Gareth

Touching to see the CCTV cameras at Waterloo doing their bit to honour the war dead, there.

REMEMBER THEM. SEE IT, SAY IT, SORTED.

11h

Thanks Apple I hate it.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray

@danielgray.com

Suddenly remembered the existence of Kemp Folds kempfolds.blogspot.com

Things have taken a bleak turn for Pac-Man.

Oh, yep, I like this a lot.

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Gonna do a John Peel and play it again.

Oh hey, anyone want to bring over their copy of Quake and see what framerate we can get at 1024x768?

I mean, my old PowerMac needs a bit of work before we're installing anything but for as long as this happy little dude greets me on the boot screen I really don't mind 🥹

Is there such a thing as an iconic pencil? If there is, then the Berol Venus is arguably it, and I need you to assure me that I'm not strange by being unreasonably excited about finally getting my hands on some.

If you know what this means then it's probably time to start taking something for your knees x

You know those short indie films WeTransfer advertises to you when you're too cheap to pay a subscription? Are they real, do we reckon? Has anyone ever clicked through to watch one and find out?

22 Sept

Well, there we go. Except now I'm old I can't play any of them without needing to factor in nap breaks. my9games.net/en

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22 Sept

NONE OF THESE ARE MY PASSWORD OKAY

12 Sept

Hoarding obsolete Apple products is totally normal, yes?

12 Sept

Gonna set up a Genius Bar under the stairs so that I have someone to talk to.

7 Sept

Anyway I had a couple of weeks away from Bluesky, I didn't think I could see much point in being here but the more I thought about it the more I realised I just can't see the point in being alive a lot of the time and since I'm stuck with that for the time being I might as well hang about here too 🥰

7 Sept

Gobowen railway station - once a key interchange for Oswestry and mid Wales on the GWR Shrewsbury to Chester branch - looking absolutely splendid, fully restored to its period paint scheme thanks to @railwayheritage.bsky.social. Bonus Rail Alphabet (I think 🤞) for @doublearrow64.bsky.social

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19 Aug

Retro food packaging – Frosties, Spaghetti Hoops – hand-stitched and rewritten as reminders to be kinder to yourself 👀 Meet embroidery artist Emma Giacalone: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...

18 Aug

Interstellar. I feel bad even saying so because I know that there's people on here who I've a lot of time for and who love it. I've tried more than once and it gets worse with every attempt. I'm sorry.

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17 Aug

The skies over Manchester look delightfully threatening 🌧️🥰

bbc.co.ukBird booties built for feathered friend hit by carThe whitethroat went to the Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital after being stunned in the collision.

15 Aug

Don't mind me, I'm just going to be making this face for the rest of the day 🥺

We'll be out on doorsteps clapping people who have the common sense to not use disposable BBQs during a heatwave before the month is out.

I'm starting to think that by watching a generation of disaster movies we've all been unwittingly deceived into believing that world leaders will actually try to do something to save the planet when things start rapidly going to shit.

At this point I'd welcome Bruce Willis jetting off on a space rocket with a nuclear warhead to make everything right. Tbh I'd probably join him.

I'm not sure how many more of these I'll manage. Now excuse me while I go and make sure that no rogue cardboard has crept into my plastic recycling.

We aren't allowed to just enjoy being alive because rich people want to get richer, and somehow we've got to be fine with that because we have no other option.

At the same time as having no money for ourselves because *gestures* everything costs so fucking much now.

I don't know about you but I'm also starting to think that this exceptionally bad summer isn't actually going to be the exception for much longer.

46 today. Shit.

10 years living in Yorkshire, finally made it to Leeds' Corn Exchange yesterday. It was worth the wait.

7 Aug

10 years working in rail tomorrow. Yikes.

7 Aug

I'm destined to never have any money.

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The LEGO Group’s next ocean liner – and first follow-up to 10294 Titanic – is now rumoured to be a modern vessel that’s still in operation today. www.brickfanatics.com/lego-titanic... #LEGO #LEGONews

5 Aug

OMG London it rained 🥰

4 Aug

I can't work out whether or not at this point Waitrose have gone into full-on self parody mode.

Oh man, Parasite is still such a good film.

Arguably Richard Osman's greatest felony against literature isn't spawning the cosy crime genre - everyone has their own thing and that's fine - but it's that the window displays of bookshops are now about 80% full of them and their offshoots and they all have near-identical looking cover artwork 🤨

Admittedly I quite liked The Thursday Murder Club, although that said I didn't finish it as I don't like getting to the end of anything I really enjoy for fear of it being over. That said however the Netflix version was an abomination, so he can chalk that up as a charge too.

Could probably write a novel about it. At least the cover art would be an easy job.

A veritable sea of silhouettes and hand lettered title typography.

Cheeky win on the Euromillions last night. Celebrated by ordering the Lego X-Files set. I wasn't going to let that £2.80 change me.

28 July

Flamingo shirt this morning. I'm going to need it.

28 July

Every time I see a photo of myself now:

24 July

Still longing for a movie version of War of the Worlds that's entirely faithful to the soundtrack and artwork of the Jeff Wayne album. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

24 July

🎶 FAREWELL THUNDER CHIIIIILD!