Been thinking a lot about this scene tonight from Smiley's People. He was so striking as the silent Karla.
Vale Sir Patrick Stewart.
#OnThisDay 1982: Smiley's People was first broadcast. Pictured are Alec Guinness as George Smiley and Patrick Stewart as Karla. #TBT
Get thee to @bromleyfc
🚨🇮🇹 Breaking: Antonio Conte clarifies his future.
“My name has been linked with numerous clubs, but there are currently no negotiations at an advanced stage.
Following a wonderful and successful spell in charge of Napoli, I will take the time I need to consider how and when to return to management. It will be a carefully considered decision, one I will make when I believe the conditions are right.
I have read reports of financial demands and requests for full control that I have supposedly already made to the clubs mentioned, as well as reservations about what has been described as my “strong personality”. These reports are unfounded, as there is currently no concrete basis for such assessments.
Should a concrete opportunity arise, that will be the time to hold discussions with the club concerned and jointly consider the terms of a potential agreement, with due regard for both parties’ needs and the qualities and approach that define my work as a manager.
Until then, any assumptions about my demands and my professional future remain speculation and cannot be treated as fact”.
Watching North By Northwest for the umpteenth. Love the way Carry Grant gives up the whole 'acting' thing in favour of being cool. A lesson for us all.
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Maple colour, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #AutumnWeek
Football is a team game. If you care about the #Ballondor you don't understand it.
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My face hinge fell open and I couldn’t believe my looking blobs when I read that.
Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk bbc.in/4xVjrOf
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Jules Breton
The Song of the Lark, 1884
Breton painted a young farm worker at dawn. A lark sings. She stops. That's the whole story.
In 1934, industrialist Samuel Avery Marshall II tried to buy the painting and keep it in his private collection. But the Art Institute of Chicago raised the money at the last moment.
The painting America fell in love with.
Visitors queued for hours just to see it. It soon became one of America's favorite paintings.
When did you last stop to hear what others missed?





























