Chris Doward

Cat paw print in a red brick wall.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

Hundreds of raw sausages fly-tipped near city centre Council leaders have urged people not to fly-tip in the area.

You can’t pork there mate.

Pantone ‘Stained Glass’ door by Italian designer Armin Blasbichler

Pantone ‘Stained Glass’ door by Italian designer Armin Blasbichler

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

'Colours', Brixton (2025) by Marie Lenclos
marielenclos.com

👤: @marielenclos.bsky.social

Teletext mockup/art inspired by yesterday's Cloudflare outage. P100 Teletext 100 Nov18 14:00:13 Internal server error Visit Cloudflare on p799 for more info. 2025-11-18 14:00:13 UTC Pixel art of a TV with bunny-ear aerial with a green tick, a TV transmitter with a red tick, and a PC with a green tick. You, TV: Working London, Cloudflare: Error Teletext, Host: Working What happened? There is an internal error on Cloudflare's network. What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes. Cloudflare Index

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Love this RS

GRANGE HILL STREET BLUES
#TWOSHOWSINONE

THE GOOD LIFE ON MARS
#TWOSHOWSINONE

Thank you for posting, Steve.

Invicta Road School, Blackheath, London SE3 in the 1900s

THREAD/Today marks the 85th anniversary of one of the more tragic incidents of the London Blitz and one that is overshadowed by the even more tragic events the same night in Coventry. Invicta Road School in Blackheath was originally built in 1900 and was a typical product of the London School Board

Cartoon of an otter holding a book called 'Under Wotter". Caption: Otterbiography

Otterbiography

just experienced "MacSpreading" - where someone just asked for more room on the train table because their MacBook Pro and Mouse needs more than their half of the table...

A nighttime scene of massive orange and yellow flames and thick black smoke billowing into the dark sky from an industrial fire. Silhouetted people stand watching in the foreground, with car headlights illuminating the wet street and emergency lights visible amid the blaze.

On Nov. 10, 1979, a 106-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in Mississauga.
The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point.
Not a single life was lost.
This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle.

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WORD OF THE DAY.

Excellent.

To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

And of Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot works as well.

As always on this day: Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

"Fetch boy! I said fetch - must say your dog gets bored with games quickly."
"Yes, I'm afraid I've got a short attention spaniel."

Le Brasilia's stunning staircase. My photo taken in Marseille in 2017

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

Braquage! #Louvre

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Poppies catching the morning sun, Weybourne Station, 18/10/25.

Poppies catching the morning sun, Weybourne Station, 18/10/25.

A zoomed in photo of poppies catching the morning sun, Weybourne Station, 18/10/25.

Poppies in the morning sun, Weybourne Station, North Norfolk Railway. 18/10/25. @icelass.bsky.social

It is not to possible to access the North Wales lines from Platform 5 at Crewe, only from Platform 6 and above. I think it was usually Platform 11.

87006 'City of Glasgow' leaving platform 5 at Crewe light engine on a Sunday after working a train from London Euston. 87006 is heading for the Manchester lines which head off to the right of the picture. Photo probably taken around midday as the sun is pretty much head on to the rear cab. Loco in early Inter-City livery, with yellow ends and a BR double arrow just visible on the bodyside of 87006. The West Coast Main Line to Liverpool and Scotland disappears into the distance to the right of 87006. Lots of structures to support the overhead wires are visible. 87006 is framed between the post of signal CE157, shunt signal visible, and a stanchion on the right.

Seeing we're on a Class 87 theme, here's one of my favourite photos: 87006 'City of Glasgow' heading north from platform 5 at Crewe after being detached from its' train on a Sunday around 36 years ago. @doublearrow64.bsky.social

Class 87 locomotives 87027 'Wolf of Badenoch' and 87030 'Black Douglas' at Euston around 1990. Both locomotives are in early versions of Inter-City livery, which the band extending around the cab of 87027, where 87030 has full yellow ends up to the front windows. 87027 has normal size numbers, while 87030 has larger ones.

The loco behind 87030 in the previous photo is 87027 'Wolf of Badenoch'

Or May 1989 to be correct.

Black and white photo of Class 87 87030 'Black Douglas' just peaking from the gloom at London Euston around 1990/1991. The 87 is in Inter-City livery with a full yellow end and large numerals on the cab beneath the driver's window. BR double-arrow symbol just visilbe in the gloom, centre-right of the photo.

My photo of 87030 at Euston, probably 1990/91, with large numbers and a larger arrow symbol than 87021 just visible in the gloom. I'm sure I've got a colour photo of 87030 from May 1990 but that may be lost in the mists of time.