Cats, though

"Terriers have proved of considerable assistance. Trains full of dogs have been despatched to the front, and poison has been fairly effective. Lately a reward has been offered for every dead rat brought in by men in the trenches" More from 1916 – georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/1...

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

Magnificent reverberating echo under this railway arch

If you know someone, perhaps an elderly related who owns films and equipment, but wishes to dispose of them, please contact us, via the website: filmisfabulous.org.uk/contact/

New year, new website. Have a look. See if you’d like to hire me! www.andrewcandish.com

Acting is mostly auditioning…

South Bank ready for NYE party animals

how all youtube ads sound to me

An actor’s job is mostly auditioning… :) Done loads of medical roleplay for students’ exams. A great exercise in ‘reacting truthfully under imaginary circumstances’, needing a head for detail and the occasional swerve into improv. And done mostly lying down.

Fascinating insight into how mail was delivered to the trenches.

Happy International Mountain Day! Here’s Leum Uilleim

Yeh, well, I just gotta be me!

Whizbangs active. Saxons throw parcels of fags across. Cold & frosty. Interview with Saxon. Corporal educated Dresden University. Only for war would have been at Cambridge. More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...

UK arts funding over the last 15 years: 2010: Arts Council cut by 30% Culture funding cut by 50% UK Film Council closed 2022: London arts funding cut by £56m 2025: DMCS budget cut by 15% Yet last year the Arts generated £126b for the UK economy, making them the UK’s fifth largest industry.

A HUGE THANK YOU Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity. Please share.

At the height of Dalekmania, Daleks would have to arrange elaborate travel plans, including decoy vans and body doubles, to keep throngs of screaming fans at bay. Some days, the crowds outside Riverside Studios were so large, Daleks would have to film their scenes at home.

Another Film Collection Over 1,000 films from a former industry professional are being collected by the Film is Fabulous! team on Tuesday. These will be catalogued and preserved. More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-...

Film is Fabulous are doing such vital work. They need support from people like us who care about preserving media, to help assess, transport, catalogue, store and acquire film collections. Donate if you can afford it! 🙏 filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... ⬇️

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Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"

Glorious

"It's terrifying." 🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard. Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...

“That’s a whole different kettle of fish” in other languages... 5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish) 4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French) 3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish) 2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay) 1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)

"You must come and see our dugout. It is a treat as we have a wooden floor in it and cover the ceiling and walls with canvas to prevent the mice throwing soil on us." For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...

In the last few years my workplace has lost a lot of staff with international heritage. It’s less interesting, less delightful.

"Whistling for London taxis was banned, people were forbidden to loiter near bridges, it was an offence to buy alcoholic drinks for other, and fines were issued for making white flour instead of wholewheat." More on crime in #WW1 georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/9...

Letter from George in the trenches to his seven-year-old brother "The Huns sent a few shells over this afternoon searching for our artillery and smashed our ration cupboard and dirtied our clean plates." georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...

Acting is mostly auditioning, so turn yer phone off…

'On reaching the German trenches, the British were naturally pleased to find coffee, which had been kept hot in a huge Thermos flask, as well as cognac, cigars and cigarettes.' More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/3...

An English phrase for describing two things (or people) that are completely different is “like chalk and cheese.” A similar phrase in Czech is jako nebe a dudy. It means “like heaven and bagpipes.”

Killing children. Starvation as a weapon of war. Targeting aid workers. These are all RED LINES. Many more have been crossed by Israel. As the UK gvmt breaks for summer, we demand it takes action to end its complicity in these atrocities in #Gaza bit.ly/RedLine__Mosaic#Gaza 📸 Andy Aitchison / Oxfam

Left London 23rd 5am At Lpool 10am George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Equity President, Lynda Rooke, shares some wise words outside the High Court this morning. We now wait for the judgement in the coming weeks. Win or lose, Equity will always keep fighting for our members.

Today is the day. We're at the High Court as Equity's case against Spotlight's fees is heard. Read about the case: tinyurl.com/EquityCourtCase

Lovely info here on how British soldiers used local place names in the trenches

Why are Spotlight's fees a 'tax on hope'? Ahead of our upcoming legal case against Spotlight, Equity Vice-President Jackie Clune breaks down exactly what the ‘tax on hope’ is and why we’re fighting for fairness in our industry.

Needing a duvet is a distant memory

Fine sunny morning Heavy rain in the afternoon Move off to firing line at 7pm Long weary march up to the line through teeming rain. Enter through long commun ication trench many chaps miss floor boards + fall in mud + water. [...] More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/1...

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

Ugh

OTD 1915 one British soldier in Flanders was eating, fishing, sleeping and appreciating art. Being able to compartmentalise may have helped him to cope with the constant sonic reminders of the horrors of the continuing war.

How to entrap me

📣Behind the Scenes: share your story of working as an actor or stage management in the current climate Take the Actor’s Benevolent Fund (ABF) survey now: surveysconnect.co.uk/WebProd/cgi-... To thank you for your time, you can enter a prize draw too!

PLEASE SIGN @equityuk.bsky.social's OPEN LETTER TO #PACT - DEMAND *BETTER* IN AI. Takes 30 secs and will send a strong message during our current negotiations with PACT. Thank you. 🙏🏻✊🏻 www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...

Feels like a metaphor for my life haha

Turns out Scotland’s midsummer sunset is about an hour later than London’s. Take that, London.

Indulging my Scottish genes. The walk on the Road to the Isles from Corrour to Rannoch is glorious.