a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/our-response-to-adult-psychiatric-morbidity-study#:~:text=We%20hear%20increasingly%20loud%2C%20misleading,denied%20the%20support%20they%20need.
So didn't National Autistic Society already address the misdiagnosis, over diagnosing thing?
Oh they did and found it harmful narratives ... www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n....
Walking doesn't always work. sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...
A little brick station building with multiple chimney stacks
Finally, Sowerby Bridge Station, for the train back home.
A canal towpath, lined by trees casting long shadows courtesy of the low sun
And then another pleasant canalside walk to Sowerby Bridge (every place here seems to be a shibboleth), with the sun slowly sinking in the sky.
View across a road towards a church. A brown road sign points towards a "Clog Factory"
At Todmorden, I caught the train once more, this time as far as Mytholmroyd, which proved to be a little gem of a place. I didn't visit the clog factory, instead opting for the wonderful Blue Teapot café
The sun is shining on a canal, with a narrowboat and a bridge visible in the middle distance
I left the train at the canalside village of Walsden, before heading up the towpath towards Todmorden
View from a train window. Another line of track is visible, along with fields and electricity pylons.
It was a beautiful day today with sunshine and clear skies as winter passes the baton on to spring. I took the opportunity to explore the #CalderValley line in #WestYorkshire
Emigrating to another continent afterwards was perhaps an overreaction
Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.
"You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you..."
Matthew chapter 15, verse 7
Whole new meaning of this cartoon just dropped
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Especially now, joy is just as important as survival.
The world might be cruel and chaotic, but that doesn’t mean you should only exist in a state of struggle.
You deserve laughter, comfort, adventure and love.
Whenever you can, seek out things that make you happy, no matter how small.
Front view of a pale orange ruched velvet dress with long sleeves and a long skirt. It has ruching around the neck and a matching cap
Back view of the pale orange 1930s velvet dress that shows the wide sleeves and drape of the skirt
A partial view of the 1930s pale orange velvet dress that highlights the ruching at the neckline and shows the matching cap with silk bow at the back
This looks as if it were a fun wedding dress worn by Arline Nelson in 1935. The dress itself is all kinds of crinkled velvet loveliness but that little matching cap! #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
It'll have aged better than the "Grandstand" t-shirt
I suppose that those ancient societies that discriminated against "barren" women were divided on lack of gametes. All very feminist.
The Large Gametes, who come from a planet in the dwarf galaxy The Large Gametic Cloud.
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Ah yes! Society - famously based around, er, gametes?
Two of my ancestors were married in that church (now cathedral) nearly two hundred years ago
One of the steepest falls in music history. I listened to The Smiths for so many hours as a student. Then I rushed out to buy that first solo album only to find it was like muzak with the optimism taken out.
Stanley Spencer's painting, "The Cookham Resurrection", depicting the dead in a Berkshire graveyard bursting out of their tombs and back to life
Some Stanley Spencer energy there
An ice cream seller stands on the left of the photo close to his portable stall. Two young boys are resting on the stall and eating ice cream. In the background is a building with a large stone frontage. A small crowd of people are gathered on the top right of the photograph.
#PhotoFriday is this photograph of an ice cream seller in the Bull Ring in 1895. Arguably, one of the first fast foods of the time. Ref - Bull Ring 377 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
Even the largest villages aren't exactly big, and there were only 32 parishes in total, so why the need to sub-divide? Maybe Napton had been winning every year?
To be fair, there are some very attractive little villages in what was Southam Rural District
