#James Barclay of London

[jonfarreporter]

A Persian Carpet is A Sustainable Carpet

In our increasingly ubiquitous disposable-item high tech culture, a Persian rug seems like an out-of-place antique. Yet for the “sustainability-conscious” a Persian carpet is not just a treasure it’s an investment.

“You are buying more than just a rug, said Ataullah Khoja, you are buying a work of art alive with the stories of the region and the people who make them.”

Khoja was in town during the past weekend of Sept 15 at the Sonoma Valley Women’s Club on First Street, East selling dozens of some of the most opulent Persian rugs available.

Owner of Access Rugs - Hand-knotted Rugs, Inc. of Berkeley, Khoja explained. “family owned and operated business. For the past 22 years, we have been collecting a wide variety of hand-made rugs, from Central Asia.

“All of our products are hand-made and authentic. And, each has it’s own cultural value,” said Khoja.

The main entrance as well as the reception hall of SVWC was filled with some of the most exquisitely made rugs.

“It is our desire to help promote and preserve our cultural heritage, said Khoja as he ignored a call on his cell phone to answer a few questions as The Sonoma Index-Tribune stopped by on Monday to take a look. Even the porch outside the Women’s Club was covered with Persian rugs; passersby couldn’t miss it.

Operating as a direct rug importer and rug supplier, Khoja and his family-owned company has had the privilege of working with many businesses across the country. In addition to providing his customers/clients with exceptional hand made rugs, Khoja also provides rug services.

And that includes rug cleaning and rug repair. “It has been an important part of our operation,” said Khoja.

Emphasizing the “investment” aspect to a Persian rug as art, according to James Barclay of London, who also deals with Persian rugs, it’s value is in the craftsmanship and authenticity. As he and his team notes the appeal of Persian rugs the world over, Barclay said.

“As rug specialists, our business here in London is built upon traditional methods of hand cleaning and hand repairing fine and antique rugs, carpets and tapestries as well as carefully sourced products that are akin to the original materials used when your rug was made.”

“This not only retains the authenticity (even with imperfections) of your rug, said Barclay but also assist the rug to keep it’s value, look and feel from when it was originally made.”

Pointing out the longevity of Persian Rugs, the BBC reported in 2017 that the ‘Pazyryk carpet’ discovered in Siberia in the 1920s is the earliest example of one of the oldest Persian carpets, dating as far back as the 5th Century BC.

With Sonoma being able to produce some of the most delicious wines, a Persian carpet in a tasting room would certainly be a nice addition with considerable cache and panache for the status-conscious.

Yet as Khoja said enthusiastically of his business and company. “We will continue to be that source of knowledge and education from that part of the world, with it’s rich history and culture.”

Buying a Persian carpet from Khoja is making a connection to skilled artists, craftsman and artisans that make works of art that will last beyond one’s lifetime. If that isn’t sustainability at its best, what else is?

“Today, Monday is our last day here in Sonoma until next year” Khoja said. “But I invite anyone who wants to know about Persian rugs to visit me and my shop in Berkeley,” he said.

To learn more about Persian rugs or to find out when Khoja will return to Sonoma, visit his company’s website.

[museszm]

In anticipation of the game tonight here’s a poster I made for it

[pernillecfcw]

Prepping for the London derby 💙💪🏼

[chelseajackarmy]

CHELSEA

WSL CHAMPIONS 23/24

BLUE IS THE COLOUR!!!!

[arsenal-womens-1]

The footballers diary

19/11/22 

 

Today was like any other match day. I woke up showered, got ready, waited to be picked up from my apartment. Training was normal, so was the bus ride. Everything leading up to that moment was normal. It was extra time. I was near the goal. The only thing I saw was Beth and Hannah Blundell both running towards the ball. Out of nowhere, Beth dropped her knee in her hands. Pain was written across her face. 

 

20/11/22

 

I woke up to the sound of my phone blowing up and picking it up. The first thing I saw was the first text Vivian sent. 

