The weather may be a bit crappy but on the positive side, Rutland Water looks healthy. 👍🏻

I passed this classic sign today. It’s not my photo though as I didn’t get a chance to stop, but it did make me laugh.

On the train to the Ely beer festival this morning I noticed that the RTV 31 is being dismantled. Hopefully to be preserved rather than to be scrapped.

The national police air service are certainly busy around my way this afternoon.

Really nice in the Frothblowers this afternoon. Very quiet and relaxing. Nice to have a dark beer on too. I’ve had 3 of them but I can’t remember what it was.

I’ll definitely not be getting touch with weights and measures after asking for half.

Meanwhile, in the streets of Europe ...

I have a blood test at the end of the month and a few days after that I just know that my diabetic nurse is going to go mad.

It’s only 10 o’clock and these bad boys are going in my ears, it already sounds like the Somme battlefield outside of my bedroom window.

Well here we are. Tonight’s the night I go to bed about 9ish with industrial earplugs in.

An 11% sweet sipping stout in my Stoneworks glass. A sad reminder of another great bar we lost this year. Here’s to you Steve, Shaun, Nikita and co.

Times change and The Bumble Inn is sponsoring a new loo.

This house doesn’t like the other houses across the road

A really nice story to read, it restores your faith in people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So very true and quite sad, as a society we’ve definitely been conditioned by capitalism.

This is always a great treat in the winter months. Time to crack open my first of the year. Smooth, oaky and very boozy.

One more day at work then 12 days off supporting the pubs of Peterborough. 🍻

The bar is to the left.

I’m quite content. I’ve left it very late but I’ve finally had a few warm mulled ciders at my local micropub (The Frothblowers). And very nice they were too. 🍻

I love this story, I save it in my favourites and read it every year. I’m not religious but every year consider attending Kings College Chapel.

The only Xmas album worth listening to.

If you also have a real Christmas tree, consider paying Sue Ryder to collect and recycle it in January. If you’re in Peterborough, your donation will go to funding Thorpe Hall, a resource you hope you never need but is there if you do. www.sueryder.org/get-involved...

Introvert language translated: “Maybe I’ll come” - I’m not coming “I’ll let you know” - I’m not coming “I’m not sure yet” - I’m very sure that I’m not coming “I’ll try and come” - I won’t try anything “I’ll think about it” - I won’t think about anything, I’m not coming

Nerd humor coming your way 😂

'Please don't miss this train at the station 'cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you' - 'Love Train' by The O'Jays (1972) - 📷 Grantham, England, 1961, taken by Jack Ray

A few pints in my great local micropub and a takeout for later. Sunday afternoons at their best.

And to think that almost exactly a week ago last Saturday evening I was stood at a very quiet Huntingdon station waiting for my train back to Peterborough.

A stunning soundtrack that deserves to be better known.

I feel quite sad.

I miss evening rail travel in the dark, Huntington Station I quite like.

The full 22+ minute album version. Epic!

Dear YouTube video people who are showing me how to do a human thing, Please just tell me how to do the thing without minutes of building up to telling me how to do the thing. Your 7 minute video could be 45 seconds. Best wishes and thank you for showing me how to do the thing, Katie

Easily one of the most beautiful film scores ever recorded. It’s just lovely, Stephen Oliver died far before his time.

I called by the site of the Sutton Cross this morning. I was quite sad/disappointed to see the state of the site. I really thought that it may have been restored again by now. I took the picture with the cross intact in 2015.

For the first time in a couple of years I risked crossing the footbridge by the River Nene. There’s a hungry tree close by you have to sneak past quietly.

I’ve just been asked politely if I can move seats in a pub as they’ve an acoustic singer coming in ….and he needs a plug socket for his keyboard!

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

Coffee break at the mouth of the Nene again this afternoon. ☕️

I love my part of the world @kejamieson.bsky.social

Bob Holness really was a great sax player! 🎷

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

'Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station, every Friday night' Remembering Terence Stamp, who has died at the age of 87 📷 David Rostance

When they start brewing Leffe Blonde in the UK you know it’s time ‘to go’.

I miss Bob Monkhouse more than ever.

The lovely Launde Abbey near Leicester earlier today.

Peaceful Jervaulx Abbey.

Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire.

Lovely to spend a couple of days T’ up in North Yorkshire. Who doesn’t love a castle. Middleham Castle.