Dog lovers comment after watching The Odyssey, a movie about the horrors of war, depicting slaughter on an epic scale.

Last year, for my birthday my wife made a donation to the restoration fund for Avro Vulcan XH558 and got my name added to the fuselage. This year she bought VIP tickets to an “engine ground run experience” next month. I reckon she’s a keeper !

Keep putting one foot in front of the other 🤷‍♂️

The weather isn't the only thing making Farage sweat today 🥵

…….and counting down, three, two, one to the oligarch owned UK press rolling out their pre-prepared hit jobs on Sir Keir’s successor. ☹️

After the phenomenal success of my night fighter identity quiz, I thought I might try my hand at setting an Odd one Out quiz.

Some photos of Durham County Women in yesterday’s cracking Gill Burns division 2 final at Twickenham. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Whoop whoop, just got my Twickenham photographer’s accreditation for this Saturday’s Gill Burns County Championship Final between Durham County & Cornwall. Incredibly excited !

Today I have mostly been getting sunburned while photographing Durham County Women earning a final at Twickenham by beating Devon Women. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Durham County Women seal their place in a Gill Burns Championship (Div.2) Semi Final with a win over Cheshire. Photos of the match here. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Spent all day Sunday travelling to/from Mellish RFC to photograph Durham County Women v Notts/Lincs/Derby in the Gill Burns Championship. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Spent a drizzly Sunday afternoon photographing Durham County Women v Northumberland rugby in a friendly* match I say friendly but you should have seen the ferocity of the tackling 😮 www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Off to the Gateshead Beer Festival tomorrow. Pray for me !

Photos from the Durham County All Girls Festival 2026 www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

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Photos from Durham v Northumberland PDG16s girls rugby. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Public Service Broadcasting with clips of the 1942 movie “Spitfire” set to their music. What’s not to like. youtu.be/_u4Md_aXVJE?...

Some U20s Women rugby photos. Durham v Yorkshire. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Well, 2026 turned out to be an exceptionally entertaining Rugby Six Nations tournament.

Steeling myself for 6 nations super Saturday. Not just in the hope of the results going Scotland’s way, but for the fact I’m going to be in the pub from 14:00 until after the last match finishes at about 21:45. Going to try to pace myself to no more than 2 pints an hour.

Well that was a hell of a weekend of rugby !

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Back home after a long weekend in London. So disappointed I completely missed out on the quintessential London experience. ☹️ (according to twitter) Didn’t even get mugged, stabbed or have my phone snatched once. Maybe next time 🤞😂

I’m sure I’ve seen this movie before 🤔😮

Delighted to have captured a photo of the old battleship.

Order is restored, nature is healing, the Calcutta cup is back in its rightful place.

Was in Bennett’s bar last night when the lights went out for over an hour. Nobody batted an eye, just kept drinking in the dark as if that’s a perfectly normal thing to do. Luckily the card machine kept working and a little light from the illuminated beer taps meant the staff could keep serving.

Yesterday after more than 6 weeks of hard graft I finally ate the last of the ludicrous amount of chocolate, cheese, shortbread and cake I received as Xmas gifts. The diet starts today* *or maybe tomorrow.

Every American needs to watch this:

Sorry, pardon, WHAT ? How penis injections became a Winter Olympic talking point www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

I’m just over half way through S2 of “The Diplomat” on Netflix and it is just great. The dialogue is razor sharp & whip smart. The characters are engaging & believable and acted sublimely by professionals at the top of their game. I enjoyed S1 but this new series takes everything to the next level.

Honest Bob’s been caught Honest Bobbing. 😂😂😂

I ordered an item from a French supplier. I ad to pay taxes of £13 .80 before Royal Mail would deliver. Fair enough, I have no quibble with that, but I’m incensed that Royal Mail also charged me an additional £12 as a “handling” fee. What a total rip off.

Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous. Once shared a lift in a Cardiff airport hotel with Bobby Ball, we didn’t interact. Once sat beside Paul Bettany at the US Embassy London, we didn’t interact. Once queued behind Matt Smith at Avignon station, we didn’t interact.

Festive aircraft identification quiz. Identify all four and be guided to the OoO. Reverse image search all you like, it’ll be bugger-all help. 😂

Tough day for children in the USA. US forces detected a load of un-tariffed contraband inbound to the USA and destroyed it with a missile strike. Two reindeer survived and were seen to be waving and calling for rescue but a second strike was ordered and they were taken out too. ☹️

The downside of having a bird feeder popular with goldfinches is that they are such messy eaters. All the spilled seed attracts a flock of pigeons. Luckily the pigeons eventually attract a solution to the pigeon problem.

I saw Sinners on its cinema release and it’s my film of the year but it’s only today I learned that Michael B. Jordan played both Smoke & Stack ! That’s either incredible acting on Micheal’s part or a complete lack of observational talent on mine. 🙄

I’ve seen some dull, boring, soulless, amateur shit on TV but that FIFA World Cup draw just dropped the bar to the level of the Earth’s core.

Well whaddayaknow ! 90+ % of the articles in the press, on TV and online filled with confident predictions of what would be in the budget turned out to be complete bollocks, written to fill empty space, with zero insight or understanding.

All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.

Latest in “my flabber remains totally ungasted news” 'Toxic' No 10 culture harmed Covid response, inquiry finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wish I knew what I did so wrong in a previous incarnation to deserve coming back as a Scotland rugby fan.

In the spring I put up a feeder with sunflower hearts in an attempt to encourage goldfinches to my back yard. Over the summer I had a pair visit regularly, then 3 young joined them later. Now I get a flock emptying the feeder every day. The greedy little swine are eating me out of house & home.

Why? Just why ?

Watched “A House of Dynamite” Quite good but I just couldn’t get over the crazy plot device where an ICBM’s destination could be calculated, but not its point of origin !

I would have someone check that the explosive bolts holding the tail on have been made safe 😮

On the SkyHistory channel at 8pm tonight. Bone Detectives : Secrets from beyond the………What ? 😬