Judith Larner Lowry, who founded Larner Seeds in '77, has just died. She turned her own land into a native California plant paradise & collected seeds from them to form her business, which is where I got the seeds to turn my lawn into something beautiful #bloomscrolling 🌱
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June 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Judith Larner Lowry, who founded Larner Seeds in '77, has just died. She turned her own land into a native California plant paradise & collected seeds from them to form her business, which is where I got the seeds to turn my lawn into something beautiful #bloomscrolling 🌱
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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
This is Professor Wendy Larner Vice chancellor of Cardiff University
"She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were paid £2.3m in 2023.”
Puts forward a plan to lose 400 jobs!
In what fantasy world are we living in, that says this is acceptable? FFS myn!
"She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were paid £2.3m in 2023.”
Puts forward a plan to lose 400 jobs!
In what fantasy world are we living in, that says this is acceptable? FFS myn!
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is Professor Wendy Larner Vice chancellor of Cardiff University
"She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were paid £2.3m in 2023.”
Puts forward a plan to lose 400 jobs!
In what fantasy world are we living in, that says this is acceptable? FFS myn!
"She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were paid £2.3m in 2023.”
Puts forward a plan to lose 400 jobs!
In what fantasy world are we living in, that says this is acceptable? FFS myn!
#WhatAView: 'Badlands' (1973), cinematography by Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner and Brian Probyn.
December 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM
#WhatAView: 'Badlands' (1973), cinematography by Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner and Brian Probyn.
We could all have a pretty great Tribute to Screenwriters Who Just Died triple-feature weekend and watch Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Candidate. Nobody would regret a minute of it.
RIP Alan Trustman and Jeremy Larner.
RIP Alan Trustman and Jeremy Larner.
March 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We could all have a pretty great Tribute to Screenwriters Who Just Died triple-feature weekend and watch Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Candidate. Nobody would regret a minute of it.
RIP Alan Trustman and Jeremy Larner.
RIP Alan Trustman and Jeremy Larner.
6/29/72: Michael Ritchie's The Candidate [W Jeremy Larner/DP Victor Kemper] w/Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Allen Garfield
Key #70s ending: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...
More:
Jeremy Larner: www.bkmag.com/2016/07/19/t...
Jason Reitman: www.dga.org/craft/dgaq/i...
Key #70s ending: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...
More:
Jeremy Larner: www.bkmag.com/2016/07/19/t...
Jason Reitman: www.dga.org/craft/dgaq/i...
June 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
6/29/72: Michael Ritchie's The Candidate [W Jeremy Larner/DP Victor Kemper] w/Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Allen Garfield
Key #70s ending: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...
More:
Jeremy Larner: www.bkmag.com/2016/07/19/t...
Jason Reitman: www.dga.org/craft/dgaq/i...
Key #70s ending: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...
More:
Jeremy Larner: www.bkmag.com/2016/07/19/t...
Jason Reitman: www.dga.org/craft/dgaq/i...
Illustration by Lucia Larner for Gibson Valentines. Published in Life Magazine, vol. 32, no. 5 (February 4, 1952), p. 73. Ad copy removed by me.
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Illustration by Lucia Larner for Gibson Valentines. Published in Life Magazine, vol. 32, no. 5 (February 4, 1952), p. 73. Ad copy removed by me.
Another local button, from the last cleaning batch.
And what a fabulous name 😊
-+- CLODD & LARNER - +-
-+- FRAMLINGHAM-+-
Will need to do some research on this one 😁
And what a fabulous name 😊
-+- CLODD & LARNER - +-
-+- FRAMLINGHAM-+-
Will need to do some research on this one 😁
February 22, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Another local button, from the last cleaning batch.
And what a fabulous name 😊
-+- CLODD & LARNER - +-
-+- FRAMLINGHAM-+-
Will need to do some research on this one 😁
And what a fabulous name 😊
-+- CLODD & LARNER - +-
-+- FRAMLINGHAM-+-
Will need to do some research on this one 😁
This is horrifying. Wendy Larner used to write about poverty, race, gender & globalisation. She co-edited a book in 2010 called *The Point Is To Change It*. Then she became Management...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cardiff Uni VC Wendy Larner implies “things like poverty have a genetic explanation”.
