Rob Barker

Working at a university I’ve been to lots of graduation ceremonies but I’ve never seen someone knock over the trombone player on the orchestra so they go BraHHHHparpp

OH amazing woman on handsfree in B&Q “You’re three hundred miles away and you’re talking shit…”

A vinyl edition of The Sundays’ album Reading Writing & Arithmetic with a setlist

And in my copy of The Sundays’ Reading, Writing & Arithmetic’. This was from Cambridge Junction and I was there.

A setlist on top of a vinyl copy of Peter Gabriel’s album ‘So’

Just found a setlist in this copy of Peter Gabriel’s So

til my wife has seen Meet Joe Black three times

Has anyone seen my glasses?

A page from a book that says some mean things about Sheffield

Alright dickhead

Always nice to be in Crookes, Sheffield but bit unsettling the way all the men look like the singer from Eels

“You just knocked over my wedding!” My oldest shouts as she plays Playmobil

You may think it’s been a long time since you had ham, egg and chips but statistically it’s only been six months

Yeah but they still seem to put them on men’s clothes

Why do clothes for women not have pockets?

A sign reading Club Mill Road, path in foreground

A pathway leading off to the right, flanked by trees and fences

Half a brick wall with art by Phlegm, flanked by bushes and fences

A caravan with lengths of wood resting against it

Just time for a quick bite of an apple while walking Club Mill Road. Less caravans than previously. I miss them

Amazing poster by the late great Martin Bedford there. A Sheffield master

Do I think Musk is a fascist or an actual Nazi? I don't think it even matters...he sends blaring fog horns to people who absolutely are. And he makes them feel very very validated.

"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

YouTube video by Julee Cruise - Topic Until the End of the World

Your bright eyes fill my soul
Your kiss a sacred dream
The dream is one that lasts
Until the end of the world

youtu.be/PIgZUNbxqxw

Curly fries: how do they make them? I’m guessing they’re carved but that must be a helluva job

Why the hell are there only two Meg films?

A photo of a litter bin with the residue of a poster on it

Looks like there’s a new Underworld album coming out

‘Flightless Bird’ is a good name for a band.

A packet of crisps called ‘Bunny Bites’

Just opened a pack of these and a bunny jumped out and bit me.

Well that’s the mark of a great storyteller/decorator

They do say there’s no new stories

A hand holding three paint colour cards. In order; ‘Country Vicarage’, ‘Tender Romance’ and ‘Spontaneous Combustion’

Stories are everywhere. This is B&Q

We have to evidence climate change but they can take us out the biggest trading bloc in the world because feelings

A toasted and buttered rectangular crumpet on a plate

Rectangular crumpet. Just feels like it’s against God somehow

Three intelligent monkeys stood in tunics, barren rocky landscape in background

A catalogue photograph of an air fryer

Airfryers. They get shit done and are my choice for kitchen appliance I’d like to become dominant species on Earth in a Planet of the Apes stylee

I’ve never read more than a couple of pages of this in one sitting but this is a good one