COVID Pandemic archaeology.
#covid #consett #Durham

Honesty.

Fortuna looking happy.
Found at Chesters Roman Fort, Northumberland, although this is definitely not Roman!

Cream cracker officionados of Mastodon:
Has anyone noticed a change in Jacob's Cream Crackers of late? I feel they have become wrong somehow. Too crisp, less seasoning?

Superficially twee, but really rather profound.
Topical, certainly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002xhy2/ann-droid

Catching some choons at the Durham Brass Picnic.
🎺 #Durham

Wild garlic and bluebells in Watergate forest park, Gateshead.
#gateshead #bloomscrolling

Petition
Migrate UK civil service to open-source software for data sovereignty & security
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766230

"The biggest moral issue in British Politics is corruption."

This is a slightly condensed audiobook reworking of the loosely fact-based '90s BBC TV drama "Our Friends in the North".

It's amazing how 30 years later, all of the issues are as starkly relevant as ever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0015b7p

To be fair, I can't think of a more quintessentially English desert to throw at the Crown Jewels than Apple Crumble and Custard.

With apologies to Cranachan throwers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx292zyyp8do

BBC News: Nouns used verbs to apply adjectives to other nouns.

Went for a walk through Watergate Forest Park today. The lake was almost completely frozen over. Ducks making heroic skid landings on the ice. 🦢🦆❄️ #gateshead

Fungi of Gateshead.

Locomotion No1 replica in steam earlier today at Shildon, County Durham. #railway200

Botanists investigate trackbed of the Stockton & Darlington Railway
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25169161.botanists-investigate-trackbed-stockton-darlington-railway/

Brusselton Incline, near Shildon, on the original route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, visited yesterday.
#railway200

#durham

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-6weH1Bgc