Colin Parte 🇵🇸
@colinparte.bsky.social
Interests are photography, chess, reading, history. Intolerant to bigotry, racism & other idiocy. Dabbles in selling nice old things. Clinomaniac.
Those dapper Victorians and their hats.
February 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Those dapper Victorians and their hats.
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Rare Queen Victoria Green post box on Rochester High Street.
February 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Rare Queen Victoria Green post box on Rochester High Street.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
February 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
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I don’t think he’d even be in the first 20. Read a history book lads.
Oh, Daily Mail, never let history get in the way of a dramatic headline.
“Will Andrew become the first royal to go to prison?”
The Tower of London would like a word.
“Will Andrew become the first royal to go to prison?”
The Tower of London would like a word.
February 15, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I don’t think he’d even be in the first 20. Read a history book lads.
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The actual title for this is "Somebody Suggests Getting A Chippy Tea"
Self-Portrait in a Cap https://collections.artsmia.org/art/42108/
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
The actual title for this is "Somebody Suggests Getting A Chippy Tea"
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© Steve McCurry - Train Platform at Old Delhi, 1983.
February 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM
© Steve McCurry - Train Platform at Old Delhi, 1983.
A nice bloke I photographed in the same spot in 2018.
February 15, 2026 at 9:39 AM
A nice bloke I photographed in the same spot in 2018.
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Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.
February 15, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.
Well, that was a short summer. Naturally, we’ve run out of heating oil too.
a man wearing a hat and ear muffs is making a face
ALT: a man wearing a hat and ear muffs is making a face
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Well, that was a short summer. Naturally, we’ve run out of heating oil too.
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“I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better.” @sjblakemore
July 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better.” @sjblakemore
I saw this picture of my Dad having fun in Morocco some years ago, for the first time yesterday. I love it.
February 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I saw this picture of my Dad having fun in Morocco some years ago, for the first time yesterday. I love it.
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This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old!
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
February 14, 2026 at 11:05 AM
This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old!
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
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Being nice really matters. In the depths of cancer, a woman carried my little bag of shopping, a bus driver helped me get on the bus, a cabbie reduced the charge for the trip from Aldgate to Bart's for chemo. You never know what is going on in someone else's life so just be kind.
My mother died this week. I’m not posting this for sympathy, although thank you. But I realised I was so extremely grateful for people who showed small kindnesses this week. People who let me out while I was driving to her deathbed. People who smiled when I got stuck at the self service supermarket.
February 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Being nice really matters. In the depths of cancer, a woman carried my little bag of shopping, a bus driver helped me get on the bus, a cabbie reduced the charge for the trip from Aldgate to Bart's for chemo. You never know what is going on in someone else's life so just be kind.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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He wasn't initially called to religion, but then he saw the light.
February 14, 2026 at 9:13 AM
He wasn't initially called to religion, but then he saw the light.
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In today's "things I covet" 👇
Metal and leather straight-back dresser trunk, c.1890. It converted from steamer trunk to dresser so the traveler was not required to unpack.
Metal and leather straight-back dresser trunk, c.1890. It converted from steamer trunk to dresser so the traveler was not required to unpack.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
In today's "things I covet" 👇
Metal and leather straight-back dresser trunk, c.1890. It converted from steamer trunk to dresser so the traveler was not required to unpack.
Metal and leather straight-back dresser trunk, c.1890. It converted from steamer trunk to dresser so the traveler was not required to unpack.
Haven’t trimmed my beard for a few weeks and I don’t planned to do so for another month or so. You needed to know.
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Haven’t trimmed my beard for a few weeks and I don’t planned to do so for another month or so. You needed to know.
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inside you are two humidifiers
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 AM
inside you are two humidifiers
A fascinating book full of interesting historical details, e.g. Russia was named after red headed Vikings who traded slaves along the banks of the Volga. I’d no idea they had travelled that far. Lots more too.
February 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
A fascinating book full of interesting historical details, e.g. Russia was named after red headed Vikings who traded slaves along the banks of the Volga. I’d no idea they had travelled that far. Lots more too.
The girl in the coffee shop this morning said she heard there might be some sunshine this afternoon 🥺
an older man wearing sunglasses and a red shirt is sitting in a car .
ALT: an older man wearing sunglasses and a red shirt is sitting in a car .
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February 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The girl in the coffee shop this morning said she heard there might be some sunshine this afternoon 🥺
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New Zealand never needed this rule because we grew up with an ice cream commercial that taught us "if you can't see the water, you're in underpants"
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM
New Zealand never needed this rule because we grew up with an ice cream commercial that taught us "if you can't see the water, you're in underpants"
Post a tree you photographed.
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Post a tree you photographed.