Solidarity

Another new piece of Shona Hardie art - a case where, as she put it on social media - images can speak louder than words. Another neighbouring image in the extras. I continue to find it hard to follow the news on Ukraine.

Another day with floods of stuff, although I managed my long spinning class and a walk out in the middle of the day to get this blip and pick up a can of kidney beans in the supermarket so Mr A could make a (delicious) chilli. Around 5.30pm on a Friday every week comes a relief. The flood stops, or slows to a trickle, for about 60 hours. Time to breathe. In this case, eat chilli, drink red wine, and watch a film (Ammonite) and a documentary (about the 2018 Zimbabwean election). Maybe we are showing our age, or we’re just a bit old fashioned, but we both separately felt that the sex scenes in Ammonite were a bit overdone.

In other news, I noticed as I walked back up Bonnington Road that we have one of the same new “erections” as they do down by The Shore. However, the fact that it was covered in posters for cultural events gave me a clue as to what it is. It’s a Litfaßsäule, a column (Säule) named after Ernst Litfaß, who invented it. We have no equivalent English word.