I do like raspberries so that tempted me, but then I realised the Quark flavour would be almost undetectable, so I passed ( but anticipating the Strangeness and Charm versions nonetheless …) 😀

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”

~General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Image: National Archives.

Hoping for a few (Summers End for sure)..the Lockerbie gig sounds like a perfect pre birthday treat for me so..🤞

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

Should be more of this kind of thing ..

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My mate Emma ( not on here so won’t see this)…new album dropping soon 😎😉

Scott of the Antarctic location filming

The old man…
#photography
#antarctica
#scottoftheantarctic

Manchester Central Library

#photography
#manchester

Central Manchester canal

#photography
#manchester

Some photographs that mean something to me and remind me that there is joy in the world … #1 in a random series #photography

Good to have her back in working order. She’s also very forgiving of my less than fabulous playing…

Pseuds Corner in Private Eye, submission about Marie Kondo fainting while tidying

We’ve all been there right? 😀

Write to your MP | Say 'No!' to collective worship and narrow RE Help us call on the UK Government to urgently review the laws on Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in state schools in England, following a Supreme Court ruling that exclusively Christia...

I’ve just emailed my MP, asking them to support an urgent review of collective worship, and for a national entitlement to a broad, balanced, and inclusive curriculum about religions and humanism in every school. You should too! #HumanistsUK humanists.uk/action/urge-...

Steve nails it as usual 👏

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Black Sabbath
Rush
Budgie
It Bites
Thunder

Totally agree. Using Tidal as it seems the best of a not very good bunch…

The Blackheart Orchestra - Winter Majesty Listen to Winter Majesty on TIDAL

Listen to Winter Majesty on your streaming service…beautiful new track from @theblackheartorch.bsky.social 🥰 🖤

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Petition: Defend BBC independence from Trump’s interference Stop Trump Coalition

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Here’s a random memory from FB when the designer of some It Bites t shirts did a magazine mock up…ok sure it boosted sales by 2 or 3..😀

Ha I love it 😀

😎👍

I’ve got Chris Cornell singing ‘Arsehole Sun’ in my head now 😀

Post you from a different era …

Impressive. I’d forgotten what a well articulated path to a better and more equitable society sounded like.

😀🙏

Supposed to be a link to my walk 62 miles for Refuge in October 🙄

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Right, I’m off looking for leaf piles now…😀

Such a thug, ordinarily you’d think they’d be arrested themselves but now it’s free season for the nazis it seems 🤬

Fucking fascists! 🤬