting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well, this has tipped me over into serious worry about the decline of Britain because how far have we strayed that Rum & raisin is at 5%, a mere 1% ahead of pistachio. Lament, for all is lost!

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Supper here was brown coconut rice, salmon with a glaze of sweet chilli and lime, carrot and cucumber salad and peas because I forgot edamame and actually peas are fine

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

fennel with sausage is so good

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. - Raymond Chandler, Farewell, my lovely born on this day, 1888 #RaymondChandler #BookSky

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Alas, no! Pataks is about their limit. But for adult palates it was a pretty good week day curry

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The chicken curry that was in this month's Good Food magazine – in my ongoing quest to find a curry my kids will eat that isn't out of a jar. Cauliflower rice (me), basmati rice (them). Banana ice cream from the great Da Vinci's Gelateria!

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026