So there!

The Doubler Stones are a pair of mushroom-shaped natural rock formations located on Addingham High Moor. The stones are protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument due to the presence of late Neolithic and Bronze Age (c. 2800–500 BC) cup-and-ring carvings.

Walked past Becky and Rachel Unthank at Belsay Castle.

There's always a Brian Bilston poem to express my rage more calmly.

‘It was empowering’: Bradford considers the legacy of its city of culture year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Absolutely disgusting. He needs to be in gaol

Funny but a bit too close to the bone

Absolutely not…. I will not pay for nuclear projects in England - they’ve got all the money let them pay

Brewster’s Quarters #MakeAFilmCheaper

The French have had enough of speeding car drivers killing people, so now if you’re doing 50mph in a 20 zone or 100 on a Mway, off to jail for 3 months. And a £3,000 fine to pay for your lovely uniform, food and shelter. If only we had some politicians with such courage in the UK.

Irish Traveller, Galway, 1973, photo by Janine Wiedel, New York-born documentary photographer.

New Year raffle in aid of Ukraine.

For a Fistfull of Nickels #MakeAFilmCheaper

Good to see:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My son wrote a symphony about not caring if your car's tyre has no air.. It's written in the key of B flat.

And! I’ve been looking all over for this and finally found it

On This Day in History - December 29, 1170: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. #EVHistoryDaily

Pablo Casals (born #OTD in 1876) refused to perform in Nazi controlled countries and was a vocal critic of Franco's regime in Spain. In 1939 he was approached by the Nazis while living in Prades, to come and play for Hitler, which he refused. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

These figures need to be quoted every time the Countryside Alliance start claiming how important hunting is.

If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.

The Dictator was made in 2012.

Winter Evening, Llanberis, Snowdonia, painting by Martin Llewellyn.

In the 1970s when they started selling off council houses in Britain it was possible to borrow 3 times your salary and buy a house. Now it is 10 times. Tax second homes, empty homes, air b n b and use the money to enable councils to renovate and regenerate. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Titus Salt (1803-76) died on this day 1876. Textile manufacturer and politician, built Salt's Mill and the model village of Saltaire, away from the smoke and pollution of overcrowded Bradford.

Haberdashery shop, Manchester, 1976, photo by John Bulmer.

Raby Bingo, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

Berwick-upon-Tweed, November 2010, photo by Sally Ann Norman.

If this another country we'd say what it was. Tyranny and destruction of civil and legal rights.

Have you heard about the new court room streaming service? You can get a free trial.

Top deck of a Glasgow bus, 1995, photo by Martin Parr.

My son is 8yrs old now & the wife has only just seen that he resembles neither of us in his features.. "You've only just noticed?!" I replied, "Remember as we left the hospital and the baby pooed? Well it was then that you told me to go back in and change him!"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Frost in winter, who knew

My New Year’s resolution is to buy a massive Velcro wall. And I plan on sticking to it. #dadjokes

Emperor of the Sumerian Empire

If you thought there was nothing to see until spring, this Tom Blackwell image taken on a rainy day in January 2011 proves otherwise. It is one of several footpaths run through the rural Danefield Estate of Otley Chevin. The wonderful bright lime greens of moss and lichen clinging

Soon on TrumpRX, the Trump Iron Lung Much safer than the polio vaccination. Power it with your own clean coal mini power plant. <sarc>

Pope Leo’s “choice of Chicago native Ronald Hicks as Dolan’s successor is a clear signal of Pope Leo’s desire for a course correction in the US church, which many progressive Catholics, inc some in the Vatican, felt had allied itself too closely with the Republican Party www.ft.com/content/82fd...

Moron cakes! www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/don...

Good morning, James @nowthenthee.bsky.social & thank you. Yes, Cecil Osborne's depiction of the sky in "Farringdon Road" is superb, as you say. Here's a post-war sky-scape for you in "Redundant Vessels at Rye" by Walter Steggles, most likely from the 1960s although I can't be sure. #WalterSteggles

🤡 Brexiteers now reduced to defending their brexit shitshow with “Don’t blame us - blame the people in power.” But they chose the policy, set the red lines, poisoned the debate, and made the promises. 🧵

'Middlesbrough Suspension Bridge' (Stockton), John Edwin Wigston (b.1939) Durham County Council. Designed by Sir Samuel Brown, whose experience included building the 1820 Union Bridge over the River Tweed and the Royal Suspension Chain Pier at Brighton. the bridge opened on

The Hull Literary & Philosophical Society founded in 1822 as a "self help organisation" has just celebrated its 200th anniversary. 👇 BBC News - City institution celebrates 200 year history www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Queue around the Debenhams building on Market Street, Manchester, waiting for the doors to open at the start of post-Christmas sales, 1975.

Rochdale Winter, painting by Reg Gardner.

Extraordinary moment during miners’ strike when police and pickets forgot hostilities and played football. Nottinghamshire, March 1984, photo by Guardian's Denis Thorpe. Said it reminded him of the Christmas Day truce during WW1.

"In 2024, it is estimated there are more than 421,000 people living with all forms of dementia in Australia. Without a medical breakthrough, the number of people with dementia is expected to increase to more than 812,500 by 2054." — Dementia Australia

Dewsbury Town Hall, W. Yorks, a most impressive town hall built 1886-1889 reflects the rapid growth & increased wealth of the town where heavy cloth was made from recycled rags. The town specialised in the production of 2 types of yarn known as shoddy (knitted soft rags) & /1

A group of drug-dealing pianists have been arrested.. Police say they’re happy because all of them are key players.

Christmas row with the child over excessive screen time. Major sulks, looking to compile a list of tracks to help express teen angst. I thought some gentle stuff by The Cure and a steady progression to the Mission and The Sisters of Mercy. Any thoughts?