"Doctor, I've got this nagging pain in me forehead"

Also called Thrips #totp

Was anybody asking for a building society advert cover version of There She Goes? #totp #totp2

Supergrass are the band Blur want to be when they grow up #totp2 #totp

Keir Starmer
In pyjamas
Is coming down the stairs

My Heart Leaps Up — Beer, Graft and Tourism in Cumbria — Pellicle I first met Matt and Michelle when they worked at Hawkshead Brewery, Matt as the head brewer, and Michelle as the head of marketing. In the 2010s, Hawkshead was the pride and joy of Cumbria’s independ...

When Hawkshead Brewery shed most of its team and closed its tap room, I thought beer in Cumbria would suffer. I needn't have worried.

My latest story for @pelliclemag.com is about the breweries and all the people and pubs that make up this county.

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/4/...

Spoof Viz comic advert featuring a John Betjeman tribute act

This is a Viz spoof but I'd 100% go and see this

North Street, High Street and East Parade are unbelievably hostile for anyone not in a car. You're not even safe on the pavement.

And In France that car park would be required to be covered in solar panels.

Page 1 of the Keighley News with a headline saying 'restaurant plan to create 60 jobs' showing a MacDonalds branch in a vast car park

This car-centric horror is what currently passes for good news in my beautiful home town.

(anecdote alert) - it was definitely an attraction for some of the potential buyers according to the EA, and not seen as a drawback.

When we sold our house in LDN our LTN was listed as a feature by the estate agent. It was absolutely transformational.

“As you can see, it’s been brought to an entire standstill”.

Except for the bike lane… that lady riding past couldn’t have been any better timed. 🤣

Is John Dalton any relation?

I genuinely think that some of them are his idea of a joke

And Birkhouse Moor 🤔

HE LITERALLY WROTE A LOAD OF BOOKS ABOUT IT

It's a rite of passage for mag designers :-(

I've got a ton bag that the logs came in.

I'm now getting a windscreen fitted to me car.

Mattocks. Garden shredders.

Truly, the blokiest week of my life.

Outlived the young pretender Carling Prem!

THE WAR ON MOTORISTS

Lovely, isn't it? The Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery have some great branding.

Pint of stout at the Kirkstone Pass Inn, Cumbria

First visit to the newly-reopened KPI. Tremendous.

I'm unsure if I've ever been in. Maybe when I was a kid, when we were doing things like casually driving over Hardknott Pass in a 1968 Vauxhall Viva. It's exactly the sort of pub my mam and dad love.

A few years ago my dad got hit by a van when out cycling. He was almost killed and left permanently disabled due to 3 broken vertebre.

The bloke who did it was speeding and fled the scene. Multiple previous offences.

He served less than a year in prison. My dad still cant walk longer distances.

I think I saw Stinky Blowback support Swervedriver at Bradford Queen's Hall

Oh, I've mattocked

In what is surely yet another* step up the ladder of Blokedom, I've spent the afternoon feeding garden waste into a shredder

*Now a mattock owner

I've already got my Dryrobe on, and I'm sat in the kitchen

Weather report: EXTREMELY CUMBRIAN

"Here he comes again. Bloody mattock man"