 

Viv: Beth wanted me to tell you all that they did some tests and she has ruptured her acl. 

 

2:23 am 

 

15/12/22

 

Its been exactly 27 days since Beth did her acl todays yet another home game. I didn't start the game a few seconds into extra time from where I was sitting. You couldn't see what happened. Lyon plays run into a group hug and the fans cheer. The match restarts. Viv gets the ball, passes it to lotte, who then passes it forward to Lia. Three Lyon players close on her and get the ball. Viv goes for it and tries to knock the ball a way from the Lyon player. She falls straight to the floor. Lia passes the ball to Katie. She must have seen. She passes the ball back to Frida. The ref blows her whistle. 

 

16/12/22 

 

It was like deja vu. Only this time it's a text from Beth. I opened my phone and clicked on the Arsenal group chat. 

 

Beffy: Viv asked me to text you all she doesn't know how to tell you all. so she asked me to text and tell you all that she tore her ACL last night. 

 

18/4/23

 

Tomorrow is match day, and I'm scared. A lot of the girls are it’s like this team has some sort of bad luck in under 4 months. It's the World Cup, and everyone is scared that they will be next. 

 

19/4/23

 

Match day nerves ran through the team we were playing in a 4-3-3 i have no clue what happened i had just been sent off less than 5 minutes before for a tackle on ella toone  it was a shit tackle i know but she was pissing me off i was in the changing room when i heard the sound of football boots 2 horse after it was confirmed leah had ruptured her acl im scared im going to be next 

 

1/5/23

 

What the actual fuck? It has been 13 days since Leah did her ACL. I just got the text confirming that Laura has ruptured her ACL. What is happening? 

 

5/5/23 

 

I just got the call from Sarina Wigwam asking if I would like to go to the World Cup. Of course, I said yes. 

 

22/7/23

 

We played Haiti, and we won 1-0. Georgia scored the goal. Apart from that, there's nothing much to say today. 

 

28/7/23 

 

We played Denmark today, and we won yet again. 1-0 lj was the one to score. In other news, I saw a kangaroo today. A few of us made some tiktoks and went for a walk. 

 

1/8/23 

 

We won 1-6. I'm tired, so there's not a lot to say. 

 

16/8/23 

 

Forgot about this. Sorry, we won today 1-3, which means we are going to a final. I can't wait. 

 

21/8/23 

 

Well, we lost, Spain won. I dont know what happened. All I can think about is the pop. I knew what it was the second I went down. I have had it described to me a thousand times. Now I am sitting here on the other side of the world in the same place. Four of my team members have been Why did it have to be me?

[molliemoo3]

Can't wait to see how pissed Nick looks on the championship trophies podium

[thursdaygrl]

ok i have saved some drafts but it's up in the air whether i'm keeping all of them. for right now i'd like some new things so like for a one liner from one of the muses under the cut!

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[scotianostra]

On June 27th 1967 the first cash dispenser was opened by Barclay’s Bank in Enfield by actor Reg Varney.

The idea of an automatic money dispensing machine had been mooted and tried without success in the early 60's but it wasn't until Scotsmen John Shepherd-Barron and James Goodfellow successfully designed the "cash machine" and Personal Identification Number (PIN) technology which is still used over 50 years later.

Goodfellow lodged his patent in May 1966, more than a year before the first cash machine was ceremonially opened in a blaze of publicity. A machine was developed by John Shepherd-Barron, who was born in India, to Scottish parents, and lived much of his later life in Portmahomack in Ross-shire.

Shepherd-Barron's ATM beat Goodfellow's machines, which were installed at branches of Westminster Bank (later to become NatWest), by just a month.

So Shepherd-Barron became known as the "man who invented the cash machine" and not Goodfellow, the man who patented the system we use today.

Shepherd-Barron says he was inspired by chocolate vending machines, he stated "It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash.

The two devices were very different.

Shepherd-Barron's did not use plastic cards, instead it used cheques that were impregnated with carbon 14, a mildly radioactive substance.

The machine detected it, then matched the cheque against a Pin number.

