I'm old enough to remember when the BBC was a reputable source of news and information. Had to think back quite a long time though!

Reform looking more and more like MAGA by the day.

Very true.

Ooh, a whole evening of Prog rock sounds great. Well overdue.
Unfortunately, that might be 3 songs.

Pink Floyd. Echoes: 23 minutes
Yes. The Gates of Delirium: 22 mins
Jethro Tull. Thick as a Brick 1 & 2: 43 mins

and don't even mention Mike Oldfield! 🤣🤣

Just put our house on sale. It’s up for a bit more than that!

Yes. Still lots of Welsh-medium Primary schools in Wales.

John Muir’s Birthplace Museum. The image shows an oblique view of one side of a street in Dunbar. A stone building on the right and a blue-painted building on the left sandwich a three-storey and three bay wide white building with a red pantile roof. It is flying the Saltire and the US flag. The scene is in sunshine.

188 years ago today. John Muir, who convinced US President Theodore Roosevelt that Yosemite should be protected as a national park, was born in Dunbar in East Lothian on 21 April 1838. Today his birthplace is a museum about him. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #EastLothian

As a Brit I am not really interested in baseball, but this film was about so much more than that... and it has a great cast including (in his last film role) Burt Lancaster as Dr Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham....a real life player and physician.

Irish was the first language for my Granny and Granddad out on the West coast of Ireland, and mum always spoke Irish when she 'went home'. I had to concentrate to get every word when they spoke to me in English, as the accent was very strong.

Gaelic areas unclassified (small numbers I guess). My parents were Irish language speakers and the pronunciations are quite a challenge.
I visited schools in Sweden and almost everyone could speak English to a decent standard. When only 10-11 million speak a language, it pays to be bilingual.

A few people on here giving a shout for All Is Lost (2013), written and directed by J. C. Chandor, and held throughout by the great Robert Redford.

Also, the great little thriller The Last Voyage (1960) with Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Edmund O'Brien, George Sanders, Woody Strode.

Happy Birthday @georgetakei.bsky.social
Live long and prosper.

This is what a Reform candidate thinks of the greatest achievement of Democracy in the UK (The NHS). I guess he would prefer the USA system, which equates to paying through the nose via insurance companies, going bankrupt, or dying. Oh, and 'big pharma' shareholder profits.

Brilliant. Sound up!
Maxi Jazz, gone far too soon. RIP

The Ford American V8 version of a 'woody'. 8 seater!

Unfortunately, every generation has/had style choices which were challenged. It was platform shoes and long hair for me in the 70's.

As a former teacher; there are many successful education models in other countries that emphasise teaching, learning & mentoring, rather than hair, makeup & uniform.

Saw that tour in May, in the UK. They played 27 songs in total, starting with Born to Run and ending with Rosalita, plus 4 song encore. Epic.

A stone cold classic.

DYK that the writer Nigel Neale picked the name Quatermass out of a London telephone directory.

A quintessentially British story, they cast the American actor Brian Donlevy to help USA sales. Sadly, he was too ill for the follow up, Quatermass and the Pit.

We know exactly what Trump fan-boy Farage would try to do to democratic government in the UK. We have already seen it in the USA.

Just back from a Dublin to Galway road trip, visiting cousins. Love the look and sound of the Irish language. It was the first language in my mum’s childhood home, and Granny hosted Irish Language College students each summer. Dramatic sounds to a boy from Essex!

Two great participants of #Taskmaster. I think the essential joy of Taskmaster is in watching normally rational, intelligent people slightly lose their mind's (on camera).... oh, and the irrational indignation of not always being awarded enough points (Ed Gamble) @alexhorne.bsky.social

Ceardlann An Spidéal — Spiddal Craft Village & Cafe Ceardlann is renowned craft village & an award-winning Café in Spiddal, Galway where artists come together to create some of the best local Irish crafts and arts. Glass art, basket weaving, traditiona...

Picked up a lovely print by Geraldine O'Rourke at Spiddal Craft Village, out on the West coast of Ireland. Well worth a visit, if you like art and are in the area.... and An Spidéal (Spiddal) is where my mum was born & grew up.

#Ireland #art #coast #Galway #WildAtlanticWay

www.spiddalcrafts.com

Memories of being taken to the cinema by my mum, with my sister. Those were the days of an 'intermission' in the middle of the film. Much needed with a 197 minute film.
1965 was also the year of The Sound of Music (174 minutes).

Just drove across the Burren in a little east to west road trip, while over from the UK. Amazing geology and natural landscape.

Have to admit, we tend to avoid a lot of British people when we travel; even though we are British. Even saw a bloke wearing a number 10 FARAGE football shirt by the swimming pool once. Might as well write 2 THICK on your back.

We visited Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a few years back. It's the final resting place for 150 Titanic victims, the largest number in the world.
There is a "J. Dawson" Grave there. He was a 'coal trimmer' from Ireland (not the fictional 1997 film character).

That silky voice must be one of the most recognised voice-overs on the planet.
Has played the US President twice (shame it wasn't for real).

Michael Caine has spoken of lying about his ability to ride a horse to get the part in this, his 'big break' film. Hence the close-up shots on horseback tend to be from the waist up.

DYK Mangosuthu Buthelezi played his great-grandfather King Cetshwayo kaMpande in the film.

Brings back memories of 30p Lee on the campaign trail to a 'supposedly' unknown voter, who he had already phoned in advance.

Resisted the urge to visit Hungary under Orban. I feel a road trip is now on the agenda.
Resisting any current trips to USA for the same reason. Best wishes to our many American cousins.