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[personal profile] redbird 2023-05-15 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
The article about that "super sewer" talks about how few Londoners ever get close to the River Thames, and remi9nded me that I made a point of doing so, when my mother and I were visiting Greenwich. The tide was low enough that we went down a flight of stairs to a mud flat. We saw a grey heron down there, which I added to my (somewhat lackadaisical) birding life list.

Not a usual tourist stop, I know; we also went to the old Greenwich observatory, and I watched the ball drop announcing noon.
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[personal profile] redbird 2023-05-15 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we arrived by boat, did some of the tourist stops, and then walked under the river and took the DLR and then the Tube home to my mother's flat in Finchley. I don't think she'd been to Greenwich before that (having moved to London several years earlier), but was mostly happy to go with visiting family and friends to whatever we wanted to see, because we could talk happily on a boat to Greenwich as well as in her flat.
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[personal profile] cellio 2023-05-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)

That thread about the divorce fail is beautiful. Good for her and for that judge!

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[personal profile] melchar 2023-05-16 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking that myself. Just ... wow.
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[personal profile] agoodwinsmith 2023-05-16 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the Russian analysis.