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Self portrait with my face covered by a Starro spore

Inktober day 7. Starfish

Inktober day 6. Pierce

Inktober day 5. Deer

A slender man obscured by mist

Inktober day 4. Murky

Inktober day 3. Crown

A sticker on a lamppost that reads "In a society that teaches tears = weakness CRYING IS PUNK AS FUCK"

#PunkAsFuck

A drawing of a box Lidl Apricot Wheats cereal

Inktober day 2. Weave

Jet off

A score of 12 out of 15 in this week's Guardian Thursday quiz

Happy with that #GuardianQuiz

Inktober day 1. Mustache

‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of being homeless. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive show

"a minister for death metal to be appointed and given responsibility for playlists in westminster dining rooms,
national no poetry day, silent film of poet laureate picking litter on the m62,
child seeing any adult wearing a tie gets to cut it off ... carefully"

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Nigel Short, chess grandmaster

The Mallard, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, still the fastest steam locomotive in the world

Nigel Quashie pictured playing for West Ham, started his career at QPR, played for many clubs in a 20 year career and was the first non-white player to score for Scotland

Nigel Mansell, Formula 1 driver and world champion in 1992

Happy #NigelDay to all who celebrate

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Does anyone remember the late 80s/early 90s poster campaign on South Yorkshire buses (or maybe trains) with a famous boxer of the time (possibly Nigel Benn) threatening he would like to meet the people who cut up bus seats?

I was working at Forbidden Planet at the time and I'm really sure those prints weren't for sale. Hope this helps ;-) Thanks for sharing the pic -- great memories

Pipelayer in the Forth off Prestonpans

Pipelayer in the Forth off Prestonpans

A box of mince pies on sale at Lidl today

The best before date is 31st October

Halloween mince pies on sale at Lidl

Cats with jobs: new post box security guard

A portion of Iceland PepperX chicken vindaloo, minus a few mouthfuls

Defeated by Iceland PepperX

Neon pictures reflecting colour on the underside of Calton Road Bridge

New fighting game background discovered in Edinburgh

COMPETITION TIME! These are two A3 prints I’m not happy selling for various reasons.

Rather than throw them away you can win one (First place picks)

If you’d like the chance to win a print then please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Friday 1pm

My shop www.infinitebacon.com

GOOD LUCK!

I'm playing that record right now, purchased from Umbrella Vinyl a couple of weeks ago. It was more than 50p but plays well ;-)

Enjoy

Letterer Appreciation Day! Each September 1st — the birthday of legendary letterer Gaspar Saladino — we celebrate the vital contributions letterers make to the comic book industry!

Me in front of the street sign for Mount Pleasant in London

My gran died unexpectedly the day before York Festival in 1984 when I was 17. We had been close because we lived with my grandparents for my first ten years. One of her many idiosyncrasies was calling York's mail sorting office Mount Pleasant

Four Ladybird books for sale in a vintage shop

Exciting Ladybird books -- Pirates! Soldiers! Cowboys! And The Printing Process

Me in a charity shop holding the 1984 album Oasis by Oasis, a group made up of Peter Skellern, Mary Hopkins, Julian Lloyd Webber, Bill Lovelady and Mitch Dalton

Found some vintage Oasis on vinyl in the charity shop

A record sleeve found in a charity shop: Pieter Houdt Van Jazz by the Training College Jazz Band and the Kids. The cover is a black and white photo of young people in a classroom and a traditional jazz band

I loved the cover of this 1965 7" but sadly there was no record inside

Three images of street art in Pilsen. First shows Superman punching an ICE agent in paramilitary uniform. Second shows that somebody covered over Superman with black paint Third shows the artist went back and, in place of Superman, he painted Superman's dog Krypto pissing on the ICE agent.

1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago

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