Shepherd-Barron worked for banknote manufacturer De La Rue, which never patented its machine.

Before he died in 2010, he told a documentary that he didn't patent the idea because he did not want fraudsters knowing how the system worked.

He also said that the chief executive of Barclays had been quick to say yes to the idea when they had discussed it after a couple of Martinis.

Shepherd-Barron then had to go back to his team and get them to develop his idea.

In recent years, his claim to have been the real inventor of the cash machine has been recognised more widely.

Mr Goodfellow now does not like to talk about the years in which Mr Shepherd-Barron got all the credit but in a 2009 BBC documentary he said it "really does raise my blood pressure".

The engineer, from Paisley, told BBC Scotland: "My patent was licensed by all the manufacturers. They thought that was the way to go.

"The race to get it on to the street was not as important.

"Getting it right was the answer, not getting it first."

Mr Goodfellow was working as development engineer for Glasgow firm Kelvin Hughes in the mid-1960s when he got involved in a project to design a machine that could dispense money to customers when banks were closed.

He said in an interview that the driving force for the move was unions putting pressure on banks to close on Saturday mornings.

He said most people worked during the week and could not get to the bank, which closed at 3pm on weekdays.

Many people went to the bank on Saturday mornings but the unions were pressing for staff to work a five-day week.

The banks wanted a way to give working people access to their money when they were closed. Goodfellow said "The problem with cash machines was access.

"How would a genuine customer, and only a genuine customer, get money out of it?"

They considered biometrics - fingerprints, voice prints or retinal scans.

"But in the 60s the technology to do this was not there, it was impossible,"

So the next approach was an "exotic token", a piece of paper or plastic with "uncommon characteristics" that a machine would recognise.

His "eureka moment" came when he hit upon the idea of the Personal Identification Number (PIN).

This was the vital security measure that would make the system work, the number would be known to the customer and the bank and could be related to the card but not read by anyone else.

Goodfellow's invention was patented in May 1966, more than a year before his rival unveiled the first ATM in London.

But he still had a battle to make his concept reality.

"We had to meet some of the banks demands which were pretty severe," he said.

"They had a million customers and they wanted 2,000 machines across the UK.

"They wanted any one of the one million customers to be able to access any one of the 2,000 machines.

"You've got to remember there was no IT network in those days. The banks had no IT equipment. The bank's branches had nothing.

"We spent a lot of time developing the code. We had to submit something like 1,000 of these cards to a consultant, who would try to decipher it."

The cards he used were one quarter of a "Hollerith" punch-card, which just happens to be the same size as today's credit card. It contains just 30 bytes of data.

His patent for the card and Pin ATM was licensed for millions but Mr Goodfellow, as a humble technician, did not own the rights and did not get rich from his invention.

He said he signed patents for 15 countries around the world and got a dollar for each - worth about £10.

Mr Goodfellow left the firm in 1967 when it moved its operations to England and he went to work for IBM.

There have been arguments for years over who should officially go down in history as "the inventor of the ATM".

In 2005, Mr Shepherd-Barron received an OBE in the New Year honours list for services to banking as the "inventor of the automatic cash dispenser".

However, since then Mr Goodfellow, the man who patented the invention, has regained his place.

In 2006 Mr Goodfellow received an OBE for services to banking as "patentor of the personal identification number".

He has also been placed in the Scottish engineering hall of fame alongside John Logie Baird, the inventor of the television.

According to the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA), as of 2015, there were close to 3.5 million ATMs installed worldwide. However, the use of ATMs is gradually declining with the increase in cashless payment systems.

[freeuselandonorris]

i am literally dying at you speaking to james barclay after writing d/s rpf fic of him😭😭😭 would love to know more details

hahahaha oh god so i’ve posted about this before but god knows what i tagged it with to find it again.

due to a series of genuine misunderstandings and being stood in the right place at the wrong time, at the london eprix last year myself @zeraparker and @lost-decade were mistaken for employees of jaguar land rover and taken on a group tour of the pitlane and jaguar garage, with an introductory talk by james barclay. we did not realise we had been assimilated into the group of actual employees until it was too late. it was one of the funniest and most stressful experiences of my entire life. thankfully mitch and sam didn’t appear too or i would have fully died on the spot.

