Owen Garling

@ojgarling.bsky.social

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Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

A picture of the Rock Family Tree for Manchester.
Bukayo Saka on a unicorn
George II Sitting on the birdbath.
The Parker's Piece monument - a slab of granite with words on it - setting out the rules of football.
A man playing guitar inside a bin.
A humourous seaside poster of a lady in a red swimsuit with the words 'I don't care twopence what happens. That's how I feel at Clacton-on-Sea"
A photograph of Egyptologist Howard Carter.
A picture of Tommy Cooper in his trademark fez with his hands looking like the tentacles of a squid.
A picture of a bottle of Kasteel Rouge Original 0.0%
A Daily Mail headline: Locals fear chaos on their roads as new £250 million train station opens with 1,000 bike spaces - but no car park.
Three Cambridge United players wearing their new third kit stood in front of the main gate of Trinity College, Cambridge.
A photo of a Kindle showing the title page of Joanna Pocock's book, Greyhound.
A sunset over a small cove with rocks on both sides.
A screenshot of an app saying that I am an Australian Rugby league player who played for Cronulla-Sutherland sharks.
A spitfire garden ornament with Iron Maiden written on the side and piloted by their mascot, Eddie.
Cambridge United's fourth kit. A joyous mix of colours inspired by a painting of Olaudah Equiano.
A picture of Kwasi Kwarteng pulling a slightly pained face.
A book advert for a crime thriller about Cambridge's coolest accountant. The river Cam has been rotated by 90 degrees and no longer flows past King's College.
A bee orchid in a patch of grass.
A picture of a Galapagos tortoise. I doubt it's these that are running round leafy south Cambridgeshire!
A doodle around the word Board Meeting. Primarily made up of repeated letters and words.
Full poem here: https://genius.com/Tony-harrison-them-and-uz-annotated
Cafetiere instructions: to disassemble the filter, hold the filter and unscrew the plunger anti-clockwise. When reassembling, make sure the flared edges of the filter are facing upwards towards the cotelydons.
A map showing the local authority divisions of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Large swathes of divisions are being won by Reform, with a streak of Green along the Waveney valley. Quite a lot of Norfolk yet to declare.
The cover of Where Troy Once Stood: The mystery of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey revealed. A book by Iman Wilkens.
Dark reddish purple tulips with jagged edges.
The cover of Jonathan Rose's The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.
Sign saying "please note, this is an accessible toilet, not an entrance to the pub"
A sign: "Please note, this is an accessible toilet, not an entrance to the pub"
The folk tune Blowzabella, my bouncing doxy, as collected by tune collector Frank Kidson. It's a 6/8 jig in G major.
Russell Square: green grass, trees just in bloom, blue sky
A Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: “To help councils provide public services like toilets we’ve made over £78bn available for council finances, with local leaders free to decide for themselves how best to spend the majority of this.”
Two wooden pints lying low in the water at the margins of the river Cam. The trees overheard are reflected in the water. The mood is elegaic.
The starting XI for Wycombe Wanderers in the Berkshire and Bucks cup final.
A picture of noseybonk NOT Angine de Poitrine.
A jug of yellow daffodils viewed from above with two red tulips included.
A stack of felled tree trunks of all different sizes.
A small, scruffy terrier standing over a very dead rat.
Fences divide spaces and opinions. For some, they are unnecessary barriers that curtail access to open spaces; but for others, they are essential structures that provide protection. Perimeter fences have long played an important role in circumscribing English parklands and these structures have always been contested. In line with calls for greater accessibility and inclusivity, some park fences have been removed or lowered in recent years. But many park users and park authorities want to retain or strengthen perimeter fencing, as they feel it protects people and environments. Given their significance, it is perhaps surprising that fences are not covered more in the literature on city parks and urban green spaces
White Emu loose Just driven past a white Emu running loose in the location highlighted below. [map of the area between Hadstock and Little Walden, Essex]
A romanesco broccoli. Green and pointy and mathematical.
The cover of Nitzer Ebb's Belief album. The words Belief and Nitzer Ebb 1989 written in white against a black square within a white square.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe wearing a floral dress and playing a triple humbucker Gibson SG with chonky tremelo.
A diagram of a Mandelbrot set produced by Google's Gemini