Pond like a mirror Reflecting the gazing face Of the sky-held moon

Steelworks, Ebbw Vale, south Wales, 1951, painting by Nan Youngman, 1906-95, English artist (Newport Museum and Art Gallery).

Well, that medical I did a couple of weeks ago was ‘wrong’ apparently, so I had to go today and do it all again. I still believed I still wasn’t sure I still clicked I still passed ✅ I need coffee ☕️☕️☕️

Today is National Umbrella day ‘The Ladybird ABC, 1959’ Artist: G Robinson

It’s MkIV time. On the cushions from Doncaster to Peterborough, coffee and a comfy seat. Get em while you can!

If the last 24 hours are anything to go by, it appears that BlueSky has as many arseholes jumping to conclusions, missing context, and lacking comprehension as Twitter does. Do better, America. Kind regards, British BlueSky 🇬🇧

Before anymore Americans reply to this post, understand I am not American. Most of the world isn’t. I am British, and whilst I’m aware that most of the world isn’t British either, our next General Election will be in 2029. That’s when it will be.

What is this profound ignorance, and indeed confidence, held by particular people that they think there’s going to be an inevitable General Election soon? Inevitable, my arse. Who’s telling them this? 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 There isn’t going to be a General Election.

Grey Skies. 8°C with an occasional ray of sunshine. Sheep on the hills.

The most surprising thing here is that Labour had a Director of Communications. The Govts PR machine has been woefully nonexistent since day one.

“Heavy rains that often fall in February have flooded the low-lying meadows in the broad valley.” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Well, it was on the back of my train, so we’re keeping it! #FindersKeepers

Reform PLC, the natural home of industrial scale tax dodgery…

So, Trump is a senile old prick, posts something he clearly thought was funny, the world tells him it’s far from funny, and that he’s a senile old prick, so he deletes it, blames a member of staff, who is now out of work, and that’s that? Right 🙄

Well, it was on the back of my train, so we’re keeping it! #FindersKeepers

Coffee time…

It’s a bit grim up Sheffield mountain this morning… #Tinsley #Yorkshire

It’s grim down south… #Huntingdon

Back to plain old Peter, then. More British scalps to come, no doubt… When are we going to see some defenestrations and resignations in the US? #EpsteinFiles

It’s grim down south… #Huntingdon

Allez les Bleus! 🇫🇷

“It was a this point that I slipped on the wet tiles. My trousers then fell down and, I regret to say, the artillery piece entered me…”

“Hospital evacuated as man found to have WW1 artillery shell in rectum” A difficult day for le squad de bombe…

Goodwin must die a little inside each time he's out for pints and a curry with the Reform lads. You can pretend as much as you want that you're happy to be sitting next to Lee Anderson as he farts his way through a prawn vindaloo but we all know it's killing him.

Ooof! Twitter is an absolute maelstrom today, full of muddled MAGAs, flustered fascists, and rattled right wingers. The confused conspiracists are trying to double down and deflect while the thunderstruck Trumpers are all at sea. Meanwhile, Musk claims no knowledge…

The railway station in Ladybird Land - captured in Treasure magazine, 1963 (Artist: Don Harley)

“More people despair over “broken” Britain than during financial crisis” I wonder why, The Telegraph, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sun, BBC, GB “News”, Farage, Reform etc and so on…

Learn the lessons of the last Tory Govt. The Conservative Party were destroyed by falling for this same media narrative, changing PMs every other year, because of the polling of people who wouldn’t have voted Tory anyway. It’s irrelevant.

Medical passed ✅ #JustClickIt

Medical today… I shall be in the ‘Headquarters Offices Northern Command’ building. I must be due a promotion. #York

The Telegraph: never knowingly beaten at providing the shittest of takes, surpasses even itself with this interpretation of the UKs latest murder rate statistics…

Nosey!

Blue skies in Huntingdonshire…

Right, I’m on the cushions to Middlesbrough to fetch a train back to Doncaster from Tees Dock. Let’s see how far we get… #StormChandra #Doncaster #Yorkshire

Nice to read that Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman have always got on. After all, where would we be without mutual respect and admiration..? What? Oh… #ReformUK #TurquoiseTories

The Tories must be so relieved that this crank has defected to Reform. As the Conservative Party continues down the road to relative normality, Reform PLC just gets weirder and weirder. Truss is next.

Taking the fast road tonight. I’ll be driving 66507 with Leeds to London Gateway on the East Coast Mainline from Doncaster to Peterborough. It’s very dark out there. Once I get away from the city lights I’ll be feeling my way through the countryside… ✨🌙 💫

Dear Blockee, I block you for the same reason I scrape dog shit off my shoes. Not because I'm “afraid” of dog shit, but because dog shit has no inherent value, creates a huge mess, and makes everything smell like dog shit. Just to be clear, in this analogy, you are the dog shit.

New tariffs, insults and threats of invasion by President Trump have triggered a backlash in Davos, and the reactions from many U.S. allies and partners are stark: Trump’s America seems to have lost its mind. on.wsj.com/45lJYrM

NATO & Denmark: We will give you the exact same security arrangements you have had for the past 40 years in Greenland. Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!

Farage can thank himself lucky he’s not a working class woman with a northern accent, otherwise the media would be hounding him out…

One of my favourite of the images of Sheffield created in the early 20th century by artist Walter Hayward Young (1868-1920) for postcard manufacturer Raphael Tuck. He often signed his work by the pseudonym Jotter. In his lifetime he created more than 800 such designs.

Live footage of me, listening to Gavin Newsom, a senior member of the party that screwed the last election and is still failing to provide any meaningful opposition, not to mention a citizen of the country who voted for this shambles, telling Europeans we are pathetic for not standing up to Trump.

Cue Trump and his gangster mates buying all the shares on the cheap,Trump stops threatening Greenland and Tariffs, shares rise, bingo! 💵💵💵 Come on people, this is presidential corruption.

Blue Monday today, apparently Urban myth I think, created by the travel industry to get us to book more sunny holidays, but no one can deny the greatness of this tune! New Order, of course *presses play*

Andrew “National Anthem” Rosindell has turned his coat and joined Reform. Most famous for campaigning to get BBC Radio to play the National Anthem at the end of the days broadcast, even tho BBC Radio 4 has always played the National Anthem and still does to this day…

Drove a million miles in these, and they were always “fun” in leaf fall season before the sanders were fitted. Weren’t much better after they were fitted tbf, but it was sad to see them like this Nostalgia will have you believe, as with all things, that they weren’t so bad but they were pretty grim

I’m off for a drive in the country with 66543 and 1600 tonnes of train. It’s dark out tonight… ✨🌙

I’m off for a drive in the country with 66543 and 1600 tonnes of train. It’s dark out tonight… ✨🌙

Shell-Mex House, Strand 1931 Messrs Joseph Image from RIBApix