*also worried I’m going to stand on him on my way to bed, and his family will find out he’s died in a road traffic accident in the morning.
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*also worried I’m going to stand on him on my way to bed, and his family will find out he’s died in a road traffic accident in the morning.
Last night I saw a spider run out from under the armchair to the coffee table. Tonight, he ran from the coffee table to under the armchair. I now have no idea if he works day shift under the armchair, or night shift under the coffee table, or if he has two jobs #spiders #work #dayshift #nightshift
Fuck it, this is going on the headphones tonight. No idea what state my dreams are going to be in, but they’ll be proper mental. #Bowie #Low #WhatAFuckingRecord #dreamtime
The red lad reminds me of once trying to get home after a night out in Watford back in ‘98. Apologies to the two lads who asked me for a cigarette. To this day, no idea how I made it home without any injuries. #nightout #WeveAllBeenThere
Just had a listen to that now 😂
That’s interesting, I’ll need to go look that up, thanks Dave! Also, I can’t hear the words ‘Half Man Half Biscuit’ without hearing them in the voice of Andy Kershaw.
Just visited your webpage for the first time, sounds (no pun intended) utterly captivating what you do. Just downloading Soundcloud now for a deeper dive 👍 Also, only just realised your name isn’t Lea and now I feel quite embarrassed for calling you Lea all this time.
Have you tried switching roles? He could be asleep in seconds, whilst you sit worrying about Mr. Jelly moving forward with his life choices.
Planning to switch everything off five minutes before end of cooking and staging a kitchen walk out.
Eagerly awaiting the day you capture Edwardian fairies in your magical imagery Deborah. I like to think they’ve danced rapidly across the field of view, but not so quick as to *just* be caught at the edge of the plate.
Please tell me you skipped the high brow stuff and went straight to Mr. Jelly.
Only a few games in, but Beans already in a relegation battle this season.
Shocker mate. No desire to win out there tonight.
It’s Beans vs Peas wars again tonight with the sausage and chips fiasco. Second home defeat of the season for me, as the wife picks up a comfortable 3pts. #BeanWars #PeasAreAPoorSubstitute #sausage #chips #lifeathome #everythingisfootball
Well, aren’t we all 😂
Ta da! Here’s the new logo for the tiny production company I’ve set up with my partner Tom. The industrious and brilliant Brighton artist, Sarah Young, worked with us to create our look and our first production is getting an airing in September. You can find out more by clicking the link in my bio.
Looks amazing Lea. Extra special bonus points for having the Kraken/Giant Squid in there; probably my favourite iconography from ancient times 👌
Incidentally, the ‘Tenor’ name came from his mentor Sugar Minott, who likened the power of his voice to Pavarotti.
My single biggest wind-up on quiz shows is folk throwing a vacant look then saying, ‘No idea, before my time.’ I wasn’t around when Thomas Paine or Thucydides were doing fucking book signings was I? I still fucking know who they are though. Jesus. #quiz #gameshow #growup #whatacarryon
Lady Saw took her stage name as a huge fan who idolised Tenor. I know where the ‘Tenor’ bit of his name came from, but not entirely certain about ‘Saw’.
“This question, to me, asks if it’s possible to see into the future, which, of course, nobody can. However, photography can, in a way, predict the future, warning or preparing for what may be about to come.” - Phil Kneen
The gif perfectly captures the tension of the post.
I know it’s early days, but the PL takes no prisoners. It’s the Villa, and 1pt with zero goals in three is a shocker mate.
Few things as evocative and soul calming as medieval plainsong. I do like a bit of shawm work though, bit of drum accompaniment, something jolly, like it’s playing in a Bruegel painting.
Annoyed I thought it was 8pm kickoff, not 7pm. Saw the HT result and sort of glad I forgot. Anyway, up the Villa ✊
I’ll be honest Lea, not an expert on classical music, but when I see ‘Early Music’ in this context I’m thinking 14th/15th C. Burgundian Court tunes 😂
28 Seconds Later
This modern stuff is rubbish.
I’m glad you wrote this article, as for a long time I just thought I was being miserable and somehow ‘arrogant’ with my views on this. Been doing photography a long time, but I’m still always learning. But, there’s learning, and then there’s learning ✌️
Cats and dogs, every one their own mind and soul. I think we love them so much because they mirror us, albeit in a simpler, less verbose approach.
Photographers on YT doing tutorials, who begin with ‘When I started photography last year …’ and who’ve learned all they know so far by watching YT tutorials from photographers who begin with, ‘When I started photography last year …’ Not trying to be negative, but this article nails it 👇
Bought one similar for my dogs a few years ago Charlotte. Bella, the Jack Russell, just stares at it, waiting for you to just give her the treats. Pip, on the other hand, figured it out in seconds and double-checks every compartment 😂
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*on top of everything else, I’m genuinely amazed I’m still alive tbh. Time to cuddle up to my Jack Russell.
So tonight I’ve had Budvar beer, red wine, dry martini, now Bushmills Irish Whiskey, and I’m still standing and capable of writing this without any typos. Time for some Coltrane on the headphones, to take me somewhere else for a few hours. ‘night all ✌️ #ididsayidranktoomuch #stillcapable #jazz
Same, but hashtags are brutal 😂
John Peel’s was botd, so here’s a link for Dave Strickson’s archive with over a thousand Peel Sessions each with accompanying YouTube clips davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john...
Glad someone managed to win today.
Well, the football was shite, again, even the Fantasy EFL, both cars off the road as MOT fails, and it’s pissing down outside. It’s going to be a John Coltrane kind of night on the headphones. #shite #bollocks #arse #jazz #JohnColtrane #JazzIsTheAnswerYoureLookingFor
Another thing I miss about Dundee. The place on Gellatly St. was tremendous.
Never gets old Clare! 👌
Fresh coriander elevates even the most basic ‘bang it in the oven’ ready meal ruby. #HomeCooking #lifeathome #careathome #ruby #currynight #ChickenMadras
Songs, plural
We all need to splurge and unload from time to time. God knows, I do it often enough that I’m amazed I’m not haemorrhaging followers on a daily basis. You keep doing what you do my friend 🫶
@janenodough.bsky.social Thank you for the insane amount of likes and reposts today, it is very much appreciated my friend, truly 🙏
Thank you re. the photos 🙏 In other news, yeah, some days worse than others, usually worse to be perfectly honest, but I have many years experience of struggling and fighting so I keep going. Thanks for asking, you’ve been a good friend on here 🫶
It's sometimes the only way to connect and not feel so alone. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare
Random shite from the past ten years . No idea where I was going with these . . #photography #garden #flowers #nature #randomobservations #digital
#paris #rain #jardinduluxembourg #rainstorm #blackandwhitephotography #absence #presenceofabsence
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IJzeren Man (Iron Man) Lake. Vught, Netherlands. 2017. Guards from Vught transit camp would play with their families at this holiday resort next to the camp. From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. buff.ly/3pgxQE4
Writing by Anna, aged nine, in 1997 Написано Анною у 9 років, 1997 рік30 Ми з України! Україна розташована на південному сході Європи. Площа України — 603 700 квадратних кілометрів. На заході є гори Карпати, а на півдні — ...
Found some footage of your first Clapton match:
Never realised you was that old mate, you’ve got a full year on me.
From my Home series Portraits of life here on the Pennines using out of date Fuji instant 4x5 film - documenting family life as the children & I navigate teenage years & life in the countryside.
Well, I’m no doctor, but I thought kidneys were kind of always ’in use’? Gets more dystopian by the day, and it’s not even funny anymore.
Lazy cinema, a sign of cultural regression.
People often just remember this, or think of this, as a dancing movie with iconic moves. It really is so much more, and Travolta gives a fine performance outside of the nightclub scenes.
I still love this movie, watched it again about a year ago. It’s one of Mum’s favourites, and one of the very first VHS movies we rented!
Post a movie from the year you were born:
I’m no longer religious, but if there’s one thing these ‘Christian’ extremist wankers all have in common, it’s that none of them understand the words they’ve supposedly read. It’s all a bit beyond them really, like a five year-old trying to read ‘The Lord Of The Rings’.
The average American SUV on British roads:
A legacy of supporting domestic abuse survivors in Cheshire will be the lasting impact of a soon-to-be graduate from the University of Chester northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hu...
