Phil

That looks like a grand evening of entertainment

Excitement, Music, Enjoyment 😀

Limited number of facup games at this stage and six nations matches to fill the gaps

Not just the cost which as others have said is near to a full time degree these days, but do you have the time to do it as well as your job and everything else you need to do. I remember it being quite a time sink when Ann was doing hers

A lane rolls gently down a hill towards a small farmstead in early spring. The first trees are in blossom.

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Spring Landscape’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

There will be no sharp knives found anywhere in their kitchen

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

Tony Hancock's The Rebel, a bank of Radiophonic Workshop synths, an orange Mini Cooper driving down the Dr Who time tunnel - and a banging chorus in German. Our Eurovision entry works for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...

(By emielscartoons on IG)

All in that organ nobody much knows what it does - the pancreas. Beta cells are to do with inuslin production and glucose regulation and mine were screwed over by my own immune system giving me diabetes

The opening scene from the film "Threads". A city scape with steam rising in the morning light. The caption reads "Sheffield Saturday March 5th"

March 5th... 🧵🧵

A wholesome picture showing four young children with a map spread out of them, viewing the idyllic countryside ahead of them and a mysterious looking church

Childhood reading leaves scars.
When I was lounging on the sofa, watching Scooby-Doo, I always had the uneasy feeling that my school holidays should look like this instead
#WorldBookDay

Artist: AN Buchanan

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

One of the things that workplace pays me for is to put together computers and software systems to do ai research. Well they call it ai but is just machine/deep learning training and inference and stochastic word generation, sorry large language models. No intelligence in any of those type of systems

Go for it, whatever you do, do you

That is a good one too from the times I've been, round the corner from my recommendation

Goodnight from The Bloody Babe pub, where the ferret fashion parade has sharply divided regulars on the wisdom of ever putting animals in costume. Goodnight from Dr. Fiona Low, continuing her experiments on containing spirits in the magnetic fields of C90 cassettes. Goodnight from Hookland.

As I expected. If you're ever out on a day out that way, worth more than just a quick look in.

Woo and a hoo. Even if they don't spawn or turn to fish/other wildlife food, the fact it is there is a good thing 😃

As is @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social but again that bit further from the station. Well worth it is you can get there though. Plenty of good beer of all varieties brewed on site.

The photo shows the old Manchester airport bus station. At the pedestrian entrance there's a stell open canopy, then to the right we see long lines of brown and glass bus shelters with a couple of buses.

#OnThisDay in 1984, a new rather spartan bus station at Manchester Airport was opened. It's gone now, replaced by a far superior @BeeNetwork bus-rail interchange. Sometimes history isn't just nostalgia, it's seeing how things have improved.

Are you enjoying it?

We've done the main restaurant a few years back. We need to pull our fingers out and have a look at the newer place as well.

Baltimore for the weekend means West Cork Brew Sherkin Lass Pale Ale in Bushes bar. Cheers all.

Graffiti on publicly accessible outer walls of Drakewell Asylum accessible moves beyond the usual need to validate fragile teenage love or record one's existence. There's also apotropaic scarring; holes gouged to hold appeasing coins and charms. – Sophie Morley, 1982

If there is to be a lesson learned from this result it will be the wrong one

It won't though

Would now be a good time for me to begin a campaign for a cycleway along Hyde Road? Time to unite Gorton and Denton (through the medium of cyclist hatred)!

Give the trams the flyover of the Denton roundabout that the M67 never got

That looks fantastic now

A black and white photo shows four vintage buses inside the building of the museum of transport. Three buses are facing on the right, with another one, further away, facing away from us on the left. The building looks dull and scruffy, and a lot less full than the museum is nowadays.

A slightly self-indulgent #ThrowbackThursday this week - it's our own museum, shortly after we moved in during 1977 (we opened to the public in 1979). All four of these buses are all still at the museum, if anything in better condition then they were then.

That or he didn't wash his hands between chopping chillies and going for a pee