Blackpool Illuminations: An enlightening look behind the scenes

To drivers, Share The Road means "Get out of my way." To cyclists, Share The Road means "Please don't kill me."

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Evening all.

Whitbarrow Scar.

Afternoon all.

The Railway Hotel, Pleasington, Blackburn is hosting the Holcombe Hunt again today. So that’s somewhere that will never get my business then. www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2571626...

Think Trump’s Gestapo couldn’t happen here?

Oh, and Susannah Thornton has a Christmas Present for you all: youtu.be/gJjw51aFbF8?...

If you love trees and you've found yourself with a bit of extra time this morning - you might like my recent digest on the forest at first light. 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

You watching, America?

Move over Elf on the Shelf…

3 entries so far! 😁

This.

Fell runners please note. Entries for the Dark Un open tomorrow! Please RT www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?el...

Wenceslas Christmas I gave you my heart…

Morning all.

Merry Christmas!

‘Tragic country road collision’. Is that how we are framing it?

On last week's #buyastrangerabook day, @jenillustrates.bsky.social offered to buy a book each for an adult and a child. The children's book has gone, but Jen's offer to buy an adult a book is still up for grabs (£20 ish) If you are an adult & there's something you'd like, get in touch! UK only

It's #buyastrangerabook day & @melissaschuh.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a book. So if you'd like a book but aren't sure what, let Melissa know the kind of stuff you like reading. She will then give you a choice of 4 books. Pick your favourite & Melissa will pay for it! UK only GO!

I have 5 #buyastrangerabook day offers still unclaimed. And here's another one. @humanaqvi.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to £20. Yes. any book at all. So, if there's something you'd like, get in touch! UK only

Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible.

Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’

I think we reached the point where if Israel bombs Great Ormond Street Hospital in London the UK government will explain it was a terrible mistake & anyone who complains about it is a terrible anti-semite.

And digital ID is* such a great idea? Morning all. *NOT. youtu.be/AZnbTw9FsGQ?...

I keep reading all these emails about ‘last minute gifting’ as ‘last minute grifting’.

My 14 year old son Luca took me here after cricket training today. He said there is hope in that sky Mum, I’ve never seen anything like it, the locals said there are half a million starlings here. Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!

Monorail!

Shrooms 2 just dropped

This is really good. Makes you keen to search out songs that you were completely unaware of. RIP Mr Rea.

✨🍺 My All Time Best Pubs 🍻 Seems quite appropriate for the season - updated and revised the pubs I've gravitated to on my travels over the last 20 years. Cheers! 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

Good.

As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.

Stargazing in the Lake District: a new forest observatory opens in Grizedale

John Cleese is a very famous comedian. He comes from a showbiz family though - his brother Andrew’s act with the Lion was legendary…

National Robin Day. Here’s ’Fat Bob’.

Great article with @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social about encouraging less driving and more active travel to save the #NHS hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/h...

Calls for clarity from Reform UK on what is actually planned for at-risk care centres www.blogpreston.co.uk/2025/12/call... #ReformCareHomeScandal

Farage wants to bring a US-style insurance based healthcare system to the UK to replace the NHS. If you vote for Reform, this is what you’re voting for.

Morning all.

Evening all.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about geese. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’d be amazing to reach 5,000 signatures by the end of the year - enough is enough! Ban peat compost now. actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

E-legs.