Bricks and other matter

Lorra hard surfaces

• Building Marino Garden Suburb 100 years ago
  
• Yellow bricks of London  - lingo: soldier courses, headers, stretchers
• Grangemouth (swirly Lego) bricks
• Neolithic stone carving: spirals vs cup&ring [as R]
• Deciphering (and making) rock art
• Oatly vs Big Farma
• Six years ago Mr and Mrs Lipton were denied [€250] compo for a delayed flight. This week, 5 prime ministers later, the UKSC found in their favour.
• Freshers' Week 1978 - all a long time ago, but still 5 years after my time [I R olde]
• Guerrilla freeway signpainter LA edition
• Books in briefs
  
• The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians ostensibly by James "famous author" Patterson but actually 60x 5-10 min pieces-to-camera about the power of sharing and distributing books. Call me sentimental but I was choking up about ever 15 minutes. Also anger-inducing tales of librarians and their books being cancelled by the Republican Right in Texas
  
• Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Prof Charles "psychologist" Spence & Heston "cookie" Blumenthal describes experiments which help explain how all our senses address and filter the food we eat. Should be my jam, but I was worn out by the self-congratulatory tone before I'd finished listening. Up-market restaurants can charge big bucks by compelling clients to wear headphones while eating - so clever, so what?