Patrick Barlow

"From their 1989 masterpiece, Peace and Love, The Pogue’s “Down all the Days” is a tribute to Christy Brown....You will know him from the award winning bio pic starring Daniel Day Lewis, My Left Foot. " - Star Maker Machine (blog) ##MusicSky youtu.be/XC9Ou2K55Zc?...

(Dec 27, 1979) Hammersmith Odeon, London "A lotta people won't a get no a supper tonight (USE A CALCULATOR!) A lotta people sitting down, by the light, ah! A lotta people won't a get no a supper tonight A lotta people a won't get no a justice tonight" #MusicSky youtu.be/ga4wASz39Fc?...

#MusicSky youtu.be/hdmrt72mib0?...

The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

c.org/2D6VvPbnzm

GEOFF PARLING Geoff Parling was born on 28 October 1983. He played 93 times for, and is currently the head coach of, Leicester Tigers.

Palestine Action proscription rally planned for US Embassy in Nine Elms and US Consulate General in Edinburgh

Macolm Walker, born into wealth, is a Tory who failed to win a seat in Parliament then *begged* Rishi Sunak to gift one & quit the party in strop when Sunak declined to do so. Keir Starmer then made him Baron of Broxton & gave him a seat in the House of Lords so can campaign for starving the poors

Today’s budget looks like being worse for our future and the young than even anything Starmer came up with. A budget based on approval of mass new oil drilling is a betrayal of our future.

When we were kids, many of us would sit on the ground, rolling back logs and watching woodlice scurry by. As adults, a lot of us have lost that curiosity, trading our fascination with the living world for a life spent looking at screens.

Cuba has better Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Lower Crime and a lower Murder rate than the USA. Even with their 60 year trade embargo from the USA. The only disaster is the USA.

leave us to our free election

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be? (Would you ‘like’ or rt this one please, so it doesn’t get buried 🙏)

Lovely Leonese mastiff I came across a few years ago in Zamora, NW Spain used to protect a huge flock of sheep against wolves. Note the "carlanca", the spiked collar worn around neck against wolf bites. Shepherd told me how he was brought up since a puppy among sheep to imprint as one of the flock.

It's time to get rid of this, isn't it?

The first King of England died on this day in 939. I wonder how many patriots of the far-right know who it is. (See alt text... I'm only so swatty because I read David Mitchell's book "Unruly". Highly recommended for those who like a bit of history but don't own a flag.)

"Juan" and "Raul" are putting out reflecting panel below the apple trees. This panel maximizes the sunlight reaching the trees lower branches and helps with the coloring, sugar content and quality of the fruit. They work 5-6 days a week and move orchards as needed. #WeFeedYou

But they're not Nazis... Definitely not Nazis. www.youtube.com/shorts/rtoX6...

A 2024 poll showed 60% of Jewish Israelis thinking that posting on social media ANY sympathy for ANY Palestinians during the genocide should be banned. Many said that 🇮🇱 soldiers have a right to rape 🇵🇸 prisoners! There were riots when some who did so were arrested, & 1 was treated as a hero on 🇮🇱 TV.

Appropriate use of a German food (Gurken = cucumbers) for a more modern analogy... ... as we fondly feel threatened by the rise of the far-right and the persecution of minorities while watching the genocide of a nation from afar. 💚

Let them eat cake? That's so French Revolution. Let them eat gherkins.

Fill yer boots… thank you Labour… thank you, thank you

27th Oct 1973, Gladys Knight & the Pips started a 2 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Midnight Train To Georgia'. It was the group's 18th Top 40 hit & 1st No.1. The song won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Group & has become her signature song. #GladysKnight

OTD: ZURICH PREMIERSHIP 2002 Saracens 18 Tigers 26 (Booth 1t, Murphy 1t 1d, Stimpson 2c 3p) Vicarage Road, 27 October Dean Richards: “It might have been totally different if Andy Goode kicked all his goals”. Fortunate then he was playing for Saracens on this day.

Rosebank = 254 million tonnes of planet-warming gases. ❌❌The Government must say No To Rosebank ❌❌

#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958...

Everything you need to set up a Labour Budget. Terms and conditions apply. Real action on the cost-of-living crisis sold separately.

With notes of Genocide and White Phosphorus...

Make a band edible Stiff Little Fish Fingers

Only 998 days until Wes Streeting's war. Are you getting excited yet? 🙃

Make a band edible The Chicken Supremes

The latest betting odds show the Israeli election is now a foregone conclusion. Bookmakers say there's a 100% that a supporter of genocide will be the next Israeli PM. You heard it here first.

This wonderful tree contained a door. I didn't dare open it so as not to disturb. Who would live there, a dwarf, an elf, fairies, a wizard.🌳

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 70. Bumblebees transport pollen in ‘baskets’ on their hind legs and nectar in their honeystomach. They can carry their body weight in nectar and up to 90% of their body weight in pollen. What they carry affects how they fly. #bees #bumblebees #nature

Make a band edible The Sweet Trolly (One for the kids)

Make a band edible The Rolling Scones

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

The UK is exporting its carbon footprint. We ship 8M tonnes of scrap steel to nations with weak environmental laws, only to buy the finished product back. #UKPol #UKSteel #NetZero #IndustrialPolicy @uksteel.org @green-alliance.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

27 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Henderika Leman, was born in Zwolle. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942 with her younger brother Meijer and her mother Annette. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Contemplating the environmental impact of shrinkflation. A can of tuna used to contain more tuna. The cost is the same and the weight of the can is the same. The difference has been made up with water. If we were honest, and cans were smaller, we would burn a lot less diesel moving them around.

(1979) #MusicSky youtu.be/0Vo4lNb0w48?...

Really good stuff from Tadhg www.youtube.com/live/sCLJjgq...

#MusicSky youtu.be/r3iiK63NylI?...

Having become the youngest Tigers player to make an appearance in the league in 2015, Ben White became the youngest Leicester captain in 2018. On 27 October, at 20 years and 153 days, he skippered the club in a 21-29 Premiership Cup defeat at Saracens.

Labour’s contempt for young people is a boon for the Green Party. Many thanks to Andy Burnham for this inexplicable own goal

Six blue tits and two great tits were rushed to South Essex Wildlife Hospital after wooden dowels coated in glue had been left in trees and on the ground to trap birds. The birds were ripping out their feathers as they fought to escape. They are now recovering at the Wildlife Hospital.

Rise and shine youtu.be/OfW4YVT4HBE