Marc Petty

BC (Before Cowan) 😂 If we can get to 50 points I think that would be quite an achievement given where we've come from. It's certainly making me feel a lot better about renewing my season ticket!

Look forward to your review!

I really should. I started getting into it many years ago, when I worked at Shropshire Archives, and always meant to continue. My great grandfather's middle name was 'Highway', in tribute to Humphrey Kynaston - to whom we're supposedly related. It would be worth it just to try and confirm that!

Walking out of the stadium yesterday, I felt the result was a fair reflection of the game but the stats were fairly equal and we could easily have equalised towards the end. Suppose it shows how far we've come that we can feel disappointed with a narrow defeat against good opposition!

Yup, my Great Grandfather was John Jones, and his father was... well, you've guessed it! In St Martins, they used to give people additional names to delineate them from other Jones'. My family were known as 'Clemson Jones' - I've no idea why?! Happy St David's Day, Helen! #DyddGŵylDewi

Yup. We could maybe have sneaked an equaliser at the end, via Boyle, Sang or a penalty, but hard to escape the feeling they did a number on us!

A sunny day in Shrewsbury but, alas, not on the pitch as fans and players applaud one and other following Salop's 2-1 home reverse against local rivals Walsall.

And so our glorious winning streak ends. The players looked jaded after successive Saturday-Tuesday games, and we struggled to impose ourselves against a resolute opponent (apart from Iwan Morgan, of course, who was 🔥🔥🔥). Still, a great run and we are in a very different place now 👊

#Salop 🔵🟠

I say 'braw' but I've no idea if that's the definitive pronunciation - wonder if @shroppiemon.bsky.social can help us out?

St Mary's Broughton (it's just up the hill from Yorton!) with brightly coloured crocus and daffodils in the churchyard.

A sea of daffodils, snowdrops and crocus at St Mary's Broughton, near Yorton!

If you enjoy some early spring flowers, I definitely recommend a trip to St Mary's Broughton, which is currently awash with snowdrops, daffodils and crocus 🤩

#Yorton #Shropshire 🌷

The tower of St Mary's Hadnall framed by a hedge and two bare silver birch trees, with daffodils in the foreground.

Daffodils, two silver birch, and the tower of the parish church!

#Hadnall #Shropshire 💛

Saint Gavin's Barmy Army! 😇

This is scarcely believable! 💙🧡

WWWWW 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#Salop 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡

The Dingle is an ornamental garden in the heart of Shrewsbury's delightful Quarry Park!

Spring might not yet have sprung but it was definitely thinking about it in the Dingle this lunchtime:

#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 🌤️🌡️

Wasn't the Shakespeare the pub where the glasses danced on the bar whenever a train went through the tunnel?!

Ah, your classic green Glasdon grit bin, with its distinctive 'knuckle-and-rod' hinge... just beautiful, Bob! 😍

We're on Severnside in Ironbridge, close to Eustace Rogers' old coracle workshop, where a yellow Sportsmark Beehive grit bin, the word famous Ironbridge, and the River Severn can be seen side-by-side, together in perfect harmony! 😮

🎶 And like a bin next to troubled water,
I will lay grit down 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Ironbridge #Shropshire 💛🌉

A hedgerow in winter. A green grit salt bin lies beneath a fingerpost indicating BUS ROUTE TO CAUDLE GREEN. A yellow H fire hydrant sign is also affixed to the post.

#GritSaltBinMonday
&
#FireHydrantFriday
& #FingerPostFriday

Today, we're in Wesley Road, Ironbridge, close to the Golden Ball pub, where a yellow Sportmark Beehive grit bin stands between two posts in a small, roadside shrubbery overlooking some garages and an area of hardstanding in this hilly area of the town. In the background, the distinctive spire of the Gothic, Victorian-era Wesleyan Infants school can be seen. It was built in 1858, and is now private housing. If you're ever in the area, I recommend walking towards the garages and turning left through the metal pagoda into the delightful, and little-known Galleon Park (which takes its name from a wooden ship that was constructed here as a feature... but has since rotted away!).

🎶 Oh, oh I'm trapped,
Like a bin between two posts,
I can't get out, see I'm trapped,
Can't you see I'm underused,
I can't get out! 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Ironbridge #Shropshire 💛🏫

High Rock and the River Severn from Castle Hill, Bridgnorth.

Here's one you might appreciate, Fr. Mo... happy #ShropshireDay 😃

On the Cliffe (looking towards The Wrekin)

The view from the Cliffe, an area of upland heath in the Nesscliffe Hills of north Shropshire, looking east towards The Wrekin.

Happy #ShropshireDay to all who observe 💚🥳

Rhubarb (at the Drapers Hall), Kanu Poke and Casa Naranjo are my favourites, Helen. House of the Rising Sun is good, too!

#GritSaltBinMonday is the hashtag you need, Bob! PS. think that's a Europalite 200L btw! 💛😉

HBD, James! Hope you're having a good day 🥳

Which ones?

Is paragraph two from the script of a Carry On movie, Mon? 😳

Shrews are stying up, Shrews are stying up ole, ole... Shrewsbury Town 1 Notts County 0 - What a night! #Salop #STFC

All aboard the play-off express! 🚅🚀💙🧡😉

A walk through, wisteria-clad pergola in the terraced public garden in Ironbridge. It lies between the Madeley Road and Bedlam Furnaces.

The secret garden: a ten minute walk from the #Ironbridge, and not a soul in sight!

#Shropshire 🎍