Well. Whaddya know?

Dozens of Dutch school kids gliding past on bikes, headed to a field trip with their teacher. This is what safe cycling infrastructure enables.

Makin' a tiny Tamiya tank

SW London cafes of the mid-‘70’s. This must be right up the strasse of at least one person I know on here. www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/p/grenv...

Quick pint and then off to set fire to Edward Woodward on the bowling green

leaf soup, roast leaf, steamed leaf, braised leaf in leaf sauce, leaf in the basket with sautéd leaves, leaf meringue pie, leaf sorbet. We sit on leaves, we sleep in leaves, we feed the cat on leaves, we burn leaves, we even wear the bloody things

I once got mistaken for Miles Hunt in Carlisle Woolworths. True story. #totp

Team Jarvis Cocker #totp

IS NOBODY GOING TO MENTION THE LADYBIRD #totp

Oh my days. Soft Cell. Tune. #totp

Ol' Julian Churches there #totp

Just before the 2019 general election I met two blokes in a pub who said they were going to vote for Johnson because "it'll be a right laugh".

Well done everyone

An historic moment - the arrival of the first £10 pint: Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

At the

Well. That's a first. Commuting to work in a Gore-tex coat, boots and waterproof pantaloons.

Yet another treasure from the BBC Archive. Hartsop, Berwick, Pevsner. Heysham's rock-cut graves. And accents that no longer exist. "mind the rats plese" youtu.be/ZI3e3WS8mFM?...

Sent a hundred-page magazine off to the printers today. Checked each proof three times. Feel like I've been in a fight.

'One man on a lonely platform One case sitting by his side' - 'Fade To Grey' by Visage (1980) - 📷 Doncaster, England, 1981, taken by Syd Young

FIRE'S ON LADS

All the gemütlichkeit. Early evening at The Harp in London. Theatre techs with earpieces. Visitors. Old friends.

The saddest chair in Yorkshire.

At Disneyland Paris there's the Toad Hall 'British Pub' which has more of a resemblance to one of those hearty pub-restaurants you find at the top of German mountains after staggering off a cable car.

Paris is one of my favourite places on Earth. Used to be very frequent visitor although I'd not returned for 8 years until this week. In the interim it's been transformed from a city of motorcyclists/scooterists to a city of cyclists. Makes a supremely liveable city even better. Still too many cars

'Fountain' by Marcel Duchamp. 1917.

Found this bakery in the 11th arrondissement in Paris which specialises in Sean Bean croissants and baguettes

Blackpool gets a lot of bad press but it was way nicer than I expected

31% of British children live in poverty

How do these arseholes sleep at night?

"The Edge is fine" #accidentalalanpartridge

Well, I quite enjoyed House Of Dynamite. Even though I had to watch it with the subtitles on because mumbling=acting these days <Oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif>

I could just sit in the Travellers Rest in Glenridding and pretend I'm out completing the Wainwrights

Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Fell Brewery's Ghyll, at their bar in Penrith. What could be better than a Saturday afternoon pint of cask ale in absolutely, faultlessly, perfect condition?

Luv me coffee Luv me toast Luv me Saturday mornings Simple as

Find us at the #Ingrow Station @worthvalleyrailway Music & Beer Festival

Now having my third attempt at "getting into" Seinfeld.

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SPEED LIMITS ON LBC AGAIN

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll

I know it's a cliché to call 4x4s panzers but the zig-zags and double yellows by my local primary look like Rommel's mustering point outside Arras in 1940.

Look, we hate craft beer as much as the next person but it's rapidly approaching the end of 2025 and we've just seen a fairly well known satirical spoof news site doing a story about how there's lots of IPAs with stupid names and hipsters like them. Mind boggling.

The Germans should have just used Decathlon's online returns system instead of Enigma. Even Bletchley Park would struggle to send back a mis-sized anorak.

Arnison's department store Of Penrith is closing in December - after 275 years of trading. A great shame. The business is still profitable. Hopefully someone will take on this grand old lady.

Took three years but I found my first miserable Cumbrian.

Does anyone here look like they're having a good time?

mate I'm just trying to plant some daffodil bulbs ffs

This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up, with all sorts of great stuff, including several responses to one of our own posts from earlier in the week. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

"In my early days of drinking, back in the 1990s, often the only way of knowing if a pub was posh was the clientele. The pub itself looked exactly the same as the other ones, except all the punters were wearing Hunter wellies." Some great nostalgia in Will's latest.