Hello, 

Yeah, it's late. Sorry about that. Perhaps you can enjoy these with your tea tonight or save til the morning with your coffee? Or maybe save for another day when you need a bit of a break? Anyway, up to you, and on your terms. I had a little too much going on last week and didn't prepare these in advance and also ran out of energy on Friday night. Instead we had a delicious shrimp and lobster tail boil from dectaur which if you haven't tried it yet you really should. Not a sponsored link, just delicious food! My good news story of the week was my 99 year old Grandmother receiving her second dose of the vaccine. She's still moaning about all the 'old people' in her retirement home though. 

As Douglas Adams once wrote...

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by

Well I'm never that chill about deadlines but hope you can forgive me this one time. The 'occasional' is in there to give an excuse sometimes. Anyway, enough inane chat and to the links my friends. 

The link thing I did last week looked a bit gross in terms of formatting - if you're bothered about where a link is heading maybe mouse over? I'll always try and go to the original source though. Sorry Guy. 

Metro life in post-Soviet countries

Photographer Tomer Ifrah travelled between six post-Soviet countries, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia, documenting city life on the metro, beginning in Moscow in 2012 and continuing until 2019. 

Delightful photography for your eyeballs. 

The road to electric is filled with tiny cars
Forget Tesla. Tiny cars are the future. Great article and lots of cute pics of tiny cars too. 

The cars look, variously, like small Range Rovers, golf carts, trolley cars, or rickshaws with sheet-iron sides, and they are slow. Their fundamental attraction is their price — between $600 and $2,500 — and that drivers can charge them the same way they would a cell phone.

Cartographic art by Matthew Rangel​
Beautiful composite drawings from hiking through mountain ranges.

Under construction / tobebuild.archi
A delightful Tumblr site. If could exist just taking pictures of construction sites all day I would be a very happy man indeed. I love that raw beauty of it all. Shame most of it gets covered up in the end. You can view by decade and collections too. Via Present & Correct. 

This guy has positioned himself perfectly so anyone passing has to say hello​
Your dog link for this week. x
Oh go on, here's another. 

there’s a man on reddit who edits paddington into a movie every single day
Delightful. Reddit link.  

My Co-op milk round, 1978
Wonderful pics of a world gone by. I used to have a Sat job delivering milk with Jerry. I earned £2. We delivered to Camilla Parker-Bowles (big house now owned by Nick Mason). Years later Mum revealed that it cost her more in making bacon sandwiches for myself and Jerry than I earned. I always spent my money on a bottle of 'gold top' - Jersey milk. Delicious on cornflakes! Original source.

Reindeer Cyclones are a real thing

a swirling mass of  threatened reindeer stampeding in a circle making it impossible to target an individual

Looks like CGI in many ways, but completely real. 

Big Boat Stuck in the Suez Canal was the narrative we needed
It really was. And I miss it. My favourite WhatsApp group with two pals was renamed in its honour. Absolutely what we needed! And also a good Wired article on the logistics of getting the thing out. This Twitter thread also lead me to this amazing video of Dutch salvage operations and how they rescued a sunk container vessel. 

Soviet ADU-1000 Pluton complex deep space antenna
Who doesn't love a good deep space antenna? Hmm? Well this one is a good one. Via the ever fabulous Irène DB. 

Ok, that's all for now. Hope you have a fabulous weekend and get some rest. I love you more than you can ever know. 

Love as always, 

Andy x
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