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Mark Barnes

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Retired Fleet Street foot soldier (1975-2024). Ink in my veins. Arsenal fan. Indifferent runner. Life on the Essex Riviera, photography, cars, military history, model making, armour, aviation, Hot Wheels, other nonsense.

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That is a shame. I stopped acquiring cameras because my house is full enough with other nonsense.

02.03.2026 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She later recovered the wreck of one of the aircraft used. It still disappoints me that I never had time to work on the large file on the flight held by my employers before I retired. There were some marvellous documents including a bill for pictures from a Vancouver photographer.

02.03.2026 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll bet.

02.03.2026 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That looks fabulous. I still have my Polaroid with the box, which my parents gave me when I was ten. I couldn't get on with it and spent a while taking crap photos with a Kodak Instamatic instead. Thats how it starts.

02.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I used to hang around with two sisters who lived in the flat next door to the one used for Jenny Agutter's in the film. When we saw the film one of them said "oh I wondered what they were doing"...

02.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stick to the road!

02.03.2026 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There could have been a career in it for you!

02.03.2026 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cheers, mate. Episode two on Wednesday 💪👍

02.03.2026 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Top work.

02.03.2026 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good luck with that one

02.03.2026 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very nice!

02.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Farage opposes better workers rights, Braverman wants to dismantle workplace equality, Reform want a lower minimum wage, and your guy writes this? Farage has 9 jobs, never bothers with constituents, is rich enough to argue about whether he banks at Coutts, and he represents the working class? 🤡

02.03.2026 16:54 — 👍 92    🔁 46    💬 4    📌 2

I did a streak for a dare in a Berlin bar in 1984, if that counts.

02.03.2026 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Following it up with this belter - Sammy Hagar Loud & Clear, also from 1978. I was 19 when I got this album. Sammy's version of Donovan's Young Girl Blues is fantastic. There a couple of Montrose tracks to add to the mix.

02.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

02.03.2026 16:11 — 👍 3054    🔁 886    💬 123    📌 123

It isn't my favourite, always been hit and miss in my experience, but the last couple of times have been decent. Worst comes to the worst, dive into the Mayflower behind the chip shop.

02.03.2026 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My neighbours love it when I play a few tracks before dinner.

02.03.2026 18:24 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The beer is excellent. The food is pretty good in my book. There is a tendency to drift between there, the Smack, the Mariners and to the Hamlet in Westcliff (my local).

02.03.2026 18:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Always happens when I go to the Billet for lunch.

02.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Its inevitable!

02.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tempting. Looking forward to seeing your progress

02.03.2026 15:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking good.

02.03.2026 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here is photographer Reggie Coote during his time at the Daily Sketch. @newsukarchives.bsky.social

01.03.2026 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Absolutely, that is the reality of it. I am just being flippant about Starmer not standing up to Trump's vile regime. It isn't easy for him, but having a hint of balls would send a message.

01.03.2026 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed, but I'd like to see a less brown nosing.

01.03.2026 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kier snatching defeat from the jaws of defeat

01.03.2026 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's a benign model, so I am sure you'll enjoy yourself

01.03.2026 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent

01.03.2026 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Spurs are losing

01.03.2026 15:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Lovely

01.03.2026 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0