#sink england.

[maranello]

if you want to make F1 an exclusively British sport you should just say so instead of acting all like you’re a global sport when really the only thing global about what you do is the money you’re willing to take. in THAT regard I can truly see how international Formula 1 is willing to be

[hobohobgoblim]

[c-kiddo]

all tories have died. badly. unfortunately instead of celebrating we have to acknowledge that labour is in charge now and that we need to kill keir next.

[ladyinfierno-art]

"He's a pirate, I don't want to associate with him."

[pfhwrittes]

I saw a poll on @gemmahale ‘s blog asking about how common garbage disposals are (or something similar, my brain is a beautiful sieve and I’ve already forgotten) but it got me thinking.

In the UK, I don’t think under sink garbage disposals are a thing? I could be wrong but as someone who has lived in several different houses (and has had my head under a countless number of kitchen sinks), I’ve only ever seen one. It was broken as to boot, so never used.

So that’s something for non-UK fic writers to be aware of I guess.

[georgefairbrother]

This is the second in our occasional series featuring luminaries of stage and screen with a strong personal or professional connection with Northeast England, inspired by @robbielewis. This time, Edward Wilson (1947-2008).

Edward Wilson was born into a South Shields mining family in 1947. He performed with the National Youth Theatre and aged 19, formed his own company, the South Shields Youth Theatre, staging their plays at the local Pier Pavilion.

According to his obituary in The Guardian;

"…The local press raved, while stern-faced local Labour mandarins wondered if the radical ideas on their stage were too dangerous. "Kitchen sink drama" had arrived, and so had Ed Wilson…"

He attended Manchester University, and continued acting and directing at the NYT, for which he was artistic director from 1987 to 2003 (or 2004, depending on the source). He also demonstrated a talent for business and administration, successfully negotiating major corporate sponsorships and Lottery funding to ensure the NYT’s ongoing viability.

On television, he had a major role in 35 episodes of the 1970s working-class family saga, When the Boat Comes In, as Billy Seaton, a radically minded, newly qualified doctor working in impoverished pre-NHS Tyneside communities. Billy Seaton's complicated and often combative relationship with Seaton family friend, capitalist chancer Jack Ford (James Bolam), was an ongoing theme that brought out some intense and compelling performances from both actors.

Edward Wilson was one of the few original cast members to return for the final, fourth series in 1981, where the action largely shifted away from Tyneside, and explored left-wing politics surrounding the Spanish Civil War.

Other television appearances included the historical dramatised documentary series, Fall of Eagles, as Russian revolutionary Julius Martov (with Patrick Stewart as Lenin and Michael Kitchen as Trotsky), and a regular role in the 1980s police drama, Rockliffe’s Babies.

In 2004, he went to work in the US as the director of the Los Angeles Young Actors Company, was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, and passed away in 2008, aged 60.

By all accounts he was extremely well loved and respected by the actors he had discovered, mentored and directed during his time at the NYT, including Daniel Craig, who provided ongoing financial and practical assistance during his final illness.

The Independent:

"…Ed Wilson did not merely select the members of the NYT during his time there – he championed each and every one, and retained an interest in them long after they had left the company. A noted wit, he was as clever as he was stylish, and he had an undoubted genius for friendship. When tragedy or bereavement struck, he was magnificent, and he would move mountains to help a friend in need..."

See also, John Nightingale, fellow alumni of the National Youth Theatre;

Sources: the Independent, The Guardian, IMDb

[stokesy55]

SCREAMS IN BROKES 😭

[justasightseer]

Back again with my bestest boy(s). This one is dedicated in part, to Alfred×Uhtred, the most iconic and influential relationship in the show. I personally don't ship them romantically, but their dynamic is so electric that I can see why many do.

To The King and his Lionheart, to Head and Heart, to Brains and Brawns 🍻

Also, isn't it absolutely INSANE that this is the first time they touch hands??? These men have known and cared for each other for TWO DECADES and this is the very first time???? That they hold hands?? And it's only for a few seconds???? I mean, I'm not the touchy-feely type myself but male culture is actually ridiculous 😭

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1912 – The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage with the loss of 1,513 souls, many of them Irish; 732 would survive.

