#left lion

It’s a simple enough mistake to make in Nottingham. You say to a mate with the faux confidence of someone who hasn’t got a clue what they’re talking about, ‘Meet you at the Left Lion’. Something that people have done for generations it seems. So you turn up at what you think is the Left Lion only to find your mate is conspicuous by his absence. You tap your feet, prowl moodily around the stoic…

Bromley House Library

Anyone intrigued by the previous post will love this article by Robin Lewis in Left Lion:

Celebrating its 200-year anniversary this April, Bromley House Library’s colourful history begins in 1816, when some of the great and good of the city founded it first on Carlton Street, then moving to Bromley House on Angel Row a few years later. The Standfast Library collection was bequeathed to the people of Nottingham in 1744 and housed in the Bluecoat School, but was getting little use, so this collection formed the basis of the Bromley House collection. This was all before the Public Library Act of 1850, when a ha’penny was added to the rates to pay for free public libraries. The life of a library in the nineteenth century was obviously very different to today. In 1832, the minutes of a committee meeting state that complaints were made and “high disapprobation” was felt about the repeated firing of guns and pistols in the billiard room. The Ladies Bible Society that met in the same building was presumably scandalised. In 1849 an abandoned baby was found in a back room, which led to a furious debate over where, precisely, the dividing line between the two parishes of St Peter’s and St Nicholas’ ran.

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Aries: As your life isn't quite working out the way you’d planned it, perhaps it's time to try to find the equivalent of turning it off and then back on again.

Taurus: The blessed arrival of a baby in your life would be greeted with a lot more joy if you could work out who it was that posted it to you.

Gemini: Sometimes all you crave is to relax in your pyjamas with a movie and a bottle of ale, but this week all you’ll want is six units of blood, clean bandages, a splint, and plenty of morphine.

Cancer: You say you wanna kiss my face? Well, I wanna kiss your face too. But if we get all face-kissy together then people will talk and our girlfriends will leaves us. So let's make sure we only do it when there is no one else around. 

Leo: Your dealings with the dark powers will be jeopardised when they get a little freaked out by how eager you are to behead all those chickens. 

Virgo: You’ll never be able to express your feelings for others properly, so take what comfort you can in your ability to express a need for more  chicken wings.

Libra: This month you'll inherit a bunch of great AV equipment and furniture fro  your neighbours, who tragically die when you go into their house, kill them and take all their things. 

Scorpio: People will say you’ve hit a new low even for you, which is depressing, as they clearly haven't noticed all the rubbish things you've done so far. 

Sagittarius: You hate people who use the phrase “We’re through the looking glass here, people,” but you’ll have to use it anyway this week when you and a bunch of people physically go through a looking glass.

Capricorn: This month is a terrible time for you to travel, start a new romance, or take initiative in business matters.

Aquarius: You finally give in to a persistent colleague's desire to, as he puts it, “Spread your legs wide open, throw your feet up on the mantlepiece, and really go to town,” but to your great dismay, there seems to be sex involved too.