Robert M Ross

We played 'What year was Robert born' at work today, and let me tell you, we are not playing that again.

This is excellent news!

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by a circular golden halo decorated with leaves. The shield is divided into quarters. The upper-left and lower-right of these each display a gold background upon which is found a red lion in rampant posture within a double-border pierced by fleurs-de-lys in the same colour. The upper-right quarter displays three white lions in rampant posture upon a red background. The lower-left quarter shows three red isosceles triangles, meeting at the top and pointing straight down, upon a gold background. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Arms of James Stewart, Duke of Ross. Stained glass in Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Or a lion rampant gules within a double tressure flory-counterflory of the same (Scotland); 2 Gules three lions rampant argent (Ross); 3 Or three piles gules (Brechin). #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

mid-wash? sorry to hear that

Yes, just look around the tiny, tiny room before leaving for a 400 mile journey.

did you know that if you leave your laptop in the premier inn hub at shoreditch, the staff will post it back to you if you send them a box with prepaid postage on it?

But, there's an even better solution!

On first reading of this tweet my thoughts were 'half a table water biscuit, gosh that's cheap - and what sort of biscuit is a Whitehall?'

I'm only slightly peckish now you mention it.

a grainy image of a sign high up on a wall above a shelf. The sign reads 'PUB OF THE NORTH TYNE TEES TELEVISION 1979'. It really was a good bit of dinner.

I forgot to tell you all I had a good Sunday roast at The Grey's Inn at Embleton a while back - very worthy winners of this award.

If you want to dress well this fall, imagine yourself as Big Jim Collie, a Scottish crofter in the 1970s who lived alone in a bothy and rode a rickety old bicycle through the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain, while sustaining himself on a bit of dram.

have you had any good cheeses lately Nick?

@swansonian.bsky.social happy birthday!

Oh, you heard that too?

It just kept getting better as it went on, a night to remember (though maybe not for the guy who kept passing out on the tram home).

Nice to see you outside the stadium and apologies for my over-enthusiastic greeting - I was full of good cheer (though sadly no beer)

the face of a soggy man in a grey woollen hat with a grey sky behind. his hat has a Clan Ross badge on it, and behind the badge is a sprig of Juniper and an eagle feather

'Scottish summer'

Looks like a great day! Sweltering at Ballater games on Thursday until the hailstones started...

A rare combo of a cosy lamp over something the cat won't sit on

a boy in a cowboy outfit is holding a bag of milky bars and says the milky bars are on me ALT: a boy in a cowboy outfit is holding a bag of milky bars and says the milky bars are on me

Won £1 on the Octopus Wheel of Fortune

This is spectacular!

*waves from considerable distance*

Woodcut tree decorated in red.

Happy Little Tree

AAALAN PARTRIDGE FROM THE OASTHOUSE

Perfect for those knights with a voluminous moustache

cow-proof though?

Did you wear insufficiently baggy trousers?

picture of new pope from news site with caption 'Who is Robert Prevost, the new pope?'

Yes, that's exactly who he is.

That's a lengthy refurbishment! I hope it will be worth the wait.

Can't believe they didn't leave an opening for at least two sequels with diminishing returns