Nothing says 'early summer in Cumbria' better than a roaring fire in the pub

Just look at this #absoluteunit

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE SWIFTS HAVE ARRIVED IN CUMBRIA

“Not now Andy!” 👏👏😂😂😂😂 www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/blac...

#Starmer was DPP during Leveson. The Fleet Street press have never forgotten. That's it.

It doesn’t.

come get your black big bags They’re on offer ‘til December Come get your black bin bags They’re long and black and slender #totp

Chas And Dave invented British rap when they recorded 'The Sideboard Song'. Give it a listen. #totp

Hi-ho sil-VAH! You got me Lone Range-AH! #totp

Straight in with a BANGER #totp

Came second incredibly #TOTP

Her real name is Susanna Hasselhoffs #totp

This dude was MADE for wearing a black leather trilby #totp

My mama is literally at her line dancing group RIGHT NOW Poison, so stick that up your hair gel. Although I will concede that my daddy doesn't often rock n roll. #totp

YOU MADE ME MIDDLEMISS #totp

This was used to great effect in an episode of The Sopranos #totp

Mel C dressed as her stylist's idea of a skate punk #totp

15 miles in these ridiculous kicks today. Like wearing slippers. I detest the term 'absolute game changers' but I'm also a massive hypocrite, so they are indeed absolute game changers.

A few years back @adamtranter.bsky.social unearthed a fab vid in the London Archives entitled "Cycling in London c1980s" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXOR... The film included footage of traffic filtered streets - low traffic neighbourhoods - in the 1980s. Let's see if we can find them today 🧵

Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise. Source Footage Via: @lukebornheimer.com @streetsforward.org @sfbikebus.com

I very much like an R-bach. You know when it's tourist season because Penrith Aldi always sells out on a Friday night.

THE WAR ON MOTORISTS

Looking towards Frostwick, Ill Bell and Yoke last Friday morning - with Morecambe Bay and the Irish Sea in the distance - from Thornthwaite Crag. No sound but skylarks and a faint breeze. What a very special place this is.

Holy moses, that was a big day in the fells. 9 Wainwrights. I regret to inform you that I will not be attending Keswick Parkrun tomorrow.

Also called Thrips #totp

Was anybody asking for a building society advert cover version of There She Goes? #totp #totp2

Supergrass are the band Blur want to be when they grow up #totp2 #totp

Keir Starmer In pyjamas Is coming down the stairs

When Hawkshead Brewery shed most of its team and closed its tap room, I thought beer in Cumbria would suffer. I needn't have worried. My latest story for @pelliclemag.com is about the breweries and all the people and pubs that make up this county. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/4/...

This is a Viz spoof but I'd 100% go and see this

This car-centric horror is what currently passes for good news in my beautiful home town.

When we sold our house in LDN our LTN was listed as a feature by the estate agent. It was absolutely transformational.

“As you can see, it’s been brought to an entire standstill”. Except for the bike lane… that lady riding past couldn’t have been any better timed. 🤣

HE LITERALLY WROTE A LOAD OF BOOKS ABOUT IT

I'm now getting a windscreen fitted to me car. Mattocks. Garden shredders. Truly, the blokiest week of my life.

THE WAR ON MOTORISTS

First visit to the newly-reopened KPI. Tremendous. I'm unsure if I've ever been in. Maybe when I was a kid, when we were doing things like casually driving over Hardknott Pass in a 1968 Vauxhall Viva. It's exactly the sort of pub my mam and dad love.

A few years ago my dad got hit by a van when out cycling. He was almost killed and left permanently disabled due to 3 broken vertebre. The bloke who did it was speeding and fled the scene. Multiple previous offences. He served less than a year in prison. My dad still cant walk longer distances.

In what is surely yet another* step up the ladder of Blokedom, I've spent the afternoon feeding garden waste into a shredder *Now a mattock owner

Weather report: EXTREMELY CUMBRIAN

Phrases I never thought I'd say, part 5321: "I need a mattock"

I used to spend my Good Fridays terrorising the pubs of Soho

How soon is now? @thornbridge.bsky.social City of London pub alert. Much anticipated Wild Swan 99 Fetter Lane - replacing once loved White Swan - to open imminently this month. Beer already gone down the hatch, Wine & Drinks Menu posted. "Heavy cask beer offer" promised #BskyBeer

Just realised that I'm wearing a Berghaus fleece that is 15 years older than my colleague on the neighbouring desk.

Same, mate.

Well done everybody

About 85% of the April Fool stuff on Facebook seems to have been generated by AI.

Somehow our streets have become taken over by vehicles. We’ve allowed the needs of motor traffic to dictate the experience of everyone getting around or hanging around on our streets. 🚗 💨 🚚💨 🚦 And children have lost out more than any of us. We can do so much better. 🤸🏽 🤸‍♀️ 🛝🌷 🌳

You should probably learn about kerning before you start lobbing rocks from your particular glass houses, Mr Lopez and Mr Sanchez.

New York, 1985 - the great Alan Whicker and Richard Wrigley's Manhattan real ale brewery - complete with imported English dray horses. "I liked good beer, but there wasn't any in the States." youtu.be/Tj-hDDQHPas?...