That Ian May

@ediblereading.bsky.social's review of the Royal Berkshire Hospital is a beautiful thing:
ediblereading.com/2025/12/19/r...
Thank you to all the staff at the RBH who work so hard to look after us 24/7 365 days a year.

Pigs in blankets Squeezy Cheese - apparently it’s a thing!

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should."

Hang in there sir.
You've got this.

I think 4/10 is generous TBF.

Perhaps they should have asked Keith Allen to get his crayons out?

Fabulous.
Hoping I might catch 71000 at Reading on Saturday night:
www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...
Looks like there could be two steam services within 10 mins if both are on time:
www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...

I didn't know I wanted added 'AI' in everything, but now having seen that aftershave I am convinced! 🏎️😍

Very impressed you found a massive witch's hat in the middle of Reading 😊

Quite a decent departure 🚂

Sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time 🙂

In this case platform 11 of Reading station in time to catch 34028 ‘Eddystone’ on a trip to Bath and Bristol.

Rich and Ian with 5305 at Scarborough

5305 ‘Alderman A E Draper’ in the platform at Scarborough station.

I think you were probably only about 5. But we had a fun day out in Scarbados with steam haulage both ways. And we got the badges to prove it!

Black Five 5305 in the sunshine at Leeds in 1984

This #BlackFiveDay I think it’s time we went back to Leeds station and the summer of 1984 with LMS Stanier 5MT 5305 and the Scarborough Spa Express.

Happy times indeed 🙂

Snippet from UK Finance 'News in Brief' email from 25 Nov 2025 about Black Friday deals not being actually cheaper.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, I rest my case:

If I had a time machine, I would use it to go back to the year 2014 and make sure that we didn't import the complete cobblers that is 'Black Friday' into the UK.

I have to say that Dad was a class act in the circumstances.

But we have never let him forget this moment😊

So this one time in Germany my dad insisted on buying this fish paste in a tube. Like, a metal toothpaste tube. It looked utterly unappetising to the rest of us but he was unrepentant. He always had a thing for stinky fish-based stuff and this was no different. 1/

Lovely stuff.

A lucky guess there 🙂
It does make complete sense to have one in their range though.

Beautiful!

Ahhh - so that’s why you have such lovely nails Rich!

Who knew?! 💅🖌️

Absolutely. It’s proof that when we do infrastructure investment properly it’s well worth it.

That or another Class 08 - it’s surely when rather than if?

Not sure why I decided to leave my cosy dining room today… ❄️🙂

That last bit...
Really? REALLY?

(Presumably she's met a lot of disabled people who are 'faking it'?)

Surely there needs to be a ‘20-year rule’ or something? Whereby you’re not allowed to remake something as a TV Series/CGI/Live Action version, at least until the kids who grew up with it are adults? 🤷‍♂️

Rocking horse with a sign saying: ‘Emergency transport for hire!’

Spotted on our walk this afternoon🐴

It’ll pass by in a Blur if you manage to get through both of those in an afternoon 🍷🙂

This deserves a re-skeet.
Mindblowing!

The green one does look like a glass of dilute Fairy Liquid though when you add water. 🤷‍♂️

Beautiful yellow and orange beech trees with a blue sky behind.

Might have to get out for a walk this weekend if the weather stays dry-ish. It’d be rude not to when we have autumn colours like this just up the road. 🍂

They could at least learn how to spell 'protocol' if they're going to troll you with an empty roll! 😉