Gareth Evans

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

A small figure of Gimli from the board game Journeys in Middle Earth. He has long brown hair and beard and gold and silver armour. He wears crimson trousers and wields a huge battle axe.

One of the best things about getting in to board gaming is painting the minis. No ‘realism’ constraints, just let your imagination go. Gimli from Journeys in Middle Earth.

Which should read 'Peter Mandelson led away from Camden home by police'. Who writes this crap? @bbcnews.bsky.social

Sorry for your loss. My nan had one, in the words of Cpl. Jones, "Similarly identical".

No more titles should be bestowed or inherited. No new children should receive state money. They'll slowly die off and fade away as an irrelevant anachronism.

I know it's ridiculous to have any hope in this world, but I hope Andrew squeals like a pig and dobs everyone else in it.

Star watching the cheese board.

Dog Must Make Split-Second Decision Whether To Kill Or Show Tummy To Visitor

Dog Must Make Split-Second Decision Whether To Kill Or Show Tummy To Visitor https://theonion.com/dog-must-make-split-second-decision-whether-to-kill-or-show-tummy-to-visitor/

Why is he even participating?!

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a central arched opening (doorway) at ground level. On the upper three levels, in line with the doorway, there are narrow rectangular window openings. The lighthouse stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro, which can be glimpsed on the right-hand side of my photo. The lighthouse is dated circa 1st century to early- 2nd century AD. It was one of a pair originally built on each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). The other does not survive. This lighthouse stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

📷 me

#Archaeology

Telly bloke commenting on the Men's Biathlon shooting has just said that 'Those fingers are freezing' because athetes at this level won't have a wide range of gloves to choose from to suit all conditions to ensure they aren't.

If you have a Royal Family, you have deference.

If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.

If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."

Why would anyone want that at all?

I couldn't hear the build up, but it only needs the punchline. A woman one table over exclaims, with obvious incredulity, "and it turns out they were ALL going out with June Sarpong!"

I get that. A great read. As was everything he wrote. We were robbed. 😔

Look. I just want an A3 print of the moonwalk front page to go in between my vintage national and local newspapers. Saved for me by my parents as I was born in '69. Is that too much to ask?! I'll even PAY for them!

Worth the wait though. 😉

A great loss to literature. Every time I see the spine of 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' on our book shelves I feel a pang of grief for what would never be written.

Oh cool, new bench spider. Wait, that’s a…. 😱😬🤢🤮

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

I was thinking of Le Mans circuit in France. Might be a bit big though.

David Bull presenting on Talk Tv with a panty pad stuck on his ear in sympathy with Trump when he got shot.

This is David Bull. Presenting on TV. Wearing a panty pad on his ear when Trump got shot. Nothing he says or does should *ever* be taken seriously ever again.

@itvx.com not being able to go 40 minutes without interrupting the game with an advert is some real shithousery. @sixnations-rugby.bsky.social

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a snowy white scene cut through by two dark grey roads and a deep blue winter. Cars are visible on the roads and a couple on the snow to the North.

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a snowy white scene cut through by two dark grey roads and a deep blue winter. Cars are visible on the roads and a couple on the snow to the North.

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a snowy white scene cut through by two dark grey roads and a deep blue winter. Cars are visible on the roads and car tyre marks through the snow.

A snowy aerial embroidery I made two years ago... I was looking back through my landscape archive and found it again 😊 I wonder where that car that drove off the bottom left is going?? Hopefully they got back ok 😅 #art

Wow!

I've used a few of these sheets and they really are good. The only downside is they need constant monitoring as the decal solutions take effect so you can make any position adjustments. Labour intensive!

Thanks!

I had the Studio27 carbon decals on back order at Spot Model for nearly two years. Worth the wait as they look fantastic on the Tamiya 1/12 Suzuki GSX-RR ‘20.

Utterly brilliant. Get one while you can.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

We built a retirement home for the oldest street dogs in Thailand.

I promise this will put a huge smile on your face