Chris Kendall

@ottocr.at

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Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | über-woke net-zeroist neo-luddite chatteratus | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity

An ice cream shop in Sheringham, Norfolk, with a display ice cream cone tipped in red
title page of Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch with a handwritten message by the author saying “For Chris for help with Latin”
me outside Canadian Parliament wearing an Ultra Remainer shirt
Road sign at the entrance to Binham, Norfolk
David Owen looking bemused
John Kendall and Christa Heller met on the Harwich to Hoek van Holland ferry in the mid 1960s. He was a young Englishman embarking on a solo adventure around continental Europe; she a young German au pair returning from her job in London to see her family on their farm near Stuttgart.
Mail: NADINE DORRIES: I'm so afraid I plan to lock up my cottage, return to London - and stay there until Ann Widdecombe's killer is behind bars
Sheet of A4 taped to the wall, on the paper are four England flags, one on each corner, and the slogan “CUMe on England!!!” (sic)
Sevilla, 2012
First time I made this pattern, using the Eastern Jewels colour scheme
For legal reasons some of our programmes are only available in France and Germany whereas others are only available in Europe.
social media post by aaron.rupar WOW - Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte "You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain - things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
Dad as a young man in New Zealand
Photo selfie taken in the mirror of the lift at work, I am holding a coffee and some paper bags and my phone camera and wearing a short sleeved batik shirt which I bought on my last trip to Jakarta
Two Landrovers parked up waiting to board a ferry at Dover. The vehicles are ex-military by the look of it and sport Union Jacks, but the car registrations are Belgian.
a bluesky post: “Yeah the British Empire is fairly exceptional in that we seem much more willing to admit it existed and admit it, at best, may not have been perfect. Obviously it was a lot worse than that, but it's a start.”
text message: Today 19:21 Do you want to watch Ebola homes with me?! Enola!!!
Text reads HAPPY TREASON DAY COLONIAL PEASANTS, image of the Queen in. front of a Union Jack
An illustration from a Richard Scarry book
my iphone is plugged into the ipad’s isb-c port to charge
max seddon * @maxseddon Russian official: Brexit "separates Europe from Anglo-Saxons, i.e. the US. We'll have a united Eurasia in 10 years." facebook.com/boris.titov.92.. 07:20 • 24/06/2016
picked up the package from the post office, in a fetching FCStP totenkopf plastic bag
Photo of a packet of chips sprinkled with salt. Accompanying text reads (in Flemish): “The ultimate heat tip from the doctor: why a pack of chips [frites] with salt is good for you now”
A portable air conditioner unit on the upstairs landing with the exhaust hose out of a window
email from school: Hot weather letter Dear Parents and Guardians As you will be aware The Met Office have issued a Red Alert for the heat this week. As always the safety and welfare of our pupils and school community take priority. It is therefore, taking all this into account, that we have decided to make in person attendance at school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week optional.
The air conditioning unit in our main living space