Simon M. Clabby

Demon dogs for me!

That's what the students I was working with a couple of weeks ago kept saying.

Funny how we listen to them when they say "get on Tiktok", but not when they say that...

A 1930s pub with a brick first floor and elaborately tiled ground floor.

A pint of bitter.

A close up of the pub exterior, with 'vaults' in stained glass.

A pub bar.

*banging on table* every museum should have a pub

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Hope they sell Hammond Organs!

shrek is smiling and looking at the camera in a close up of his face . ALT: shrek is smiling and looking at the camera in a close up of his face .

Not yet, but I have a craft knife and a head start before our head of collections sees this post...

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Did she remarry?

Going trick or treating as a keyring?

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Guess we know where the people with no sense of historical wonder are...

A Mixed Recovery | Audience Answers We've seen that engagement at venues has overtaken pre-pandemic figures (June 2025), but now we can see how that picture varies by art form.

Apparently Christmas events are struggling to sell tickets.

Wonder if that's because of all the "Winter Blunderland" stories in the press every winter?

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Optimus Prime doesn't wear a smock with his name and face on it.

Not many themes go from Fanfare to Funky so seamlessly, but this manages it.

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four men are standing next to each other in front of a blue sky . ALT: four men are standing next to each other in front of a blue sky .

I think I saw it at the end of an episode of Tarrant on TV back in the 90s, and it's remained in my head ever since.

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I think this one would work just as well

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Six months later, and it's still getting attention...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Daleks

two men are walking down a sidewalk with a smiley face on their faces . ALT: two men are walking down a sidewalk with a smiley face on their faces .

I like the one where they go clubbing, although it's hard to find an episode that I don't like.

We did walk down the aisle at my wedding to Sil Vous Plait though.

I like this.
What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :)

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Might have to add this to the collection...

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Marvel UK did have the Ghostbusters license back in the 80s...

DINSDALE!!!

The five housemates from the Young Ones

You know that fifth member of the Young Ones flatmates? That's this.

How did they choose which Tuvix to kill to get the originals back though?

Ah, sorry.

Ours used to on Twitter, they were doing quite well (similar following to certain national museum learning accounts), but they had trouble finding the time to post consistently.

METRO Police investigating 'woman in distress' find it's just a noisy goat called Simon. Picture shows a goat, possibly Simon.

Simon, you’re a tit.

I actually conteacted our curator and head of collections to check this - Nobody can say I ask boring questions.

Though nobody's commented that it's only in the top five...