Christian Algar

@ceebarnacles.bsky.social

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By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊

Espadrilles
Crocs
Salt cod in a pan ready to be soaked.
Signpost for Grantham in its rail station in the north of england. It has a surrounding celebratory notice ‘the home of the woodland trust’
Detail from a printed book sale catalogue.
Book cover of Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms. An engraving of a male figure walking across fields reading a book with a windmill in the background. This represents an ‘ordinary’ miller from Italy whose story Ginzburg traced in 16th-century archives and tells a story of a fiercely independent literate miller whose reading defied authority and norms.
Advert for a vacancy at Huntington for curator of early printed books with BIG 💰💰💰💰
Screenshot of ‘AI’ ‘inspired - ‘connected searches’
Black and white photograph of a man smiling. He is wearing a naval Petty Officer’s cap, stood on board a ship in the English Channel during the Second World War.
Woodcut of an old person.
A plate of food - falafel, breaded chicken, chips, salad, hummus, and pitta bread
Well behaved boy stood next to a fucking great big wooden barrel of wine.
Cat napping on floor in corner of room
An Arsenal football shirt hung in the window of a house.
A stand with football stickers in a supermarket.
A stockpot with chicken and vegetables on a stove top.
A male ‘patriot’ / Rupert Murdoch lookalike - wearing t-shirt with a bulldog on a Union Flag, with a zipper round neck blue jacket with a Union flag and a cap with crossed St George’s and Union flags. He is smoking a rag and giving a thumbs up.
Lots of stupid flags out front of a house
Photograph of the writer, Émile Zola from the late 19th century. He’s got a beret on and pince nez
List of book (novel) titles
A happy man
David Raya, holding his arms aloft, as befits the best goalkeeper in the world of football (‘soccer’ if you Americano)
A row of books, spines and titles showing, on the wooden surface of a desk in front of a window looking out to a garden
Book cover of ‘Medieval Heresy’ by Malcolm Lambert
Keir Starmer on the phone
Orange cat alongside the screen of a laptop with an image of a an historical book sale catalogue showing a listing for a rare earl English book called ‘Beware the Cat’
Pen and ink illustration of a woman stepping out with a black flag held aloft (by Clifford Harper)
Illustrated front cover of the book with a blue that evokes the Atlantic and an illustration of Edward Long’s Jamaican plantation. The scene includes enslaved women working amongst canes.
Detail of a manuscript catalogue of books with an entry, summarised: Brevis historia trium Magorum ex sacris literis et probatis ecclesia scriptoribus collecta , in gratiam verae putatis amantium … 4to // 4 leaves r.l. Cologne, Joannes Burchius MDXCVII
Soft toy / puppet - a kind of pink hippo from U.K. children’s tv show, Rainbow 🌈
Screenshot from BBC News announcing a planned film of The Odyssey.
Screenshot advertising a cinema screening of the film ‘Amélie’ for its 25th anniversary
Cafe bar on a street corner in Fécamp, Normandy, with an eye-catching sign in a kind of retro style fat and bold font.
Cheese from Neufchâtel, wine from Quincy, knife from the drawer.
Rob Yates smiling for a photo by the Lido sign at Cliftonville / Margate, wearing a white jacket and green rosette
Garden in the sunshine
Meme of recent election results announcement in Gorton, Manchester. The defeated Reform UK candidate, Matt Goodwin (aka Badlose) is login on as the Green candidate gives her acceptance speech; there are two images of Goodwin with thought bubbles, the first saying ‘The Bots can’t vote, the second ‘but they could write my book’
A bottle of beer