Bad Tweets from the Black North. Offshore Surveyor, rugby player, hiker, general outdoors enthusiast. I like buoys. Views my own and not my employers etc.
Sometimes it's very hard to cross the mental divide between modern times and ancient pre Roman Britain, but then someone defiles a sacred tree and everyone (rightfully) calls for their immediate execution
The iconic Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall Path in Northumberland has been felled overnight.
We're waiting more information on this.
Pics - Amanda Marks, Author, Facebook.
Can't believe I'm 28 and still find myself wearing a rucksack with one strap a lot of the time, in case the bigger boys think I'm a nerd for wearing both
Imagine if Tolkien did a Rowling from beyond the grave.
*OoooOOooo it is I, J. R. R. Tolkien, come to tell you terrible news*
Yes?
*Arwen pegged Aragorn, twiiiiiice daaaaaily, oOOooOo*
Just fundamentally do not understand the mindset where you expect people to live like they're in a workhouse rather than think maybe wages in the UK are low
Occasional flat update N°2 - two weeks work has got this more or less sorted (till we work out which colour to paint the walls/hang some curtains - transformation from listing to current below (including the nøōk):
Unfortunately heading back a few days early from this deployment as my Grandfather passed away early this morning - photo of me and Granda Ken last time I was home visiting, 94, so good innings altogether 💙
I have just aged two hundred years and shrivelled into a husk, because I very nearly have this memory, but it was for them replacing the chalk and blackboards with whiteboards and markers
Not sure if my English and Scottish and Welsh and even southern mutuals realise how much worse Arlene's replacement is going to be, like, order of magnitude worse
Have to say I'm fairly disappointed in the SNP. I know they don't vote on matters in the other home nations, but if you're willing to break that for English foxes, can you not for NI queers?
So we didn't get the first flat we were after, but today we finally got the keys for the second choice! Moving in over the next couple of weeks and then we're starting to redecorate 🥰🔑
The lecturer supervising this trip has decided that I'm the one who makes sure kit is packed for transport correctly - v happy to be the responsible party here but also pls, pls stop referring to me as "Loadmaster" 😭
I know it seems really wet, but it's so so so good to be able to visualise realistically getting married back home surrounded by my friends and family. So glad also for my friends who'll stay Mr. and Mr. when they step of the plane.
So grateful to everyone who made this happen.
BREAKING 🏳️🌈MPs have just voted for
#equalmarriage
in
#NorthernIreland
! This is a huge step forward for LGBT equality in the UK and a tribute to those who have spent years building momentum and public support for equal marriage in Northern Ireland