Saw a bloke (mid 30's) riding an electric scooter today, with a toddler in a child's car seat strapped to the front, I shit you not.

Lesser Grey Shrike, Winterton Dunes, Norfolk, 28/9/25. My 4th for the UK, and 2nd for Norfolk. #birds 🪶

I love this spooky vibes photo from my evening in Lancaster. It's giving haunted Hovis

The Police Act 1861

The devil is at my shoulder, but I'm going to be good. 😂

...And these two got a free sausage... #BTPosse

There's not much to Cockerham now, once the food van's closed everyone drifts away. It was once a canal port, cargo transferred to narrow boars to be taken inland. Once very busy, there's a quietly ghostly atmosphere here.

Kilmore stone row (aka Dervaig B) on the Isle of Mull. A dreich kind of day a few years ago now, when the pine plantation was in the process of being felled, leaving the ground raw and stubbly but also revealing what may have been the stones’ original views to the horizon! #StandingStoneSunday

Steve went to go see his parents this weekend. They are very proud of him for trying his best.

It's like Crap Dracula.

Nature is healing

Seven Films.

The English rarely understand the difference between the Scottish highlands and lowlands.

Old jobs I'd be interested in applying for: Railway Fogman Signalman Lighthouse Keeper Crossing-Keeper Coalman (with horse) Milkman

Donkeys at my local animal sanctuary having a party to celebrate one of them living there for 20 years.

Get over yourself: it's a Barbour wax jacket. Always was, always will be. #Biased

The British attitude to ID cards should not be underestimated.

This is my dad's torch, which I inherited some years ago. It's 90 years old and still works. I've got an LED bulb ordered to bring it into the 21st Century. It's a miner's lamp, but not quite what you might expect.

What a load of ballast.

Managed to sleep through most of the Dancing Programme #Win

'I'd like a solid gold toilet, but it's not going happen now, is it?' -Austin Powers

Winnie the spook?

'Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation.' - Vincent Van Gogh. "Dog at the vet's (with toupee)" - oil on board, 2025.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

And here's me thing the Red Roses was something to do with Lancashire.

Went to see a Dolmen made for me, The Spinsters Stone. Sadly, again, despite my pleas to the eldritch, I am still a Spinster and have not been spirited away. Such a bother.

Bloody hell, that's quite the pair of trousers.

What's the point in advertising a programme right before it starts?

I'm not sure this happened. Scots and Geordies are pretty closely linked, but then... *shrugs* there's idiots everywhere.

Ringed plover. ♥️

It's raining now, so mowing the lawn was justified. 👍

For a second there I thought her knickers had fallen down.

Pretty sure Mrs Hat isn't taking to me now.

Might take up fishing.

Since my heart attack I get the distinct impression Mrs Hat would sooner I sat on my arse and did nowt all day, but that's not the way I'm wired.

Just scanned this lovely slide of an F3H Demon on the catapult #NavalAviation

Watership Down fans look away now.

This only happens to you once

I was hoping to get out of the house for a couple of hours, but no. Mowed the lawn, not sure that counts, really.

You're all doing stuff and I'm still in my pyjamas. 🙄

High streets need shops. Useful shops, not old tat or coffee places.

Hidden Britain made me a lovely Homerby railway station sign a few years ago. Top quality work.

Very surreal to see one of our pieces appear on Taskmaster (Channel 4) last night. Watch Reece Shearsmith discussing the amazing public information film 'The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water' (1973) before introducing a sign I made him a few years ago for his downstairs toilet.

Witch’s Hat toadstools In toffee and banana - Autumn’s colour trends. #haikuSaturday

Clach a' Charra stone near Dornoch. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

People that whinge on about immigrants coming to the UK and claiming benefits and taking jobs off people are also the kind of people that don't do due diligence on what they're told by mendacious fuckers like Mr Farage.

The 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway gives me a chance to shine a spotlight on this amazing document - the subscription deed for the railway. Held by Barclays because one of our early bankers was Treasurer to the railway (continues)

Reading The Modern Antiquarian / The Lost Byway on our local burial mounds, one of my favourite places, still half forgotten, and still spooky in the right light. But I didn’t know the about “lights left burning”, and not that everything should be a ghost story - this should be a ghost story.

BuT tHeY mUsT bE sEeN tO dO SoMeThInG.