Just before midnight on 14 April, the RMS Titanic failed to divert its course from an iceberg and ruptured at least five of its hull compartments. These compartments filled with water and pulled down the bow of the ship. Because the Titanic’s compartments were not capped at the top, water from the ruptured compartments filled each succeeding compartment, causing the bow to sink and the stern to…

[simptasia]

charlie pace isn't just a pom. he's from the saddest breeds of poms

[pavanwalvekar]

what we see depends mainly on what we look for!

~ Egham, London

[mars-ipan]

UGUUGUUGGGHGHGHGH (<- annoyed)

[spatterdots]

Okay, so, the other day we had this plumber guy come in and do the necessary tune ups in my Grandpa’s apartment so we can put it on the market.

All we needed was for him to install a new faucet for the bathroom sink. My mother and I are sorting through clothes in the adjacent room when he goes in to start work on the sink.

THIS guy starts moaning and groaning like he’s in debilitating agony, and we’re like, “Are you good?” And he goes, “Oh yeah it’s fine, plumbers just make noises like that” and he continues on with the groaning all the way up until he’s finished.

I have been thinking about this ever since, and I will admit I googled “plumbers moaning normal” with little to no result. What the fuck? Why was he making those noises, who taught him plumbing and to scream like he got his leg cut off when he’s installing a new faucet?

[head-post]

Details of Sicily yacht incident

Divers were searching for six missing people, including British technology tycoon Mike Lynch, who were on board the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily during a storm.

Specialist cave divers, in 12-minute underwater shifts, were searching for six missing passengers and crew members on Tuesday. The yacht Bayesian was carrying a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers when it suddenly sank near a Mediterranean island around 4 a.m. on Monday. One body was recovered and 15 people survived.

Fire and rescue officials said six people believed to have remained in the hull of the sailboat would be considered missing until they were found among the wreckage.

Italian civil defence officials believe a sudden and severe storm that hit the Sicilian coast in the early hours of Monday caused a water tornado at the very spot where the 56-metre (184-foot) British-flagged Bayesian vessel was moored. Karsten Borner, the captain of another yacht moored nearby, found a lifeboat with 15 people, some of whom were injured. They brought them aboard their yacht and alerted the coastguard.

Rescue services reported that the wreck rested at a depth of 50 metres (163 feet) about half a mile off the shore of Porticello fishing village.

Missings and survivors

In June, Lynch was acquitted of all charges in a US fraud trial related to the $11bn sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. However, Lynch still faces a potentially huge bill stemming from a civil case in London that HP largely won in 2022. The amount of damages in that case has yet to be determined, but HP is seeking $4 billion.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah was reportedly among those missing. His wife, Angela Bacares, and 14 others survived. One of Lynch’s US attorneys, Christopher Morvillo of Clifford Chance, and Morvillo’s wife, Neda, went missing on Tuesday, according to the civil protection agency.

Jonathan Bloomer, non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife Judy are also missing. One body was recovered on Monday, identified as a flight cook.

Charlotte Golunski was among the survivors. She said she lost her one-year-old daughter Sofia in the water for a moment, but then managed to grab her and hold her above the waves until a lifeboat inflated. The father, identified by ANSA as James Emslie, also survived.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry stated that the Dutchman, whose identity was withheld for privacy reasons, also managed to survive.

More details

Sicily has been languishing in a heatwave this summer, and a panel of UN climate change experts says the Mediterranean Sea is particularly vulnerable to climate change, with the rate of warming about 20 per cent higher than the global average. Experts say it is extremely rare for a luxury sailing yacht of this size to capsize due to weather events.

Skip Novak, a lifelong sailor who has taken part in multiple round the world yacht races and written books about sailing, said:

“This just doesn’t happen. You know, boats sink because things like keels fall off, or they run aground and breach the hull … whereas just from a weather angle, a boat that big being pushed over on its side is absolutely extraordinary.”

When you’re at anchor, even if it’s blowing with a storm in the Mediterranean, you rarely shut the whole boat down because nobody expects something like this to happen. So if the boat wasn’t completely watertight at the deck, you’d have flooding going in. It would take a couple minutes and that would be it.

As the search for the missing continues, authorities have already begun trying to reconstruct an accurate picture of what happened. Prosecutors in the Sicilian town of Termini Imerese have launched an investigation, as is usual in such cases, even when no suspects have been identified.

The British Marine Accident Investigation Branch said four of its inspectors were on their way to Palermo.

Read more HERE

[glrlafraid]

i actually can’t stand this country why is the weather here so inconsistent

[rivertalesien]

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