Waterloo, I was defeated You Won the War

Relics  on display at Windsor Castle, commemorating  200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

 

Born To Be Mild

 

Awaiting caption...tea brewing

Take it Easy Rider

 

More Over 50s out on motorbikes according to the Guardian.....

Beard Free Zone

 

Absolutely No Comment

Up Helly Aa!

 

Shetland Isles celebrates Viking Fest....flaming longboats, horns of ale and the inevitable beards

Forever and Ever

 

Farewell Demis Roussos. I was never a fan, but lovers of kitsch always appreciate a good kaftan

Ugly Creepin Blastit Wonner

For Ron Harvey, whose birthday was on Burn's Night. Hear  Robert Carlisle read "To a Louse" http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/to_a_louse/



The Old House At Home

 

London pubs are being sold and turned into houses. This one's The Old House at Home in Shadwell.....Great Auntie Lily  Patchett  had a pub with this name near Green Hammerton , North Yorkshire,  and another called the Anchor Inn. I can find neither hide nor hair of the Old House at Home, but the Anchor's still there......



Tutankamun's Beard

 

Bodger alert : Tutankamun's beard has fallen off and been hastily stuck back on again in a haphazard manner, alarming Egyptologists.....

Free, The Weatherfield One

 

RIP Anne Kirkbride. Free the Weatherfield One

Endangered Species no 2

 

 

Iconic Brown Sauce Lovers bemoan potential loss of bacon butty smothering condiment as sales drop

Endangered Species no 1

 

The White Rhino- mercilessly hunted for its horn

Deirdre Barlow's Glasses

 

Farewell to Deirdre Barlow AKA Anne Kirkbride of Corrie

Romeo

 

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? At the Burberry fashion shoot

Everything But The Kitchen Sink

 

Washer's gone again......

Flog It Like Beckham

 

Romeo flogs some coats for Burberry's

Kipper Cheese Maracas

 

Some of the gifts received by the Royal Family in 2014

The Cat's Whiskers and the Dog's Bollocks

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home gets Grade 2 Listing. The architect (Clough Williams- Ellis) also designed miniaturised Italianate dog's dinner Portmeirion, as seen in 1960s cult classic "The Prisoner"...

Fungus the Bogeyman

 

Raymond Biggs character Fungus the Bogeyman is all set for a series on TV. Don't think Aled Jones will be cashing in with a single this time.....

Tykes Rising

 Shabangly Musings for Mercury envisioned as a Yorkshireman

Jurassic Shark

 New  fossil discovered: 4.2 metre long sea-going reptile, the catchily-named Dearcmhara Shawcrossi.....Scotland's own piece of Jurassic, hailing from the Isle of Skye

180!!!!!

 

You can't beat a bit o' Bully. "Stay out of the black and into the red- no room in this game for two in a bed" (Jim Bowen) 

My Favourite Tea Towel

Best Christmas Tea Towel award goes to Andy & Liz's Keswick dish dryer, featuring the old railway line and sewage works (from the 1947 OS map)

Hong Kong Phooey

A Super Hero who jumps out of a filing cabinet, which sometimes gets stuck ...something reminded me of this today for some reason!?

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

 

Shocking to hear of 12 deaths in Paris. 10 journalists/ cartoonists and 2 policemen

You Have Been Warned

 

Old sign on a wall at Kate's, Darley Abbey. I wonder what punishment was meted out?

What's It Got In It's Pocket-ses?

 

 Body reading suits like Andy Serkis used for acting Gollum are to be adapted for use as lie detectors....how bizarre

Ethelred The Unready

Oops! Last post for the Anglo Saxon Hoard found near Aylesbury, Bucks should have been coins from King Cnut and Ethelred the Unready, not Offa! ( Weekend Wanderers Metal Detecting Club found 5,000 silver Saxon coins four days before Christmas. The hoard is worth about £1 Million...)
 

 

Weekend Wanderers

 

 A member of the Weekend Wanderers Metal Detecting Club found 5,000 silver Saxon coins four days before Christmas. The hoard is worth about £1 Million...

1st Brick of the season

 

Here's one I found earlier, NCB Hednesford, pit long gone

 



Tykes Takeoff

 

Tyke Airways....Ay Up!