by JMB…

(This post was meant to pop up yesterday but I munged the dates, to the where in the world posting was a stop-gap as it was late and I was jet-lagged. It’ll do for now though.)

I spotted this in Leeds recently on the back of a building in Vicar Lane.

The building is very 30s judging from the style and it probably had Crittall metal framed windows originally.

That is a very substantial metal-framed ladder cemented into the wall for the purposes of correcting it twice a year. (Maybe it needed winding once a week).

Here are a few bits and pieces that have caught my eye recently:

• Bradford Odeon Rescue Group have announced plans for a scheme that refurbishes rather than removes the building: (click to enlarge)

• Vanity Fair do a feature on the Egyptian Cinema fad of the ’20s
• The lights go out in Adelaide,
• Several Blogpowerers risk a Fatwah, but Liveleak reluctantly takes it down with a statement
• Guthrum gives a very personal view of the BA/BAA Fiasco
• Nation of Shopkeepers discusses Simpsons & Marxism
• and finally- Welshcakes gets us to puzzle over a bucket with a lemon in it.

Sloth!

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
Hat tip- DK

“Grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence, and type up the 3 following sentences.”

But he also returns to the issue of writing off what is unfamiliar: “Leaders have a tendency to write off things that are outside their realm. In the old days, you had the expression ‘loony left’ and with it you threw out both the good and the bad. Basically, you were dismissing anything you did not comprehend with throw-away lines.”

There is a powerful warning in this.

Beyond Authority

Leadership in a changing world

Julia Middleton- Common Purpose

As seen all over the place. (The meme, not the book.)