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Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and Yorkshire salad for #YorkshireDay

Batman 423 with iconic cover by Todd MacFarlane

Charity shop find of the week ;-) Not in the very best of condition but I'm confident the price sticker will come off with no fuss and definitely worth 50p. First print, a little cover damage from a previous price sticker, very slight spine roll and possibly some colour fade down the left

ONE MORE TUNE ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch

One More Tune
ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch

is now available

thedarkoutside.bandcamp.com/album/ilx-an...

An Oscar every 46 minutes

this reminds me of something on TikTok this week:

The first time I came to Edinburgh for the fringe I had no accommodation booked. Each day we queued up at an office in the Waverley, they had a list of vacancies and would make the call to book you in, usually to Pollock Halls but also B and Bs

Welcome ;-)

An except for access sign on a fence at the Botanics in Glasgow, except the picture depicts a constitution class starship and a Klingon bird of prey

A sign on the riverside opposite Finneston cran, warning No Godzillas 8am to 6pm except Sundays, with a graphic depicting the big kaiju fella menacing the cran and the horrible wee hotel next to it.

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.

A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

A photo of cat sitting in some Venetian blinds they have just destroyed with the text JOY DIVISION at the top and UNKNOWN PLEASURES at the bottom

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

Grey house in Edinburgh with matching little free library box

A grey house in Edinburgh, a house called Danger! Also, matching little free library

The plastic stencil is for drawing central heating and ventilation diagrams

Today's haul, Prestonpans Bowling Club car boot sale + Burns Yard. Total spend £5.50 including the 2 display stands, but not the glassware I just spotted in the picture ;-) Also included a gardening trug. The Tonight At Noon record seems to be quite collectable, the Corries less so. Both fun tho...

Tfeh Presents: Marija Kovacevic / Free Magic Show / Ali Robertson

Just spotted my pal @gianttank.bsky.social's gig at the Fruitmarket on Thursday 17th in the ScotRail Inspiration Hub...

www.scotrail.co.uk/inspiration-...

It is the Skinny. I check their listings every month and was surprised to see the gap.

Thanks for the recommendation but I'm at the Pastels on Sunday

I was in a comic shop yesterday and neither of the guys working there had heard of the Comics Journal. I know it doesn't come out very often these days but I still felt a bit sad. The Journal was such a big deal when I was working at FP and Titan in the 80s/90s

Edinburgh gig list in the current Skinny mag. No shows listed between 6th and 11th July

Are there no gigs in Edinburgh next week?

BBC asked Madonna not to swear – so she said 'f**k' 14 times in one minute Madonna, in the most on-brand act ever, once swore 14 times after being told she couldn't at a live London, England, gig in 1990.

Anyone else old enough to remember Madonna repeatedly saying fuck live on Radio 1?

www.thepinknews.com/2020/01/29/m...

You know what you never see in the Glastonbury footage? Setlists taped to the floor...

Rough Trade Bristol is my new favourite record shop

Felicity Kendal Reads All About My Naughty Little Sister on sale at Record and Tape Exchange Notting Hill today

A pint of bitter at the Anglesea Arms, South Kensington today

The West Kensington standing stones in North End Road today

Tube map showing my journey on foot from Paddington to Hammersmith via South Kensington today

Record and Tape Exchange, Anglesea Arms and West Kensington standing stones. All goals achieved in my walk from Paddington to Hammersmith. 21k steps and then tube back via Earls Court

West Kensington standing stones

First drink at the Anglesea Arms in 23 years. Nice pint of Charlie's Choice bitter for £6.15. Used to be my regular when I worked at the Institute of Cancer Research

Sitting in a pub in Lisson Grove listening to Gerry Rafferty #almost

Guinness and scotch egg to celebrate. 33k steps, 16 miles #LondonCornerToCorner

Leaving Westminster, entering Brent

Old school satellite dish shop

Willesden pavement mosaic

The Kilburn Arms

Entering Brent, satellite shop, Willesden pavement mosaic and the Kilburn Arms, our final destination

And England have won the cricket

2.4 miles to go...

In the Green Man, Edgeware Road, listening to Marquee Moon

Vauxhall skyscrapers

Granite and Marble ghost sign of the future

British Interplanetary Society

Over Vauxhall Bridge. Tate gallery and Henry Moore sculpture in the distance

Vauxhall and over Vauxhall bridge