@formulatrash, who was also in the pitlane for actual legitimate reasons and was very confused to see us there, took some incredible photos of us trying to hide in the back of a group photo that we had no right to be in and could not access as it was posted to some sort of internal JLR whatsapp group. i won’t post those (funny as they are) because there’s lots of people’s faces but here’s a photo of mitch’s car half-naked instead

[grandmaster-anne]

Court Circular | 15th February 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King held a Council at 4pm. There were present: the Rt Hon Melvyn Stride MP (Acting Lord President and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions), the Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP (Secretary of State for Health and Social Care), the Rt Hon Gillian Keegan MP (Secretary of State for Education), the Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, the Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP and the Rt Hon Lucy Frazer MP. The Rt Hon Dame Sarah Falk was sworn in as a Member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP took the Oath of Office, kissed hands upon appointment and received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office. The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP took the Oath of Office, kissed hands upon appointment and received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP took the Oath of Office, kissed hands upon appointment and received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. The Rt Hon Lucy Frazer MP took the Oath of Office, kissed hands upon appointment and received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport). Mr Richard Tilbrook was in attendance as Clerk of the Council. The Rt Hon Melvyn Stride MP had an audience of His Majesty before the Council. The Rt Hon Sir Clive Alderton (Principal Private Secretary to Their Majesties) and the Rt Hon Sir Edward Young (Joint Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty) were in attendance. Later, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury) had an audience of The King. By command of His Majesty, Mr Alistair Harrison (Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps) called upon His Excellency Mr Sebastian Mateo Corral Bustamante at 3 Hans Crescent, London SW1, this morning in order to bid farewell to His Excellency upon relinquishing his appointment as Ambassador from the Republic of Ecuador to the Court of St James’s.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, today carried out the following engagements in Wellington, New Zealand: Her Royal Highness this morning called upon the Rt Hon Christopher Hipkins MP (Prime Minister of New Zealand) at the Executive Wing, New Zealand Parliament Grounds, 40 Bowen Street, 1 Molesworth Street and 1 Museum Street, Pipitea. The Princess Royal subsequently visited the National Crisis Management Centre at the Executive Wing, New Zealand Parliament Grounds. Her Royal Highness later visited the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro. The Princess Royal, Colonel-in-Chief, Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals, this afternoon attended a Reception at Government House to mark the Centenary of the Corps. Her Royal Highness afterwards attended a Service of Remembrance and laid a wreath at the National War Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, State Highway 1, Te Aro. The Princess Royal this evening attended a Dinner at Government House.

[justforbooks]

The only thing an A&R man needs, Seymour Stein once said, was a good pair of ears. Stein, who has died aged 80, might have added indefatigable enthusiasm, a streak of opportunism and a shrewd business brain, all of which he deployed in a career that saw him sign the deals that launched the careers of Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, kd lang and many others.

Those artists enjoyed their first hits on Sire Records, the label Stein co-founded in 1966 and with which he remained synonymous even after his company had been absorbed by the Warner Music group. By the time he stood down in 2018, unhappy with corporate politicking, Stein’s achievements had long since earned him a place among the finest “record men” – as they were known – of his generation.

“I have no easily definable skills or talents. I’m a hit man, a record business entrepreneur,” he wrote in the introduction to his autobiography, Siren Song, in 2018. He played no instrument and had no technical knowledge, for which he was ultimately grateful, believing it might have got in the way of an appreciation of artists who could not be judged by conventional musical standards.

The story of how Stein acquired the US rights to the then-unknown British band Depeche Mode for his label typified his modus operandi, based on instinct and energy. One day in 1980 he picked up the latest issue of a British music paper in his New York office and read about a new group signed by a UK contact, Daniel Miller, to his Mute Records label. On a hunch, he grabbed his passport, booked a ticket to London on Concorde, and went straight from the airport to meet the group in Basildon, Essex, their home town, an hour’s drive east of London. “I signed them on the spot,” he remembered.

