5, 4, 3, 2, 1, booster ignition and lift off. Soon the bearanauts of Beartemis II will be orbiting the earth. @bosunthebear.bsky.social we are on our way to the moon. We are #bearsinspace

Every year Eric decorates a tree with the lovely eggs that his old friend Teddy Bear Mickey sent him from Germany many years ago 🐣

The Reform bots and bullies all out in force the days after the Gorton & Denton by-election alleging "family voting" and crying about sectarianism...

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

24 March 1816 Reverend William Cowherd died in Salford. At his Salford church he preached abstinence from eating meat, and his followers would later help form @vegsoc.bsky.social.

This is perfect. Honest Bob too stupid to sustain his own insincerity

23 March 1836 The first stone of the School for the Deaf and Dumb, and of Henshaw’s Blind Asylum, Old Trafford, was laid, the beginning of @henshaws.bsky.social.

Remembering my cousin Sjt James C Lucas 2/6 Lancs Fus. Died of wounds OTD 1918 at CCS after attempting to defend Templeux Le Gurerad against German Spring Offensive.Pre war he was Sjt in Church Lads Brigade in Middleton, Rochdale #ww1

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

21 March 1918, my 24 yr old Gt Uncle, Cpl Hugh Robinson, Lancs Fusiliers, was KIA on the opening day of the Spring Offensive. A Territorial, he left for Egypt in Sept 1914, was wounded at Gallipoli, fought at Passchendaele and must have seen so much horror. His mother always wore his photograph.

Flowering in the garden March edit: Borage,Japanese Qunince, Forsythia and Hyacynths #gardenstuff

@bendorbear.bsky.social Afternoon! Out finally having a quiet time gardening when it occurred to me - did we do March blooms in the garden and I missed it? Hope everyone's garden is blooming nicely with this sunshine #gardenstuff

@terriermcd.bsky.social look what you’ve started!! Just had to pop in Wickes for a hook and was overcome with the urge to ask if they sold buckets 🤣🤣

14 March 1957, a passenger plane travelling from Amsterdam crashed on its approach to Manchester Airport, hitting a house in Wythenshawe. All 20 people on board and two people in the house died.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Quote “This weekend DOVO Sedee in Meerdaal was called to a plane bomb that was found in the Kattenbos in Lommel.It was an American 500-pound bomb, which probably came from a crashed B-17 bomber.Because the bomb had not been dropped, the detonators were still intact & partially armed.” 📸DOVO Sedee

If you’re a Manchester professional /business person, interested in the city’s history and informal networking, join me for a lunchtime netwalk. On 21 April theme is Mancunian Celebrations - who and what brought crowds onto Manchester streets in centuries past www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Well I am an emotional wreck. I wasn’t prepared for the effect of the last Call The Midwife. Movingly done indeed .

Margaret Downes (sabred), Mary Heys (trampled by cavalry), Sarah Jones (truncheoned), Martha Partington (fell into cellar) died at Peterloo Massacre in Manchester 1819, protesting for voting reform. Women were disproportionately hurt and possibly deliberately targeted. #IWD

Out for drinks in Manchester last night & I had to pause at the #ww1 memorial in the now Britannia Hotel, back then it was a warehouse of S & J Watts.The 'Sentry',by Charles Jagger,stands opposite the memorial to those who fell during the war. Suspect many are 18th Manchester's Warehousemen & Clerks

Off to Manchester for this guided walk. Looking forward to it!

R is for Resurrection Men. #CemeterySaturday An illustration from @chriswoodyard.bsky.social's book, "A is for Arsenic."

It's been too long -- but new post is up "Fierce Fighting in a Wood." behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2026/03/fier... #FWW #poetry #WW1

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

Yes its a school night but its a little reward for cleaning the house top to bottom over the last 2 days. Sadly another friend lost her husband at the weekend. She lives in S Wales so we want to be ready to welcome her if she chooses to come back with us. Hug those you love chums ❤️

Move over Tommy Shelby, we've got some new Peaky Blinders in town! Calke Abbey's team had a go at recreating his iconic walk featured in the trailer for 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man', which was filmed on site. *Out 6 March in select cinemas and 20 March on Netflix. ** Image 1: © Netflix

Not every Mum wants a soppy card. Some want a vinyl record. Some want a retro lamp. Some want a groovy floral. Some want a proper brew. Four new Mother’s Day cards. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/mothers-day

Flowers for Henri and Henriette Henon, visionary manufacturers of the camper trailer in the 1930s. In 1944, they hid an injured American airman in a luxury caravan in the woods near Albert, which honestly had to be a fairly strange experience.

This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re celebrating some of the incredible creatures that live across Scotland’s diverse habitats, from woodlands and coasts to wetlands and farmland. When we protect these unique places, we also help countless species – great and small! 🌍

If your automatic go to is Premier Inn take a look at this. Blossom Street North, York. I discovered this behind the pelmet when the curtain stuck as I was trying to open them before leaving for train. I slept in this for 2 nights but Premier Inn not interested as I didn't report during my stay.

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

Celebrating St. David's Day today, 1st March, and all things Welsh, with this delightful little medieval dragon with golden wings.

Beautiful day for a visit to Clifford’s Tower - so impressed by the inside - and wonderful view from the roof

Found a little cheese shop in York which sells the most amazing halloumi fries and as luck would have it they had an Eric size replica of the shop!

So the Telegraph is taking this well

93 years ago, on the 27th of February of 1933, the Reichstag fire occurred in Berlin. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, confessed to lighting the fire. He was tried and executed. In 2008, he was granted pardon by the German government. The circumstances of the arson are still unclear. #otd 🗃️

Graceful in defeat.

This week in 1736 Ann Lee was born in Manchester. She was leader of the Shakers, whose worship involved ecstatic shaking, and who believed her to be the female manifestation of God. Shaker furniture, known for its simplicity and utility, continues to inspire designers.

"The monster opened its great toothed mouth and the sound that came from it was the sound of the Fog Horn itself. Lonely and vast and far away. The sound of isolation, a viewless sea, a cold night, apartness. That was the sound." Ray Bradbury, 'The Foghorn' #BookologyThursday 🎨 by Zdeněk Burian

Evening chums! Sorry we've gone quiet - social life is either a feast or a famine at the mo. Eric and I are off to York tomorrow for the weekend to meet a good friend so keep your fingers crossed for good weather! Been waiting to see the renovations to Clifford's Tower for (literally) years!

Found alone and emaciated in 2012, Panda was raised at Voi after losing her mother to poaching. This December, she came home for the holidays – and brought her daughter Panya ("mouse" in Swahili) with her. sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

The only Victoria Cross ever awarded to a professional footballer has gone on display at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, N. Yorks. 2nd Lt Donald Simpson Bell of Harrogate Syed for Bradford Park Avenue & died in WW1 in July 1916. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I may be biased but I think our little retirement village is one of the most special and peaceful places on earth

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the Met Police have said. He has been seen leaving his London home with police this afternoon. 1/2

Here I am having a holiday while lying about the government stopping me going to the Chagos Islands, where nobody can go without a permit. Still, who needs facts when your followers are thick and gullible?

Never thought it would be so exciting to see washing blowing in the sunshine 🤣🌞

21 February 1958 Manchester United player Duncan Edwards died after being injured in the Munich air disaster.

I would happily pay more council tax if my council replied to imbeciles in this way.