Sarah Elizabeth Cox

One joke that still makes me laugh is that one where people ask who you would love to go to a dinner party with alive or dead and they say something like "Nigel farage, dead"

I'm being sincere here. I laughed at myself as I typed this

Ps. Wait til you walk in on your toddler holding a large piece of pink chalk like a corn on a cob while gnawing on it and saying Mmmm!

Whatever we think 'enough' is was determined by a combination of a) people a zillion years ago b) men c) really rich people and d) ABOVE ALL: Instagram algorithms. ie. it is all a nonsense, arbitrary, bullshit idea/ideal. You're doing absolutely amazingly.

Both pics show first-round lightweight (140lb and under matches). J. W. Price won in little more than two minutes. Unfortunately, despite being "in splendid condition" for an ancient 38yrs old (😅), he lost his second round match. It took half an hour and being dazed early on by a bad forehead bump.

Jan 28th 1908 Daily Mirror scan from the British Newspaper Archive. Two black and white photos show two pairs of lightweight wrestlers in dark trunks, socks and light shoes in different wrestling positions. John W. Price has a lovely moustache. Title across top says Wrestling Tournament Begins at the Alhambra.

Early 1908, keeping warm out of the rubbish weather and grappling for catch-as-catch-can world championships at the Alhambra, London. Bottom pic legs akimbo is my great great uncle (sort of) John Willie Price (Burnley) beating Alec Matthews (Camden). Monk (Accrington) & Barratt (Balham) in top pic.

Photo of Malachi Kirby and Francis Lovehall, two young Jamaican heritage actors, starring in A Thousand Blows as Hezekiah and Alec. They are pictured in season one of the show wearing tan/orange/green light 1880s lower class clothing, looking concerned at a boxing club, ropes and spectators visible in shot. The audience are boozing.

Things that weren't in #AThousandBlows but should have been: the prize for men fighting in a 10st (140lb) and under competition at the Bluecoat Boy on Christmas Eve 1881 was 'a fat turkey'. Alec Munroe boxed there regularly at the time. Hezekiah Moscow had not yet debuted but was the pot washer.

Sometimes I just yell about it to strangers in the street. Whisper to dogs on buses. Write blogs. All sorts! 😂 Enjoy 🙌🏻🥊

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Hah! It was a true community of undercuts and piercings (drinking too much wine) for a while.

I do NOT miss cleaning assorted slime off shelves...

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Just heard about @profaliceroberts.bsky.social's new show - seeing these pics REALLY made me miss the years I got to work for Barts Pathology Museum. Too much wine. A lot of rodent taxidermy classes. Still use my John Bellingham mug as a toothbrush holder:

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My Estonia. White Man’s Dark Paradise What happens when you move to a place that doesn't protect you?

So glad @shafimusaddique.bsky.social has told his story. This is an important read open.substack.com/pub/shafimus...

Barry's last three willy blockages cost £350, £700 and wait for it... £1050, the latter two not covered at all by insurance. Ooh and he had to be locked in the bathroom for three days and nights dripping blood and wee all over it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just noticed the part where Newsquest spelled Newsquest wrong too 🤌🏻

This properly made me laugh 😂

A couple of years ago I walked ten marathons in 24 days for charity, as you do on maternity leave etc, and the Clacton Gazette had me and my son as Sarah and Jack in the copy and Samantha and Harry in the photo caption 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

He's finally made the paper. As both Jeff Cox AND Jeff Fox! Brilliant. Shoddy journalism, nice photo of Geoff Cox though! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Photo of Malachi Kirby and Francis Lovehall, two young Jamaican heritage actors, starring in A Thousand Blows as Hezekiah and Alec. They are pictured in season one of the show wearing tan/orange/green light 1880s lower class clothing, looking concerned at a boxing club, ropes and spectators visible in shot. The audience are boozing.

Things that weren't in #AThousandBlows but should have been: the prize for men fighting in a 10st (140lb) and under competition at the Bluecoat Boy on Christmas Eve 1881 was 'a fat turkey'. Alec Munroe boxed there regularly at the time. Hezekiah Moscow had not yet debuted but was the pot washer.

I haven't seen them since 2002, sad to say! But still have a few tracks on my gym playlist :)

Late evening shot over the calm wave-free water in Clacton, three gulls in the sky. Pinkish tinge to it.

Bright sunshine, blue sky and white clouds over the sea and yellow beach at Jaywick Sands

Clacton and Jaywick today 💙

I'm not saying this political movement is the preserve of the turbo-divorced but who else has plans for an immigration protest on Valentine's Day?

The Texas / 2nd Amendment flag is a particularly unhinged touch seeing as the protest was in Poole

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Just because we have utter contempt for Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin, does not mean we should have contempt for people who might consider voting for them says @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👏

Hah, I understand. Duckworth will be publishing book one (Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson and five other men) in Spring next year. Promise! Books two and three are still in my head but bear with me - I have a full time job and a toddler. They WILL be happening.

Just turned 16, just got my first proper job, and it was one of my first ever gigs after a Nirvana tribute band and a few other local acts. Gary from Reef set the STANDARD 😂🫡

Oh gosh. Memories.

TWENTY THREE AND A HALF YEARS since Gary held my hand at The Pitz, Milton Keynes during Place Your Hands and dripped sweat on my teenage head 😭🙌🏻

Tonty Blair drops in at the Rovers, when we were a real country

Did someone say beveragino?

Sadly, no more photos of my boxer BUT I am now wildly in love with his daughter (b.1893), someone I had written on briefly in a blog and been fascinated by, but never seen. She's just... BEAUTIFUL. Can't wait to see where this all goes! I hope the answer is 'a second book'. With women in it!

Another understated classic: from the Beeb's piece today about Hello Kitty.

As someone who works from home in Clacton, and just once a week in London, the money I don't spend on the overpriced trains gets put into CLACTON's cafes, shops, gyms, nursery fees, the general economy... not to Greater Anglia. And my own MP doesn't like it!? 🤷🏻‍♀️😂