Their subsequent success made them one of a string of British bands whose records he released in the US. When his rivals called him an anglophile, it was not always, he recalled, meant as a compliment. But it was British musicians, from the Climax Blues Band to the Smiths, who provided a bedrock for his business.

To sign Madonna Ciccone in 1982, he summoned the singer to his bedside at the hospital where he had undergone heart surgery. Having listened to her demo tape, he offered the 24-year-old $45,000 for three singles with the option to release an album. Going on to sell more than 60m albums in the US alone while helping to reshape feminism for a new generation of young women, she was his greatest success.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dora (nee Weisberg) and David Steinbigle, Orthodox Jews whose own parents had emigrated from Galicia, the region of eastern Europe straddling Poland and Ukraine. His father was employed in Manhattan’s garment industry while his mother worked at her family’s market in Coney Island.

A heart murmur in infancy kept him away from sports at Lafayette high school, where he discovered that he preferred applying his prodigious memory to Billboard magazine’s charts of current bestselling pop records than to his lessons. The love of music was kindled by listening to the records brought home by his older sister.

During a summer holiday he talked his way into an internship at Billboard’s offices on 47th Street and Broadway. It was there that he met Syd Nathan, the myopic, asthmatic, choleric boss of King Records, the label of James Brown, based in Cincinnati. In 1961 Nathan suggested that he shorten his surname and offered him a job, asking, “Do you want to be a spectator or do you want to be in the game?”

It was at King that Stein learned, from the ground up, how the record business really worked. His knowledge would be expanded while working for George Goldner, another old-time record man, at the Red Bird label, where the Shangri-Las and the Dixie Cups were the hit acts.

There he met the songwriter and producer Richard Gottehrer, with whom he founded Sire, each putting in $10,000. The Climax Blues Band, Barclay James Harvest, Matthews Southern Comfort – all from the UK – were among early successes, along with an album by the Dutch band Focus, before the pair began releasing their own self-recorded albums from 1970.

After Gottehrer had left the label in the mid-1970s, Stein and his wife Linda could be seen patrolling the New York clubs, scouting a new generation of local bands. They were quick to pounce on the Ramones, with their two-minute blasts of brattish attitude, and the cooler art-school rock of Talking Heads. From the UK came Echo and the Bunnymen, Soft Cell, and the Pretenders, whose American singer, Chrissie Hynde, was impressed by Stein’s extraordinary recall of lyrics old and new.

As well as continuing to sign emerging acts – many of them from the UK, such as My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin and Everything But the Girl – Stein also played a significant role in the later careers of established stars. Brian Wilson’s eponymous first solo LP was released on Sire in 1988; the following year Lou Reed’s artistic momentum was revived by the first of a series of Sire albums, titled New York.

While on a constant search for new music, Stein used his fortune to eat well and to collect art and antiques, including The Siren by the pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse, which he sold at Sotheby’s in London in 2018 for a reported $5m. In 1983 he helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2005.

He and Linda Adler were married in 1971, shortly after she had recovered from the shock of his announcement that he was gay. Their formidable and often turbulent partnership, which also produced two daughters, was ended by divorce after seven years. Samantha, their elder daughter, died of cancer in 2013. Stein is survived by their younger daughter, Mandy, and by his sister, Ann.

🔔 Seymour Stein (Seymour Steinbigle), music industry executive, born 18 April 1942; died 2 April 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[pernillecfcw]

Hahaha LJ is so chels 💙💙

[chelseajackarmy]

Lauren James and Emma Hayes

Player and Manager of the Month representing Chelsea FC Women

Pride Of London

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

The good, the bad and the ugly of the confinements of “Love Again” film during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Something is not romantic if someone breaches his duty.

It seems the author of this article and editorial assistant of PEOPLE Digital, with a focus on entertainment, has forgotten America’s Covid-19 Protocols in her industry to compare the pandemic’s situation during this interview.

