Expectations We’ll Struggle To Fulfil

This Blog is very pleasing, extensive and definitely not average, but quite chaotic. Home of the Crown Inn, Poplar-on-Tweaven. See also @fic-al for more fan fiction @thoroughali for all things random.

[weshallc]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ Heidi Thomas.

[noonefromknowhere]

It's a heartache...

[delgrosso]

Congrats to the fellas of the England sportsball team who somehow managed to put on an unlikely but ultimately successful defensive victory the likes of which have not been seen since Dunkirk or perhaps The Seven Years' War.

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Chapter 28/?

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an update!

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

some people care very deeply in their imagination. unfortunately, relationships tend to occur in reality.

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Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms announced as filming begins

The prequel series created by Heidi Thomas is set in Poplar during World War Two

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Chapter 27/?

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an update!

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Coming soon! #ihope 🤣

@weshallc #imsorry 😅🥰

[weshallc]

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Chapter 26/?

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an update

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Chapter 25/?

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An update!

[weshallc]

Watch out Europe here come the Mackems! ❤️🤍

[weshallc]

Helen George, Freddie Fox, Felicity Kendal & the cast of High Society 2026.

Let’s Do It on the One Show 🥰

15/5/2026

[modernism-in-metroland]

The menswear store Simpsons of Piccadilly was opened on April 20th 1936. Intended to showcase the DAKS range of trousers, the flagship store was designed by Joseph Emberton, and featured interior design by Laszlo Moholy Nagy. The building was built using a steel frame, engineered by Felix Samuley, although his initial plan to use welded steel fell foul of London County Council who told him to alter it. After the structure was finally put in place, a Portland Stone finish was added, inter set with five bands of horizontal windows.

Hungarian photographer and artist Lazslo Moholy Nagy, former professor at the Bauhaus and emigre to Britain from 1935, was commissioned alongside Gyorgy Kepes to design the displays and signage for the store, and he installed three aeroplanes on the fifth floor, in a bid to get the curious passersby into the shop. Much of the furniture and fittings was designed by Emberton himself, including shelves, storage racks, chairs and display tables.

Emberton’s simple but classic design has endured through various changes in retail design. Even in the 1960s, an advert for the brand would highlight the store's design as “spacious, light and airy”, calling it “London’s most modern store”.The building was listed in September 1970, and in 1999 it was converted into a branch of Waterstones bookshops, which it remains to this day.

http://modernist-london.weebly.com/blog/elegantly-modern-simpsons-of-piccadilly

Images from RIBApix

[weshallc]

My memories of Simpsons is my partner being proud to work for the store. He’d struggled to find work after leaving the forces, and somehow low key security for Simpsons just fit. These were happy times, living in London, I was a nurse and being able to meet up and afford a cup of tea or coffee together wasn’t a fantasy.

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[afellowgoodsir]

Which almost useless power will you accept?

Always knowing exactly what time it is

Being able to precisely date memories

Automatically knowing the legal first name of everyone you see

Perfect balance

Able to remember all of your dreams

Control of your body temperature

Slightly, noticeably bioluminescent

Voting ended onApr 4

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[paulinedorchester]

A question for British readers:

I enjoy looking at the BBC's feature "The Papers," but it's left me with the uneasy feeling that if I lived in the U.K., I'd have a hard time finding a Fleet Street paper to rely on. So I'd be interested to know:

Which of the following papers (and/or its web site) do you read on a more-or-less daily basis?

Daily Express

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Daily Star

The Daily Telegraph

The Guardian

The Independent

The I Paper

Metro

The Sun

The Times

More than one of these (please specify in tags)

Voting ended onApr 8

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