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I went for the mechanical organs, but how could I resist ...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is the extended play version of a Fairground Organ book feed.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Christmas is over - the weather is rubbish - but there is spring to look forward to.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes the themed cocktails get to you ...

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Stuart in his happy place

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you like about Queen Victoria, but she knew how to set up a nursery (as a visit to Osborne House shows)

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

The Christmas dinosaurs have arrived ...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

My kind of cocktail bar - 'Never Really Here' Edinburgh.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

There is a reason that Lancashire mill workers were good at lip reading: this weaving shed at the Queen Street mill in Burnley originally had 900 looms - there remain 308. Imagine the noise during full production.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

I think one of Melania's Christmas decorations was delivered by mistake to my local garden centre.

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

I'm thinking about the answer Es Devlin gave on Woman's Hour this morning when was asked how she made her large designs successful: "For a work to end up its best possible version of itself everybody, every collaborator, has to do their second best work"

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

The instructions on the toilet were rather restrictive.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

The world is a better place when you ride steam driven gallopers

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

That time we frightened punters with a narrowboat on the Cam ...

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

My frog has returned. He does not seem to be worried by torchlight.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

So tempting at the moment ...

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments