I think I prefer WWVD. (What would Vicky do?)

The pet I’ll never forget: I lost my mum, career, livelihood and hope – but Bertie the cat was determined to fix me He was found under floorboards and it was as if his humble beginnings gave him extra empathy. When people around us died and I became homeless, he gave me a clear purpose

Very moving.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This feels like a punch to the stomach. I used to visit every trip to Newcastle and buy CDs. So sad.

Smithfield and Billingsgate: Meat and fish markets to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.

Just saw this news. A terrible decision.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I'm sorry to hear that Howard Hughes has passed away. Our paths crossed when I worked for LBC. He was one of the good guys. This podcast is worth listening to.

Nine hours and 52 minutes: did Dave Strachan’s ambulance wait cost him his life? When he woke up with chest pains, his wife, Lucille, called 999, expecting help to arrive in minutes. But as he drifted in and out of consciousness, their wait continued ...

This is heartbreaking.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

‘That damned kitchen!’ How the inventor of the fitted kitchen eventually saw it as a curse Her splashbacked, single-surfaced, cubbyholed, foldaway paradise revolutionised kitchen design. But Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky grew to regret her world-conquering creation

This is an interesting story on the positive and negative effects of designing something earth-shatteringly meaningful.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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