David Powell

Oh, I’ve slept since the time I’d have known the answer to that question!

Bit of reading for the train #beano #bananaman

#archives

Progress continues

Making things again. can you guess what it is yet?

Wow - and I though my parents were bad for not letting me watch Grange Hill until I was at secondary school!

Definitely one of ours. Ran from 1922-1973 and was a boys story paper. All produced in Dundee but carried the London office address. The office is now gone but we’ve still office around the corner on Fleet Street :)

If 2025 brings a lottery win I’ll sort my teeth. But hey, happy new year when it comes from me and ‘im.

Not all heroes wear capes

Pint one imbibed. Second pint on the way. Politely refusing the offer of shots from the drag queen. No mixing drinks til whisky at midnight! Happy Hogmanay and new year to you all. Especially you #archives folk - you all deserve it!

Icelandic rye bread took 8 hours on a slow bake but goes amazingly with the mashed fish. Lining the stomach before the drinking starts.

Hints to job seekers on cv’s. Firstly, spell the name of your potential employer correctly. Secondly, spell your own name correctly.

It’s also awful for people called Al. We’ve one whose surname means emails that come in looking like they’re from AI Robot if I’m not reading properly.

This mornings advent calendar was a chocolate reindeer. Not sure what this has to do with the baby Jesus but scoffed it anyway. #advent

Concert evening happened. Berlioz, Bruch and Mendelssohn.

It’s the annual #FromageFriday in the archive office as cheese is consumed along with other nibbles as I graciously allow the decorations to be put up.

About to go on.

And it happened again. When someone I don’t know calls me Dave - it makes my skin crawl.

So Gladiator 2 is basically Jedward with syphillis. You’ll understand when you see it.

Exercise is Not Fun

Snow in Aberdeen this morning. Beautiful but a bit chilly!

Amazing but a shame this #archive will be broken up into 700 lots to maximise profit

Which Mozart was on the menu?

This photo resurfaced recently at work and I’d forgotten about it. We’d be larking around on a store…

sirdar.com//en/products... - midnight sapphire is the “shade”. The scarf was gifted to someone and is being joyously worn :)

The musician in me can’t spell crochet…

Things I made in the last month. Crotchet keeps my hands busy and stops me eating biscuits. Gran taught me millennia ago and had a hankering to take it up again, with a bit of help from online tutorials.

Can’t be that long surely! Happy anniversary :)

We did a thing and now there are 100 archive tv adverts available online from the earliest days of commercial telly for loads of our comics and magazines including Bunty, Jackie, Dandy, and The Peoples Friend. Go explore: movingimage.nls.uk/search?perso...