Digital (mis)transcription on Find my Past showing a 36 year old man born in 1835 whose occupation is allegedly 'Toddler'
Victorian Occupation of the Week (from the 1871 census).
Nice work if you can get it 😆
Typography on Pencils, parts 1-6. For it is National Pencil Day. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
We can’t be friends anymore 😮💨
We don't need 'Support' for Energy Bills
Bills need to be frozen
If the Energy Companies can't afford to stay in business they can be nationalised
Rishi Sunak gave them £200bn for nothing he could have nationalised them
Since they have made £500bn in profit it should be yours
It’s us in Watford again singing about a curry to the tune of songs by Queen 🤣
I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.
Remember buying this from the LTM shop when it was first published and it’s still very much a staple on my bookshelf after moving house four times since its initial publication!
A blue PeruRail diesel locomotive pulls a formation of similarly painted coaches as part of the Titicaca observatory train, which is currently making its way around a curved portion of track that runs through the Andes, alongside the Urubamba River
Managed to get a wee busman’s holiday too in Peru with two amazing train journeys. 🚞 Firstly, the train from Lake Titicaca to Cusco; around ten hours of stunning scenery up and down through the Andes. Then a return trip from Cusco to Machu Picchu Pueblo/Aguas Calientes. 😍
Still feels a bit weird being back home after a month away in South America.
Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.
Feels like a fever dream.
So much for protecting all grades from the threat of automation, huh 🤷♀️
My employer, and most of my colleagues for that matter, probably won't learn from this. And funny (or not) how absolutely no-one in my immediate workplace (or either union) has mentioned or known about the AI 'Smart Station' trial.
But ho hum.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/brian-mitche...
#MemeRailway
A colour film photograph showing a landscape scene in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. To the left of the image is a gaucho on horseback, tracking through an open plain under the middle of the sun and blue sky.
A colour film photograph showing a scene of gauchos of San Antonio de Areco and women in traditional Argentine dress, dancing and entertaining guests to their ranch, under the shade of the trees
A colour film photograph taken under the shade of the trees at an Argentine ranch in San Antonio de Areco. A gaucho lies on the grass in the shade whilst he watches one of his horses grazing beside him.
On a wooden table under the shade of the trees at an Argentine ranch sits a plate of freshly made empanadas
Missing the estancia and the gaucho life, 🇦🇷 San Antonio de Areco, February 2026.
🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100.
📸 Ricoh GR1V.
🧪 Dev/scan Tokyo Photo Lab, Buenos Aires.
#FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Travel #Argentina
Following medical advice, common sense, & having a good listen to my body, I’ve concluded the best course of action today is to rest.
The spirit was more than willing, but the body is broken. I still want to walk the route I’d pledged, so we go again in March. 💪🏻
www.justgiving.com/page/anne-ma...
Underrated 👌🏻
The highlight of my year thus far has been getting food poisoning from a sandwich I got out of Pret the other day; and having only just stopped vomiting, also deciding to walk a half marathon around London later on today.
Here’s hoping I don’t die, I guess. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m out by a few days, but…
Behold! 2026 in all its glory!
The last thing I need at this time of year is a near-miss with someone's CHILD. At a station I already have history with. 🙃 I implore those of you with teenage children (who travel to/from school without adult supervision) to remind your kids that railway platforms aren't f*cking playgrounds.
A variety of electronics from the late 90s to early 00s with translucent colored plastic cases
Nostalgia is a toxic impulse but also I miss the time when tech trends were things like "let's put everything in a translucent colored plastic case" instead of "let's add software to everything that lies and also accelerates climate change"
Thanks to anyone thats donated or shared thus far. I was a bit lax when I signed up with pushing the page, what with my recent return to work after long-term illness.
For those on the #MemeRailway - I've got a super team behind me holding a bake sale fundraiser at Harrow TCA next month.
I've struggled with ideation my whole life, but I'm fortunate to have an amazing support network. Back in September, I signed up to walk a half marathon this coming January 2026 to raise money for CALM, a suicide prevention charity, for those who are struggling.
www.justgiving.com/page/anne-ma...
So much of civilisation depends on people playing by the rules. Then people discover that, if they don't play by the rules, nothing happens! The sanctions most of us think are there actually aren't.
A system based on people being good chaps has no response when they stop being good chaps.
Nothing worse than getting into a heated debate in your workplace and a colleague (who may or may not have been complicit in ill-treatment) piping up saying how, “You were treated so badly by the manager.”
Why is it these people always pipe up with their “support” when it’s too late? 🙄
Trying not to cringe, but at the same time, it’s so aggressively ‘we-ignored-the-brief’ 🙃
I’m so glad I’m no longer in a role that requires me to use the work PCs/Outlook more than once a week, because it’s as if they cluttered it with whatever Microsoft junk add-ons they can go with. I don’t need Copilot to “tone down” my email when there’s a reason I’m being very direct.
A digital flyer featuring a background of a colour film photograph of a UK zebra crossing scene on a road in Chiswick, West London, with an aeroplane in the sky flying into some clouds. White text on top says 'Monad Presents 'Here & Now' Photo Exhibition 27/11'.
As ever, I'm terrible at promoting my own work, but on the off-chance that anyone is in London next week, I have two pieces being exhibited in a group exhibition.
📍 Morning Lane Studio, London, E9 6ND
📅 Thu 27th Nov
⏰ 8PM - 10PM
RSVP: partiful.com/e/NObR09kP7P...
Cheers!
#London #FilmPhotography
Obvs, I've not been a 'Miss' for a while, but to change that (or remove it), along with my first name, I've got to send back the replacement licence when it arrives, with a paper fucking D1 form that I can only get from a Post Office, send my marriage certificate, pay for Special Delivery...
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As an added bonus (cos patriarchy): For whatever fucking reason unknown to me, when I applied for my provisional at 16, the DVLA automatically added on the 'Miss' title. My husband has never had 'Mr' attached to his - it simply has his fucking name on his licence.
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Trying to replace my driving licence online means having to put in my passport number, which pulls up my name without a hyphen, which doesn't marry up with what's on my driving licence (which has the hyphen), and so I can't use my actual passport for ID verification, even though it's me, FFS. 😂
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Better still, with the UK government slowly shifting stuff over to digital and the one login, I'm now at a point where there are basically two official versions of me that don't matchup, which causes a fucking headache when trying to do something like replacing a stolen driving licence.
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On the rare occasion that you have a website that lets you input a hyphen in the 'First Name' field, you will then sometimes have to enjoy the immigration or flight crew interrogation of how 'Your name doesn't match the one in your passport', all because of a hyphen (yes - I'm being serious).
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