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Full time dad and part time railway author. Winner of Third Prize Non-Fiction at the 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards for “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway”. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rclong
That’s called renting.
Those were sporrans.
Actually George VI was never on a bank note. They didn’t have anyone on UK bank notes in ye olden times before 1960.
Yes, but even the Queen was only on banknotes from 1960 onwards - still well within living memory.
This piqued my curiosity, and people were only put on banknotes from 1971 onwards in the UK.
Minesweeper: Strait of Hormuz edition
"And you say you're calling from Microsoft Support Company?"
I still think about this a lot.
"For your people have corrupted themselves. ... They have made themselves a molten calf, and worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god’" (Exodus 32:7-8).
‘Train don’t stop Camborne Wednesdays!’ #IfYouKnowYouKnow 😉
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
Sorry but, yes, everyone knew this.
#OnThisDay 174 years ago the West Cornwall Railway opened from Penzance to Redruth, partly over the mainly mineral 1837 Hayle Railway. Extending to Truro that August, it was isolated until connecting to the Cornwall Railway at Truro in 1860. A busy Penzance in July 1982: Clive Smith buff.ly/FKSeozp
Not to mention the Cadbury’s Caramel bunny.
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/
That was quick - well done!
It's the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, and who can forget Alexander Graham Bell's first, immortal words?
With fuel prices going up rapidly, should we maybe consider encouraging more people to take the train where possible as part of the solution? A monthly ticket giving unlimited travel on local and regional transport for example like some other countries have done?
Happy Birthday to the Bakerloo line - 120 years old today. The initial section of the tube line was formally opened on 10 March 1906 by the Chairman of the #London CC; the brochure has this fine map showing the line along with the other UERL tubes under construction.
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Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
That hasn’t changed much.
#OnThisDay 120 years ago the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opened between Kennington Road (now Lambeth North) and Baker Street. The portmanteau 'Bakerloo' was quickly coined and officially adopted by July of 1906. Montage of images and posters all LT Museum Collection
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.
Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?
Last line is especially ominous
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
