If you were wondering how Twitter's currently going...

Today is 'Blue Monday', this is your annual reminder that Blue Monday is a bullshit *day* which was made up to basically sell you stuff, it's why you can't buy 'Happy Blue Monday' cards at Card Factory (yet)

(It is however a great song By New Order)

Lavarand - Wikipedia

Twitter's down!!!, it seems that Cloudflare might be partly to blame. Whilst investigating this I discovered that they use a *Random Number generator* based on actual physical Lava Lamps 😮
#groovyBaby

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

If you're feeling let down by The Salt Path debacle then you could download (or snap up the last few copies of) Pier Review.
A real tale of Coastal travel, friendship and swearing
(and the driver genuinely has gout)
amzn.eu/d/5cdbwvS

Blown down tree being impressively held up by a small Yaris car

Faark, those little Yaris's holding up better than those Musk yuppie tank things
(Via Kings Heath busybody group)

Christmas tree star decoration made from a can of beer.

🎶 "oH lItTle sTaR ov BeFleehEm!!"🎵

#tintoys #upcycling #crafts #diy #christmasdecorations

You know that late 80s Paul McCartney Christmas track "Keeping The Dream Alive"??......
Well sit down, ....because it was actually by some little known (in the UK) German band FreiHeit 😮

#Christmas
#thatschristmas
#christmasmusic

Happy World Men's Day
(though it's also World Toilet Day, make of that what you will)

#worldmensday

Promotional poster for an "Indoor Winter Wonderland" experience.

WoHoo, it's nearly *pictures of very disappointed families* season, it seems to come round quicker every year 🎅🌲

Aldi price display shop fitting.

Noo tH1ng lurNt todai: these price labels in Aldi are actually electronic "Paper white" displays 😮

(One was flickering and I had a mild "omg, am I in a Holographic simulation!?" existential freakout)

Found some rotting, but uncooked, bread yesterday that appears to have been placed by a bird nesting in a musical instrument.

Think it's mouldy old dough by a lute tenant pigeon.

#Lunchpun

Birman Cat asleep on Carpet

Visitor cat is visiting (dang thing's fell asleep)

Man sitting in a hammock in an old barn drinking a cuppa soup.

Cup a Soup in a dereict Bickenhill Barn...

#UKSun B26 5/10

Gravestones in amongst the chairs of a temporary bar marquee

The Christmas Market at St Philip's will have you drinking up close n personal with your ancestors.
#birmingham

BBC Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects

Birmingham's rag market is featured in the BBC's (now fully available) sound effects library.

#birmingham
#InternationalDayOfBirmingham

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=070...

Joe Lycett waving from the platform of a number 11 bus outside Birmingham Council House

Joe Lycett officially arrives for the International Day of Birmingham

#internationaldayofbirmingham

Headshot of Kenneth Cope in character from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

RIP Kenneth Cope
(So he wasn't actually dead?)

Carved, Red wooden voodoo ornament.

It's not cursed right? ....RIGHT??

Stacks of Bucket hats on a market stall

Those Rag Market guys hain't stoopid....
#oasis

Small Purple Chilli plant flower surrounded by dark Green/purple leaves.

My "Black" Chilli plant has brought forth a flower. 🌶️🌶️

#chilliplants

Some young upstarts, not the usual Cricket old boys

Black and white picture of a man reeling in a tug of war rope.

The last dog days of Summer being reeled in at the Barston Fete, get the wooly jumpers and slow cooker out.

#solihull
#barston

Small spirit burning stove made from two Tuna cans inserted into each other, vapour holes drilled around side

Burning DIY spirit/meths tuna can stove (surrounded by DIY beer can windshield)

I'll probably eventually be found dead buried under a pile of DIY meths stoves.
#camoing #wildcamping

Mike Leigh's 'Meantime' is a cheery piece of early 80s British kitchen sink cinema hain't it?
(Does anyone have a number for The Samaritans?)

"please see the reverse for your letter" printed on the blank back page of an official letter.

We're not going to make it are we?

I'm at a Monday afternoon Karaoke disco in a 'working mans boozer'. salúte

Very dead tree in front of some very alive trees

This tree ain't gonna conform to your bourgeois being alive standards.

Picture of Sheep in a field

I haven't seen Sheeps around the back roads of Solihull for a long while??

Punk band live on stage

Local heroes Rotunda right now
#punk