OldVic

Quite a lot of hair on Henry.

Sometimes here, sometimes there, more often out on my bike. 🙂

Flaming Nora, good luck in this bloody lot! 🌪️

Well, I was dreaming of a mild, grey Christmas, so I’m quite satisfied.

I might unlike this so I can like it again.....😁

I’m not a dad, but I always take the slightest opportunity of turning the conversation to human cannonballs. Then I say “You never see them any more do you?” People agree, no you don’t. Then I say, with agonising idiotic joy “it’s because you can’t get men of the right calibre.”

It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!

If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:

- Images
- Description
- How to buy

And I will push you.

Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!

Quite so.
Might as well not bother with the ashes, already ours.

A bombed-out family make use of a rest centre. The mother seeks advice and assistance from the Welfare Adviser in the bottom right hand corner of the photograph, whilst the grandmother and the two children relax on the large sofa and drink the tea which is being poured for them by two members of rest centre staff.

In WW2, the British government mobilized to create a global, distributed logistics chain aimed solely at keeping Britain supplied with one resource.

Flagged as a critical war effort, at times it carried a shipping priority higher than munitions.

That resource was Tea. 🧵 /1

(Image: IWM D 10405)

My dad, experiencing The Cure on Top Of The Pops for the first time in 1983: "Jesus, if that's The Cure ah widnae like tae huv the disease."

The world needs more arse, I've said so for years.
Father Jack has always been my inspiration.

Shakespeare for the 21st century...

7. “To even, or can’t even, that is the question”
6. “All that glisters is not goals”
5. “Out, dammed Spotify!”
4. “As You, like, Like It”
3. “Romeo, Romeo, WTF Romeo?!”
2. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earbuds”
1. “Alas, poor Yorick. He got ratio'd”

Found it in the street. 😆
Don't mind the whistle it's put me in though....

So Mr Bond, we meet at last.

Four fresh conkers sat on a bench, two still in their packets.

'Is the silly old git still collecting conkers?'
'Does a one legged duck swim in a circle?'

I'll have a guess at ten years....

That's beautiful! How long ago did you plant it?

Just a minute......hang on.......
Have you pottered off to another dimension in your TARDIS that looks like a Landy?? 🤔😲

Yes. I'm just girding my loins for a trip to the end of the drive to bring up the bins. 😳
(Not that bad over here either really)

Excellent view 😍
Additionally, excellent flexibility!
#TotallyTwisting

Crikey O'Reilly, that is the absolute definition of only just! 😍
#NoSneezing

Silly, low angle shot of old skool push bike leaning against an evergreen hedge.

Bloomin Eck, that was a bit cooler....
by about eight degrees. 🥺

Cartoon of two birds sitting on a branch facing a third bird who is saying "You have to move. We 've acquired this branch under a Compulsory Perches Order"

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

There's a story that Kevin Costner insisted the finished film was recut to involve a lot more Rickman.

Love it. Is that the tunnel you drive through?

Tricky. Never know if you've reached the top.......😆

Big pointy hill? ⛰️

I know everyone is saying this, but this weather is nuts!!
Cycling in shorts and shirt, north of England, middle of October.
Smashed in the face by all kinds of flying insect.....🐝🦋🐞😳

Ermmm......👀