Cardiff UCU: “In the context of her vision for a more elitist university, cutting schools like nursing & favouring ‘higher quality’ students, the attitude indicated here is disturbing.”
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Cardiff UCU: “In the context of her vision for a more elitist university, cutting schools like nursing & favouring ‘higher quality’ students, the attitude indicated here is disturbing.”
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Cardiff University Vice Chancellor 'implied poverty is caused by genetics'
Martin Shipton A university vice chancellor who is leading a proposal to cut 400 jobs and close five Schools including Nursing and Music has been criticised for implying that poverty is caused by gene...
nation.cymru
March 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is horrifying. Wendy Larner used to write about poverty, race, gender & globalisation. She co-edited a book in 2010 called *The Point Is To Change It*. Then she became Management...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Pvt Bruce Larner, Co D, 5th Bn, RAR, waves in a UH-1D helicopter in Phuoc Tuy Province, Aug 1969.
Photo by 1LT Mike Loehrer, 221st Sig Co, via NARA
Digital restoration by erikthehistorian (erik villard)
Photo by 1LT Mike Loehrer, 221st Sig Co, via NARA
Digital restoration by erikthehistorian (erik villard)
June 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Pvt Bruce Larner, Co D, 5th Bn, RAR, waves in a UH-1D helicopter in Phuoc Tuy Province, Aug 1969.
Photo by 1LT Mike Loehrer, 221st Sig Co, via NARA
Digital restoration by erikthehistorian (erik villard)
Photo by 1LT Mike Loehrer, 221st Sig Co, via NARA
Digital restoration by erikthehistorian (erik villard)
Jeremy Larner, Who Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/m...
Jeremy Larner, Who Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Jeremy Larner, Who Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/m...
Jeremy Larner, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford-starring The Candidate, has died. He was 88.
Jeremy Larner, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter on Robert Redford’s ‘The Candidate,’ Dies at 88
Jeremy Larner, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford-starring The Candidate, has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
March 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Jeremy Larner, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford-starring The Candidate, has died. He was 88.
Loyle Carner heißt eigentlich Coyle-Larner???
January 28, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Loyle Carner heißt eigentlich Coyle-Larner???
Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 'The Candidate' (1972), has died. He was 88.
Jeremy Larner Dies: Oscar-Winning 'The Candidate' Writer Was 88
Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 'The Candidate' (1972), has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
March 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 'The Candidate' (1972), has died. He was 88.
Imagine cutting Nursing places at a University in the midst of a chronic shortage of qualified nurses?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social Wake up Mr Streeting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social Wake up Mr Streeting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Imagine cutting Nursing places at a University in the midst of a chronic shortage of qualified nurses?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social Wake up Mr Streeting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social Wake up Mr Streeting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This was an upsetting meeting on so many levels. Spare a thought please for my colleagues and me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This was an upsetting meeting on so many levels. Spare a thought please for my colleagues and me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Post prompted by Wendy larner on the Today programme (but would add Adam Tickell and a few others)
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Post prompted by Wendy larner on the Today programme (but would add Adam Tickell and a few others)
Illustration by Lucia Larner for Gibson Wedding & Anniversary Cards. Published in Life Magazine, vol. 32, no. 21 (May 26, 1952), p. 75. Ad copy removed by me.
September 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Illustration by Lucia Larner for Gibson Wedding & Anniversary Cards. Published in Life Magazine, vol. 32, no. 21 (May 26, 1952), p. 75. Ad copy removed by me.
Hey Everyone! I've made the leap over to Substack. I'll still be on here, hopefully more, and writing threads but I'll be posting longer form articles here, doing some Whiteboard rugby vids, and recruitment ideas.
I'd love it if you'd give me a subscribe at samlarner.substack.com
I'd love it if you'd give me a subscribe at samlarner.substack.com
Sam Larner Analysis | Substack
Rugby coach, analyst, and writer! Click to read Sam Larner Analysis, a Substack publication. Launched 5 minutes ago.
samlarner.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hey Everyone! I've made the leap over to Substack. I'll still be on here, hopefully more, and writing threads but I'll be posting longer form articles here, doing some Whiteboard rugby vids, and recruitment ideas.
