My daughter & me are running in the Oxenhope Straw Race on Sunday. It’s a 3 mile race range in fancy dress with a 20kg bale of straw & drinking a pint of beer in each of 5 pubs on route to raise money for Manorlands Sue Ryder Hospice. Please donate. www.justgiving.com/page/martin-...

Happy days! Wonderful evening out in Dublin with my wife and one of my best friends daughter plus her partne

I just saw the Green Man! #greenman

Im not into arguing on social media. However, I’m quite proud of this very brief exchange. It was prompted by me advertising a public meeting about a planned Windfarm above our village.

I bagged a free ticket to see TTSSFU at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club tonight. The gig was good, they’ll go mainstream, but the highlight of the evening for me was getting to spend an hour chatting to @elizabethalker.bsky.social & her partner James pre gig.

Trump says Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' over Iran strikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... For once I agree with Donald J. Trump. Starmer is indeed no Winston Churchill. Churchill would have folded Trump in two & shoved his head up his own arse.

At 60 years old, I’ve done summat I never thought I’d have the balls to do. I’m promoting my 1st ever gig next Saturday in Halifax at my favourite venue, The Grayston Unity. If yer fortunate enough to live in or near the West Riding of Yorkshire, please do come.

I couldn’t resist sharing these photos of Beans. #whippet

Three weeks to go to the first gig I’ve ever promoted. I’m reyt nervous about it but for no good reason. I’ve booked two fantastic acts in a brilliant venue. Quality will out. Please come & support live music & independent venues.

Stick In The Wheel tonight at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge. Simply outstanding.

My pets share the same birthday. Beans the whippet is 6 today & Loki is 13.

My whippet, Beans is pretending to be asleep so he doesn’t get turfed into his perfectly comfy cave bed.

The Incident doing a cover of an original song by William Eyelash, or summat similar.

Beans has had 3 weeks of his pack being on holiday. All back home now & he’s happy!

After a fantastic two weeks inter-railing around NorthernSpain, I’m now on the Eurostar back to the land of the rising gammon.

Well, I was as ready to be raptured as I would ever have been but I felt nowt & it’s past the deadline here in Bilbao so I now declare Jesus & God are fakes & phoneys. Fuck ‘em.

Smashing couple of days in Oldstead, foraging, learning preserving methods and eating incredible food in a beautiful but not that well known part of Yorkshire.

When so much bad stuff is happening in this world, just having a pint with yer #whippet is sometimes yer best option.

Unfortunately osteoarthrosis has called time on my hockey umpiring career. I was never particularly good at it, I did it as I figured someone had to & if no one else did, my kids wouldn’t have been able to play hockey & they loved the sport, as do I. I will miss umpiring hockey matches.

I’ve recently agreed to manage Joe & his group, Doogle. Listen to this 2 1/2 minutes of pop perfection. We are headlining at The Parish in Huddersfield on Thursday 28th August. Do come & join us. music.apple.com/gb/album/set...

What a way to travel. Oxenhope to Glasgow by train. Stunning & relaxing.

Sometimes, when there is so much crap happening in the world, it’s good to see summat nice. This is my view this evening from my friend’s back yard in Stanbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire. #freepalestine

Jim Jones Allstars at Hebden Bridge Trades Club tonight. Simply wow!

Great fun today doing the mass Kate Bush Wuthering Heights dance on Penistone Hill, Haworth.

Whippet siblings. Beans’ sister Luna is visiting for the weekend.

When I was in my early teens, George Orwell was my favourite writer. To me, facism means to hate and seek division. To take pleasure in other peoples suffering. I reject this. I like people. I guess there are too few people who have read owt by George Orwell. We beat 1930’s populism in WW2.

George Orwell was my favourite author in my early teens. I thought his books would stop this ever happening again.

My daughter Tilda & me ran the Oxenhope Straw Race together today in fancy dress, in aid of the local Sue Ryder Manorlands cancer hospice. We dressed as Dumbledore & Bellatrix from Harry Potter, with our whippet Beans dressed as Dobby!

When our friend Jackie was trying to get a photo of us with our whippet Beans paying attention, she held a dog treat above her phone & said “look at the treat”…

www.justgiving.com/page/martin-... Tilda, Beans the whippet & me are running the Oxenhope Straw Race again this year In memory of my dad. 3 miles in fancy dress carrying a 20kg bale of straw uphill, sinking 5 pints of ale along the way.

Yay. I’ve made it to 60.

My whippet, Beans having fun with his sister, Luna today.

My whippet, Beans, giving his equivalent of thumbs up, to a temporary art installation on the moor above Haworth, Yorkshire. It’s a wooden framed tower covered in unprocessed wool. It looks spectacular.

A new discovery for me. Teelings Irish Whiskey. Distilled in Dublin. Highly recommend.

I walked from Oxenhope to Hebden Bridge over the moors today. Brontë -Wuthering Heights scenery. 9 miles with Beans my whippet. He loved it & nearly caught a rabbit. But 23°C in April at 450m altitude isn’t normal in Northern England in April. Beans is tuckered out.

⚠️ Top Withens in Brontë Country: unique protected Yorkshire peat bog under threat As we celebrate Earth Day, will the government let short-term cash trump the long-term conservation of our carbon-storing blanket peat bogs? By Nick MacKinnon yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/top-w...

Quite chuffed with this pic of @pigsx7.bsky.social from Friday in Manchester.

I try to buy local. When that’s not an option, I do my best to buy European.

For services to the pharmaceutical industries presumably.

When the world is falling apart, I poached some pears in red wine. They were good. I feel happier.

Green energy and wind farms are good. I think so, except when they’re built on blanket peat bog… Read this: markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...

Staying at a working farm in Northumberland due to my wife’s job. My daughter & me got to cuddle newborn lambs.

I think my daughter & me have worn our whippet out today! 14 miles for us, probably double that for him! He’s had his best day.

My whippet Beans having the best time at Embleton Bay beach this morning.

We need this in the UK

Whilst the world turns to shit, a day on a beach with my dog soothes my soul.

Winston Churchill not wearing a suit at the White House when he met FDR in 1942.

In worrying times, here are some photos I’ve taken today at Wells Next The Sea.

Anna B Savage and band were superb last night but why is it becoming more common for people to talk loudly, constantly & in large groups at gigs? Why don’t they just stayin the pub or restaurant? I don’t get it. I had to ask two different groups of people near us to pipe down last night…