In honour of Grimsby beating Man United on penalties last night, here's a fish 🐟 #Photography #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BWPhotography #BNW #BWPhoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Mono #MonoPhoto #MonoPhotography #Grimsby #GrimsbyTown #EFL #Football
He moved out shortly after this incident. All those years of quite literally praying in church that he would be gone came to nothing. Realising he could no longer trust even a 10 year-old boy finally did for him. Kind ecclesiastic words have nothing on determined physical effort.
I see what you did there.
Turst me, no one more disappointed with me than I am. Gentle mental immune system historical atrocities never been my strong point. I just write regular old-school gibberish. Should have paid more attention in school.
Forgot to post the update here. After six consecutive attempts at charging a card that I’d already removed from my Adobe account, they finally managed to charge the new card. What a fucking carry on, honestly.
I can write better gibberish than this after half a bottle of Bushmills.
I had a feeling that’s what it was, but thought I’d better ask someone who knows instead. Thanks Marc.
Stupid question, because I’m fairly ignorant in these matters, but I’ve never actually known what ‘foil’ means in reference to book printing.
Railway station at Sobibór extermination camp.Poland. 2018. From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. buff.ly/3pgxQE4
Can confirm that praying has never achieved a single fucking thing in my entire life. Kicking my abusive, racist, alcoholic father down the stairs when I was 10 definitely worked though 👌 #WellThatWasMoreThanYouWantedToHear #religiousbollocks #TrustYourself
Mornin’ all, Merry Thursdays . Here’s Pip, being far happier at just merely existing than I’ve ever been at any point ever in the last fifty-five years . . #DogsOfBluesky #dogphotography #FellTerrier #ilovemydog #happyasfuck
The average American SUV on British roads:
Went the evening well, or did you end up trapped inside a 19th C. painting? 😂
Tap water up here no different to Evian.
Only just seen this, sorry Lea. Get the first seventeen rounds in, be there in about 10 hours 👍
At last, a Believer! Solidarity, sister ✊
That’s how I usually end up after a night out. Socks and a pair of high heels. Which is why I don’t go out no more.
When it comes to no-effort meals, I don’t fanny about. Stovies. Three of ‘em. In the oven 👌 Sorted Standard Scene #NotHomeCooking #BangItInTheFuckingOven #Stovies #lifeathome #noeffort
Cropped Landscape, With Lines . More of the ‘Random shite from the past ten years etc.’ series, but with a bit of abstracty-bollocks thrown in for no apparent reason. . . #photography #Landscape #abstract #randomobservations #digital
Great meeting with designer @wayneford.co.uk this morning about ‘The Edge of Ruin’, looking at signature mapping and materials for endpapers, covers, foils and binding from Fedrigoni and GF Smith. We are making real headway on the book. Layout is complete and the final text editing is in progress.
#OtD 27 Aug 1889 the great strike of East End Jewish tailors in London, UK began during a dockers' strike. Despite the antipathy of the dockers' union leader, the tailors held out until October when the employers caved in stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9881...
Just so. With the benefit of hindsight, should have renamed her ‘Estella’ when we brought her home! Well remembered my friend 🙏
Migration into Britain is as old as Homo Heidelbergensis, half-a-million years ago. But don’t let facts get in the way of trackie-bottomed Deform UK voters. #FightFascism #FightNazis #FightWankers #migrationisnormal #CulturalDiversity
This was my gateway into horror. youtu.be/1z8Vg20G4kI?...
Pip was young and stupid back then. Bella still very much in charge.
I have a irrational fear of ketchup, can’t even touch it never mind eat it. Stems from childhood. Baked Beans are an altogether separate entity.
Bagpuss was wondrous and terrifying, in equal measure.
Thanks 👍
Everyone hates me and I have no friends.
Where were these Lea?
Everyone hates me and I have no friends.
@itvnews.bsky.social stop promoting fascism. Deform have 4 mps. They are not headline news. Only the cranks in the msm see them as relevant. Let's make #racism abhorrent again.
Bit late with this one, only because of a right old carry on with the MOT today. Here’s Bella & Pip, who I’ve had for 12 and 10 years now. #InternationalDogDay
