Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"Looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition" - thanks for that it'll help me sleep tonight 😱 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#MadeInChelsea #PennEstate Not quite so glamorous after all ... 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Aalto www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comHome is where the jellyfish glows: Finland finally warms to nature-loving modernist Alvar AaltoHis egalitarian homeland used to harbour reservation against the architecture star. But with 13 new Unesco listings and a new exhibition in Helsinki, Aalto’s work is finally getting the recognition it... 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026To quote Conan Doyle HB is the dog that didn't bark in the night 011
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Did you know it before? I gather it had seaman's hostel on the waterfront urbantrawl.blogspot.com/2011/09/urbantrawl.blogspot.comUrban Trawl 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#PatrickLeighFermour comes to mind for related but different reasons 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026@channel5bluesky.bsky.social #Palin #Philippines What a missed opportunity, to travel to the land of the nicest people on earth, the most cheerful people you will ever meet and look only for the misery. I sailed with these wonderful people for years and they deserve more than this misery show. 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The elephant in the room is housing benefit at somewhere between 20 and 30 billion pounds annually into the pockets of private landlords and the Government has yet to address this despite complaining bitterly about much smaller sums being spent elsewhere 100
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Smallboats This is a stupid idea, the RM wouldn't shoot unless shot at and that isn't going to happen. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comFarage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claimParty leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 12/10/2026#ProfessorMichaelEdwards of #UCL died in early August. There is a page of thoughts and condolences for anyone who wishes to write something in his memory viing.com/v/rememberin...viing.comCelebrating Michael Edwards | ViingGroup gifts, made easy. One link, everyone signs. 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 12/10/2026IKEA had a 25sqm layout at the MetroCentre in Gateshead in 2017 I wrote about it here singleaspect.org.uk/ikea-35m2-fl...singleaspect.org.ukSingle Aspect Blog » Blog Archive » IKEA 25m2 and 35m2 flat layouts – MetroCentre – Gatesheadsingle aspect, dual aspect, back to back, back-to-back, backtoback, b2b, back2back, estate, estates, housing, council housing, social housing, housing typologies, core access, deck access, balcony acc... 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yawn. Ant Breach of Centre for Cities will love this. Alex Ely did a good job with the 2010 LHDG and we need to hang on to it and not let these money driven people build modern slums. I would have thought WFH would accelerate the need for more space or at least to maintain current standards... 010
Reposted by Single AspectJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The American tragedy. Twice over, Its response to war in Europe was hesitation followed by crucial involvement: now the world's foremost power is led by a latter-day Quisling, equal parts nasty & plain stupid www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comTrump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with RussiaUS president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war 13311
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Last time I was on here, last year, there was talk of the #MissingMiddle and perhaps these are an example 010
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'd give her a free pardon after what they've put her through but a punitive nation like the US would never entertain the idea. 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 08/10/2026@johnharris1969.bsky.social #Saxonvale I saw this and thought of you. "Selling off public land is a fraught business even for well-meaning councils. Under a 1972 law, public bodies are obliged to accept the highest price they are offered. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Sorry to hear ... 😬theguardian.comFree land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? | Phineas HarperA bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system, says writer Phineas Harper 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You've left me wondering what the firms that make staircases, window frames, and custom built kitchen units are called in that case. Perhaps they have a different name in Aus 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Life on the street in early 1970s London was so different then. The bus conductors, newsagents, ticket collectors on the railway had a certain stiffness you don't find today. I'm sure it all came from WWII and no doubt that collective nature drove their decisions when it came to public provision. 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I always come back to this back in those decades the country was still in a post war frame of mind and the council members had for the most part lived through the war either here or overseas. It was a mindset we have all benefitted from, and they are dying off now. At least that's the way I see it 100
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I found this some years ago, it might clarify things a bit. singleaspect.org.uk/doc/GLC_hist...singleaspect.org.ukElectoral History of the Greater London Council 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They clearly don't believe in building council houses and flats, still. 110
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Or a flute in the underground passages playing Bach's Badinerie, or a solo violin playing one of the Bach violin concertos. 010
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thank you for spotting the mosaics, they are one of the joys of 60s/70s buildings and when people complain about all the grey concrete of brutalism the mosaics are rarely mentioned. Park Hill has a few left. 010
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I guess that makes #ParknRide the large scale version 🤔 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I feel your pain. We lost #SteveBell from the @theguardian.com leaving only #MartinRowson as the best cartoonist and their replacements are simply not as good. All concerned with the over sensitivity of a certian Middle Eastern country with paranoid interests beyond its borders 110
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Of the three you quote re industrialise is going to be the tough one since so much has changed. Mining was always dangerous and the pits were becoming less productive decades ago with small pits closing through the 1960s. Shipbuilding went to the Far East they do it better and cheaper ... 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Objectively speaking I think the picture was about 200 lines which was lo-res and the tapes were a bit clunky. Sometimes progress is just a good thing. Smaller units with better picture quality is a good thing. 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026UK in the 1970s, and then in the 1980s is a fair comparison 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nice try but they're mine and I'll carry them privately until death 110
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The phrase was the official Latin motto of the County Borough of East Ham before it was abolished in 1965." says AI 010
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#NorthernIreland Two steps forward one step back www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 😱theguardian.comLoyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead as almost 30-year ban overturnedOrange Order march along Garvaghy Road scheduled to take place for first time in 28 years after injunction dismissed on appeal 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Profile banner shows the #PepysEstate from #Greenwich with Thames lighters foreground and the unaltered #AragonTower on the right where I lived for two years from 10/78 to 9/80. The attached sunrise image is the opposite view from the flat to Greenwich 000
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#70up Extraordinary programme and very moving. A swan song for the participants and in memorium for those who didn't make it to 70. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Like many observers my own life happens to have run in parallel with theirs which makes it all the more telling.theguardian.com70 Up review – a deeply moving conclusion for the 63-year-long TV experimentThe landmark documentary series looked like it was done for good – until one participant was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Asif Kapadia takes the helm for its most elegiac, thoughtful outing ever 020
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#KennethGrange #KenwoodChef www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...en.wikipedia.orgKenneth Grange - Wikipedia 010
Single Aspect @singleaspect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Those who dig holes for others will eventually fall into one themselves" as told to me by an Israeli in 1994 while working on an Israeli ship. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... What goes around ...theguardian.comIsrael facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plantsFive desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis 010