The Dreaded Lurgy

Good luck!

So sweet

My local greengrocer has started putting the aubergines on the top shelf.

👍

The inventor of the snooze alarm has died. He'll be buried next Thursday at 10.15, 10.20 and 10.25.

Terry doesn’t have an upper lip. So, when @crgn.bsky.social requested Salvador Dali for #PlasticeneHalloween, we knew we couldn’t just slap a moustache on Terry and call it a costume.

Instead, we created:

The Persistence of Terry

He’s half the man he used to be.

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

It's a cheap flag on a lamp-post.

Born on this day 1937: World Cup winner and Manchester United legend, Bobby Charlton.

The Magnum Photo Archive has recently published 5 unseen photos from Raymond Depardon's now iconic Glasgow 1980 series, discovered during a digitisation project.

📷 Magnum/Raymond Depardon

#Glasgow

Jim Richardson - National No-Smiling Day, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland (2020)

Thread

the legend says that if you appoint Lecornu three times, you can summon a functioning government

Bit rude

A huge ditch surrounded by trees

This is Watling Lodge in Falkirk, the best preserved section of the Roman frontier known today as the Antonine Wall. Consisting of a huge ditch and a (now lost) turf rampart, it stretched between the Firths of Forth and Clyde, a distance of around 38 miles. #RomanSiteSaturday

The Slow Match Report: Scotland 3 Greece 1 Not since the rise of Sparta have Greeks suffered such traumatic defeat. It was an injustice, it was moonlight robbery — it was sheer, unadulterated Hampden joy!

Another lovely piece of writing from Leither @danielgraywriter.bsky.social - his evening out watching Scotland somehow beat Greece last Thursday.

It's been a whole year since the Northern Lights lit up the Lake District skies.. and what a sight it was! 💚

"Me? With my reputation?"

How this story hasn't made headlines everywhere is unfortunately *not* beyond me. Just a pal of Farage's, ex-UKIP MEP, proud "patriot" betraying his country to Russia.

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

Breaking: Sébastien Lecornu has resigned again.

"It's Roy Walsh"
"What's that darlin?"
"I said it's Roy Walsh"
"Sorry babe I don't know no Roy Walsh"
"No, now listen carefully ya eedjit, I said, it's feckin ROY WALSH"

*Rubs thighs*

You should try it too!

#OtD 10 Oct 1971 the men of Bravo Company, 1/12, 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army declared a private unofficial ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. It followed a mutiny shortly before. Authorities instead shipped them out to safety. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished. Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen. The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

I have failed. I'm sorry.

There was a Christmas tree in a Co-op store a couple of days ago.