Therefore, the author did not pay attention or didn’t care to know how Sam, aka COVIDIOT and his companions breached the COVID-19 regulation, resulting in a breach of the British Film Commission’s obligations and guidance of the UK government during Love Again filming. Also, Hollywood film and TV productions adhered to COVID safety requirements like social distancing, mask-wearing and frequent testing. Did she forget her own situation?

It is worth noting that not only “Love Again” was filming in the UK during the pandemic other productions resumed on Brit shores including Warner Bros’ The Batman, Netflix’s The Witcher, Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion, Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Mission: Impossible 7 by Paramount Pictures was also shot in the UK 🇬🇧 None of the previous productions talked about or blames the Covid-19 pandemic during the shooting except Love Again’s lead actors, who constantly choose this topic to justify the film's drive over reality.

Love Again Shooting 🎥 Principal photography was shot in 2020 and ended in early 2021, when the entertainment industry was still trying to return to normality. Filming early took place in London, under strict COVID-19 restrictions, followed by the Delta COVID-19 outbreak

The results of the video below strongly showed that the confinement did not have a significant and negative impact on the happiness of the actors and the film’s director when analysing the determinants of late-night dinners in the video. Love Again, Actor Sam Heughan Talks about Dinner Parties And Karaoke Nights. 🎤 Well, breaking the rules, late night parties weren’t on the filming set and not part of the film. PCJ and her husband NJ, Sofia Barclay, SH and Director James C. Strouse, they had the inability to adhere to the stay-at-home policy.

The UK production sector had a comprehensive set of coronavirus safety protocols, with the British Film Commission (BFC) published its guidelines following wide industry consultation.

The UK government had endorsed the publication of the guidelines step forward towards got the cameras rolling safely again. The 34-page document, titled Working Safely During COVID-19 in Film and High-end TV Drama Production.

⚠️ BFC's Working Safely During COVID-19 in Film and High-end TV Drama Production guidance had to reflect changes to the Tier system in England and to guidance on protecting people who were at higher risk.

UK body ScreenSkills was implementing training courses to help workers get ready for being on set in the post-coronavirus reality. The release of guidelines publication document from a combo of British broadcasters and producers, which goes into detail on nine key considerations. These are:

Omid Djalili

"No" to Social Gatherings During COVID-19. Here's what they didn't consider when getting together for karaoke parties and dinner parties 🎤 in the middle of a pandemic. Other people than members of the same household were not allowed.

SH took an unusual selfie with a face mask and shared it on the social media platform gallery.

Sam Heughan and Sofia Barclay

James C. Strouse- director without face mask 😷 The director was also responsible for ensuring that the actors fulfilled their obligations related to health, safety and well-being at work.

This is what you call working closely with a director, who attended an illegal lockdown party in London, their actions are not defended in the UK the video reveals details of illegal alcohol-fueled parties in the Love Again crew. The bubble in the UK was for filming, not late-night parties.

Filming first took place in London, after which production moved to the United States. Meanwhile shared hugs with part of the crew members, SH is completely inconsistent. This somewhat contradictory effect is increased his principle to show off himself is applied strictly.

Sam's obligation to do something did not include violating those duties during the pandemic. In this situation, disobeying a duty would cause harm to another person, becoming contaminated by his negligence. The lockdown parties were illegal, including the karaoke party, so he would have been penalised by the police and the production fined for breaching BFC and UK government restrictions on Covid-19 rules which Sam cannot say He didn't know.

SH’s late-night parties, drinking culture, a "failure of leadership" in Jim Strouse’s film Playing Apart Together: During the lockdown, while the rest of the country was living under strict rules on social mixing.

Nick Jonas promoting his new brand, Villa One Tequila during a Karaoke party.

This karaoke party was during the Christmas season. Families who lost loved ones during the pandemic will be "sickened" by this kind of Christmas party held during that’s year's Covid restrictions.

