David Lamkin

Whilst perusing the Cambridge Independent Press of 23 October 1875 I came across this proto-Buster moment

The only version available in the toy section of my local garden centre ...

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

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

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

Sometimes the themed cocktails get to you ...

Stuart in his happy place

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

The Christmas dinosaurs have arrived ...

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

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.

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

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"

The instructions on the toilet were rather restrictive.

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

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

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

So tempting at the moment ...