Happy Friday! ‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962) (Ladybird Artist John Kenney also illustrated for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)

Ah man, Trevor van Meter's wonderful FlyGuy lives on, and is as beautifully benign as it always was. Enjoy some vintage Flash gaming from 2002, courtesy of @waybackmachine.bsky.social archive.org/details/flyg...

Age yourself with gaming.

Amused this morning by the level of talk on the radio about the rapid proliferation of solar activity causing unusual northern lights sightings being exactly the sort of thing you'd get as background noise in a disaster film about six months before the sun invariably explodes.

Grief is such a shitty thing, isn't it? I mean, it's true what people say, it never goes away and you get better at living with it, but you never get *fully* better. You might learn to stop crying so much but you're always living with it.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

There must be some unwritten law of the universe that, if you pick up two clementines, one will be juicy and taste incredible where the other will always have the texture and flavour of a tennis ball.

This is giving the vibes of one heck of a dark episode of Paddington.

A cold and wet afternoon means only one thing: time to make a pot of tea, notch up the heating and - even though Ustinov arguably wasn't the best Poirot - give his best outing another watch.

I still have my iPod, tho struggling to believe that it's getting on for 24 years old now. I keep meaning to go back to using it, but that project took a backseat to restoring my PS2 - which made way for sorting the spare bedroom, so I look forward to maybe having it fixed up in time for its 30th 😅

After what feels like about three months of systematically emptying, sorting and clearing every box of old possessions I'd stored in there I'm quite excited at the thought of finally finishing the spare bedroom today. Might even sleep in there to celebrate.

I mean, I work in the industry and I'm excited and all but that's enough for now thanks.

TV crime shows as published by Penguin Books. 🧵 1/ #Bookish

Two films in a month is rare for me, let alone two in a weekend. Pivoted away from Antiques Roadshow to GoodFellas tonight. Hadn't seen it in a while and forget just how good it is (and also just how long it is).

I'm not the best typographer but good grief this is practically three words.

Although I think we can all agree that Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best Indiana Jones movie I've gone in on Last Crusade which is somehow also the best Indiana Jones movie..? 🧐

Travelling back to York earlier than I thought I would've been, and I'm left wondering what the longest series of train journeys is that you can make, where you change trains at a stations with an incrementally higher number of platforms than the one you last changed at.

Never stops being weird that the Hiscox Insurance office in York has a decommissioned Soviet rocket in the foyer. NOBODY KNOWS WHY.

Visiting my mum this weekend and she's already told me about my brother's new girlfriend more times than she ever tried to talk about my boyfriend in the 4 years we were together. She's not a bad person and I'll always love her as my mum, but sometimes it's nice to know where you stand isn't it? 🙃

There's a new timepiece in town. Rail Clock is a masterclass in meaningful simplicity. Read all about it👇 transportdesigned.com/theres-a-new...

Charging an iPhone from a Class 80x series train remains to be an experience, doesn't it? 🤨

Okay so our InterCity #225Day was back in May, it just takes me a while to get around to simple tasks - like sending a copy of a print to its illustrator! It's always a pleasure to work with Tom on jobs, and this one was no exception - and no better way to help fans celebrate such a special fleet 🙌

I was fortunate to see Rail Clock before today and initially thought it a slow burn, but the more I look at it the more I appreciate its simplicity and focus on function whilst pushing the boundaries of innovative, clear and aesthetically pleasing information display. It's very special. A classic.

I love the clock, but any talk of clock just makes me think of this and I'm not sorry.

These are nice enough I guess but just bring back the Office 2011 for Mac icons and be done with it, cowards.

Oh, this is sad. Even if the film wasn't that great (although that was unlikely as he always seemed to lend his talent to the good ones), when Drew Struzan illustrated its poster he just elevated the whole thing to something beyond being just a movie. I can't put it better. A master.

Had to write a letter this morning. I'll write another before the day is out.

This is such a weird thing to say, but for a long time I wanted to use CompuServe just because they had those massive buttons in their UI 🥴

Set myself the task of sorting and clearing the boxes of my amassed *stuff* in the spare bedroom this weekend. What I presume to be some form of undiagnosed ADHD meant that I didn't actually start until 3pm on Sunday 🙃

Upgraded my work MacBook Pro to MacOS Tahoe last night thinking it'd fix some of the compatibility issues I was getting with Sequoia.

I got a tip off about a graphic design job that I might want to apply for, working for a train operator in York. It worked out alright I guess.

QUICK AS A FLASH I REPLIED "DON'T BE BLUE, PETER!"

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance. Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits. You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222... #Wayback1T 🧵

Yes to the old Gap store playlists but also give us back the vibes from those 90s ads you cowards.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

I haven't, City of York Council leaflet rack, no. But I'll certainly keep an eye out for him.

Mean Girls was one of Simon's favourite films. We'd reached the stage in a relationship where you make each other watch your favourite films and just as with every film I watch nowadays I fell asleep in the middle of it. I guess I should make an effort to watch it in a single sitting tonight 🙃

What was the first song you remember loving as a child? We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus.

One of a series of images you can 100% absolutely hear. You're welcome.

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway. So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

Reminded of the time a creative agency presented a brand palette to me and referred to colour hex values as "hashtag colours" 🙃

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Privileged to join guests at Darlington station in the small hours of this morning, to welcome a replica of Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 as it joined the Darlington-liveried @lner.co.uk Azuma train before recreating its journey to Stockton just as the original had 200 years previously to the day 🙌

Getting dressed up and ready to go out out on a Saturday night at what has for many years now been pretty much my bedtime.

York city centre has somehow managed to become even more horrific than it usually is on a Saturday, which is a feat in itself so well done everybody well done 👏

In the mood for some French electronica in the form of Caravan Palace tonight. I was late to the party with this lot but they hit as seemingly only French electro swing can. Lone Digger is an absolute bop (tho the video gets pretty NSFW). Still 👌

It shouldn't be too much for me to ask to be able to mark songs as favourites but then for them to not play when I play my favourites playlist because although I like them I don't like them that much 🤷‍♂️

Going in early to let Simon Pegg provide this morning's earworm. It's a bit sweary.

A work trip to Dundee meant a quick lap around town yesterday evening to take in a tiny slice of its intriguing architecture and find Desperate Dan (obvs). Bonus stunning view of the Tay Bridge as the sun was coming up this morning.

Whether you were playing PlayStation games in the year 2000 or not, here's a casual reminder that even 25 years after its release the Colin McRae 2.0 user interface styling was so, effortlessly and achingly sharp👌