also the dealers making such an open and blatant poster selling everything from class A/B/C in one hit led to such a backlash that the entire Peace Convoy responsible for these festivals got busted hard (with serious Police brutality) at the Battle of the Beanfield a few years later, it also split the convoy between the more political activists and the hustlers/drug dealers (some of the hippies who didn't want to get too involved in the drugs side became school teachers to my generation 😁 )

The #ravers looking nostalgically at this list of #drugs from #Stonehenge free festival of 1982 (most of whom would have been way underage anyway) seem not to realise #inflation is a thing, and the price of these illicit substances has remained pretty constant even into the modern era - if anything drugs became way more available in wider society by the 90s/00s, you didn't even need a secure chat app for them back then, just asked a friend of a friend)

The #tomcat wanted to keep the #stray #kitten that had just been found and was going to be just a foster

#cats #Caturday

It seems #Welsh speakers walk faster 😁

#Wales

2 #Fiat 500 - 2009 #petrol and 2023 #electric - to be fair, the #EV version hasn't grown that much in size considering the space required for the #batteries

#cars #autos #Fiat500Mastodon #Fiat #Stellantis #Italy

A #chippy in Northern #England sold #FishAndChips at 45p to celebrate the anniversary of their opening in 1972 (the year of my birth) - a large multicultural crowd filled the whole street to take advantage of this offer (fish and chips can be as much as £10-£18 these days) #food #Britain

(45p in 1972 would be worth about £5.25 in 2025)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c367py3041po

It is apparently #WorldRatDay today 🐀 #rat #rats

TIL - Tumble dryers in #Australia are often installed upside down - this is deliberate so the space on the top of the washing machine can be used for storing laundry supplies, and the controls for the dryer wouldn't be too high up to reach (which would be the case if installed the normal way up)

@marnanel an interesting example of how UK media has become way more liberal/progressive over the decades (which shouldn't be taken for granted) - I couldn't imagine Anglia News running a story like this 25 or 30 years ago, and even a post watershed programme might baulk and going into this level of detail..

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-03-29/medieval-infertility-cure-recommended-weasel-testicles

Driving home from the petrol station last night, I saw a juvenile #rat run past on a grass bank between the exit road and some automatic car wash. I saluted the rodent (which has far less impact on the #environment than I do in my motor car) 🐀

#urbanWildlife #England #Suffolk

in #1970s and #1980s #Britain, we had a kids #TV show called #Rainbow (made by #Thames #Television in #London) with 3 puppet characters (all gendered male) - not only would all 3 share a bed at the end of the night, but the #bear would put on pyjamas (so the rest of the day he was walking around completely naked other than his fur 😁 ). Also George the #hippo was pink and had an obviously camp accent 😁

#Cats which seem to know they are commiting #mischief , and try to hide their actions 😺

#Caturday

They're nicking the #wombats ! #USA #tourist #influencer and #hunter causes a shitstorm in #Australia after taking a baby #wombat from its mother (she should surely be arrested under #animalwelfare laws?)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d8m4vk0e9o

Bizzare #vandalism - someone has taken the effort to climb a light column on #pedestrian refuge in middle of the village and obscure keep left #sign with grey paint (they have also done the same to smaller sign on the #bollard, can't be seen in photo due to darkness). Seems more sociopathic than normal #graffiti (maybe someone pissed off the refuge is there in first place, it discourages speeding through the village, or angry that the local Speedwatch have put up a camera nearby?)

Some gammon is claiming logistics/warehouse businesses in *Mid #Suffolk * (a good 15-20km from #Ipswich) are not employing locals but staffed by "hordes of #Chinese citizens from the mainland".

If any of that were in the slightest true, I would have noticed this - I'm always driving around the area and I'm near enough only #ESEA person there other than my own relatives and a few local healthcare workers, (many of whom work at same place as me!)

The #bagpipe practice room of #Scotrail #trains

#Scotland #Transport

distances for overtaking #cyclists when #driving

#cars #bicycles #transport #RoadSafety

2002 #Renault #Scénic (based on the #Mégane), 1,9L #diesel manual transmission. Unusual green colour.

A compact #MPV , popular with seniors (whilst a similar size to superminis, they are taller and easier to get in and out of) #cars #autos

#tiger #80s

Its good they are setting this up for the teens and their parents, but why the fuck did we import the high school #prom into this country in the first place? It also imports the dysfunctional culture wars of USA #highSchools on top of our own social problems (such as youth seeing #TOWIE and #LoveIsland folk as role models)

#Essex #Brentwood

https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/shopping/pop-up-store-open-brentwood-9968365