https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1647334724203937792?s=20

“Through death, scandal and resignation the Royal family is increasingly reliant on a few hard-working members, with Charles, Anne and Edward, doing almost half the work.

“We now need new working royals or will have to accept a Royal Family that is more distant from the people than at any time in the past 100 years.”

The King and Princess Anne are named as the “hardest working”, with the latter having a slight edge in the total number of UK-based engagements between 2012 and 2022.

The research is based on data compiled by Tim O’Donovan, a retired insurance broker who has recorded engagements listed in the Court Circular since 1979.

Civitas claims family members over the age of 70 are responsible for the greatest share of engagements and warns of a potential “shortage of royals”.

The Duke of Kent is 87, Princess Alexandra is 86, the Duke of Gloucester is 78 and the Duchess of Gloucester is 76.

It fears that the number of royal engagements could “shrink to barely 1,000 a year” over the next decade.

That's part I find most significant. Amazingly they don't call out Will & Kate directly.

Most of the article is written from the perspective of adding more working royals such as Beatrice & Eugenie, which is never going to happen. Also, someone goes on to say that Zara should be a working royal! As if!

But royal broadcaster Michael Cole disagreed, saying: “Slimming down the Royal Family is in tune with the tough times faced by millions.

“Never again will we witness more than 20 members of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham palace.

“The King knows instinctively this sends the wrong message. And he’s right.”

Beatrice, Eugenie, & Zara are never going to be working royals, and none of them want to be.

But the looming problem remains of the heir apparent and his wife doing almost next to nothing.

What does irk though is that (yet again!) The King is being scapegoated. If they’re looking over the last decade, shouldn’t this warning have been sounded to the late Queen? Also in that time there was also the matter of COVID lockdowns which restricted public engagements. I would respect this reporting more if it specifically called out William, now the heir apparent, who is definitely not carrying the weight due his station.

https://twitter.com/tmorrowspapers/status/1647334724203937792?s=46

I haven't read the full article yet, but some of this was always going to happen due to slimming down the monarchy.

The Year of Living Dangerously was released in Australia on 17 December 1982 (it was released in the US in February 1983).

Peter Weir and David Williamson adapted Christopher Koch’s 1978 novel, working from Koch’s initial screenplay (Koch claimed that he was responsible for %45 of the final film).

It was the first Australian film financed by a major US studio.

Wallace Shawn and Bob Balaban were both considered for the part of Billy Kwan before Peter Weir saw a photograph of Linda Hunt and approached her about playing the part.

I must admit it has been a while since I last posted anything here. However there are too many reasons to go into at this time.The main thing is I will try and post at least one shot a week for you to see. Like this one taken at an art gallery not too far from where I live. The camera was very new at the time and this is the one shot that convinced me that my decision was the right one, The work…