I'd love it if you'd give me a subscribe at samlarner.substack.com
I'd love it if you'd give me a subscribe at samlarner.substack.com
YouGov's first MRP of the 2026 Senedd election shows Plaid Cymru on course to be the largest party
PC: 43 (+19 from 2021*)
Ref: 30 (+30)
Lab: 12 (-32)
Grn: 10 (+10)
Con: 1 (-25)
LD: 0 (-2)
*notional results had the last election been conducted on the new system based on data from Dr Jac Larner
PC: 43 (+19 from 2021*)
Ref: 30 (+30)
Lab: 12 (-32)
Grn: 10 (+10)
Con: 1 (-25)
LD: 0 (-2)
*notional results had the last election been conducted on the new system based on data from Dr Jac Larner
March 25, 2026 at 9:23 AM
YouGov's first MRP of the 2026 Senedd election shows Plaid Cymru on course to be the largest party
PC: 43 (+19 from 2021*)
Ref: 30 (+30)
Lab: 12 (-32)
Grn: 10 (+10)
Con: 1 (-25)
LD: 0 (-2)
*notional results had the last election been conducted on the new system based on data from Dr Jac Larner
PC: 43 (+19 from 2021*)
Ref: 30 (+30)
Lab: 12 (-32)
Grn: 10 (+10)
Con: 1 (-25)
LD: 0 (-2)
*notional results had the last election been conducted on the new system based on data from Dr Jac Larner
If you feel strongly about the closure of Ancient History at Cardiff, you can write a letter to Cardiff's Vice-Chancellor, Wendy Larner, v-c@cardiff.ac.uk #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
May 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you feel strongly about the closure of Ancient History at Cardiff, you can write a letter to Cardiff's Vice-Chancellor, Wendy Larner, v-c@cardiff.ac.uk #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
The Wendy Larner chronicles continue.
The University’s HR department has informed us that should we provide comment to journalists covering the personal decisions of the Vice Chancellor there ‘will be no alternative’ but to review as a potential breach of the anti-bullying Dignity at Work policy.
nation.cymru/news/row-ove...
nation.cymru/news/row-ove...
Row over cost of refurbishing Cardiff University Vice Chancellor's rent-free house
Martin Shipton Concerns have been raised about the cost of refurbishing the “grace and favour” residence of Cardiff University’s Vice Chancellor in the wake of her much-criticised plan to shed 400 job...
nation.cymru
March 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The Wendy Larner chronicles continue.
The Lady of the Lake boathouse, Rudyard Lake. Built by William Larner Sugden
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
April 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The Lady of the Lake boathouse, Rudyard Lake. Built by William Larner Sugden
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
Dr Jac Larner, from Cardiff University's Welsh Governance Centre said:
"For Labour, the evidence parallels trends seen in England—they are not primarily losing former supporters to Reform UK, but instead experiencing more substantial defections to other progressive parties."
"For Labour, the evidence parallels trends seen in England—they are not primarily losing former supporters to Reform UK, but instead experiencing more substantial defections to other progressive parties."
May 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dr Jac Larner, from Cardiff University's Welsh Governance Centre said:
"For Labour, the evidence parallels trends seen in England—they are not primarily losing former supporters to Reform UK, but instead experiencing more substantial defections to other progressive parties."
"For Labour, the evidence parallels trends seen in England—they are not primarily losing former supporters to Reform UK, but instead experiencing more substantial defections to other progressive parties."
Did you catch you breath yet??
Francis Henderson takes his first VARC win off of a Green-White-Checkered finish and carries teammates Andrew Larner and Edwin Mendez to the checkers!!
1. Francis Henderson
2. Andrew Larner
3. Edwin Mendez
Francis Henderson takes his first VARC win off of a Green-White-Checkered finish and carries teammates Andrew Larner and Edwin Mendez to the checkers!!
1. Francis Henderson
2. Andrew Larner
3. Edwin Mendez
September 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Did you catch you breath yet??
Francis Henderson takes his first VARC win off of a Green-White-Checkered finish and carries teammates Andrew Larner and Edwin Mendez to the checkers!!
1. Francis Henderson
2. Andrew Larner
3. Edwin Mendez
Francis Henderson takes his first VARC win off of a Green-White-Checkered finish and carries teammates Andrew Larner and Edwin Mendez to the checkers!!
1. Francis Henderson
2. Andrew Larner
3. Edwin Mendez