The Covid restrictions operating at the time banned such events. Covid rules were broken, and how to explain how party-goers complied? adding that video is a “completely wrong message" to the entertainment audience and public.

Remember the message "This Christmas it's vital that everyone exercises the greatest possible personal responsibility."

Its guidance for the Christmas period specifically said: "Although there are exemptions for work purposes, you must not have a work Christmas lunch or party, where that is a primarily social activity and is not otherwise permitted by the rules in your tier."

London at the time was in Tier 3 and the law banned gatherings of two or more people indoors unless it was "reasonably necessary" for work. Was a Karaoke party a necessary reason?

It is clear actors and director were having complete disregard for the UK Government advice and rules. They should have Locked them in for full quarantine for two weeks. Just to be safe.

‘Shame on them'

#COVIDIOT

[wearelondonhq]

(ray) welcome to london, DONNA SHERIDAN! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like LILY JAMES? well, no matter, we hear that you are 25 and working as a PERFORMER. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from MAMMA MIA and have a tendency to be FREE-SPIRITED as well as RECKLESS. (( pls can i switch out lydia from beetlejuice? )) (ray) welcome to london, ANDY BARCLAY! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like RAFAEL SILVA? well, no matter, we hear that you are 30 and working as a COUNSELLER. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from CHILD'S PLAY and have a tendency to be DETERMINED as well as TORTURED. (( can i switch out clear from final destination?? )) (ray) welcome to london, LOGAN NELSON! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like JACOB ANDERSON? well, no matter, we hear that you are 35 and working as a MEDICAL EXAMINER. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from SAW and have a tendency to be INTELLIGENT as well as VENGEFUL. (( can i switch out sarah from labyrinth pls )) (ray) welcome to london, TESS MARSHALL! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like TAHIRAH SHARIF? well, no matter, we hear that you are 30 and working as a HOTEL MANAGER. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from BARBARIAN and have a tendency to be THOUGHTFUL as well as RESERVED. (( pls can i switch out america chavez from marvel )) (ray) welcome to london, ANNIE JANUARY / STARLIGHT! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like ERIN MORIARTY? well, no matter, we hear that you are 29 and working as a PRIVATE DETECTIVE / 'SUPERHERO'. we also hear that you currently HAVE SOME OF your memories from THE BOYS and have a tendency to be CARING as well as OUTSPOKEN. (( pls can i switch out maya from the strangers? )) @daydrcamings

— WELCOME TO LONDON, annie january, tess marshall, logan nelson, andy barclay, donna sheridan! you look very familiar, do we know you from somewhere? anyways, take your time settling in because whether you want to or not, it looks like you’re going to be living here for awhile! // welcome ray, please be sure to follow our checklist here! **lydia deetz, clear rivers, maya lucas, america chavez, sarah williams are reopened!

[thursdaygrl]

i've saved some drafts from when i was last on here but for now i'd really like to write some new things. i'm putting a shortlist of muses to select from below and you can like this for a one liner starter ♡

apollonia serafini, 19, lesbian (closeted), she/her, amanda fix fc

arlo guerra, 21, straight, he/him, jordan gonzalez fc

aurelio ferrante, 21, bisexual, he/him, simone baldasseroni fc

dove velazquez, 19, bisexual, she/her, jenna ortega fc

elias stratford, 30, lesbian, they/them, e.r. fightmaster fc

ford hadley, 49, straight, he/him, norman reedus fc

grayson rhodes, 34, straight, he/him, glen powell fc

james knight, 28, lesbian, she/her, missy peregrym fc

joseph greene, 23, straight, he/him, owen teague fc

letha barclay, 26, bisexual, she/her, jaz sinclair fc

luther olander, 26, straight, he/him, valter skarsgard fc

quinn zhang, 19, bisexual, she/her, lola tung fc

river im, 24, lesbian, she/they, london thor fc

ronan paynter, 23, straight, he/him, bryn chapman parish fc

orpheus ‘sully’ sullivan, 26, bisexual, he/him, mike faist fc

warner oakes, 22, straight, he/him, christopher briney fc