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Mark
@rfcider.bsky.social
Bimbling down the auld Corpse Road with a view to a pint or two...

Love a good walk, pubs, music, beer, art, cider, Leicester Tigers RFC, the Sooty Show.

Occasionally packin’ a 1953 FED-1 Camera

https://corbypubsafari.blogspot.com/
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A date for your diary…

#PreStressedCorby
Kin’ ‘ell, needed that! If Tigers let these Saints play with ball in hand all match they’re fucked.
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Game-on! A traditional rugby Sherry poured…

Fernando de Castilla Classic Dry Oloroso Sherry, lovely smooth dry, raisiny rich, slight nuttiness. Not the most complex Oloroso but sooo smooth and glyceriney.

#Sherry #Rugby
January 31, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The unique Indo-Psych Swamp Goth talent of Danielle Dax, who I wish I’d seen live when she was still performing…

Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters (Awesome Records, 1987)

#Vinyl
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Lunch is a mess of cheesy tastiness on Italian ‘Greek’ bread 🤷‍♂️. Music from our Grace, accompanied by Sly & Robbie of course. This isn’t necessarily my favourite Grace Jones album, but her version of Chrissie Hynde’s Private Life is…

Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Island, 1980)

#Vinyl #Cheese
January 31, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Bit of the auld Petula Clark with the pre-match lunch. Bit of a mixed bag, some good slower stuff in amongst the variety show filler. Not as good as Dusty, better than Cilla…

Petula Clark - Memphis (Pye Records, 1970)

#Vinyl
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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On this date in 1819, a man sold his wife by auction at a Cornish market…

the-cornish-historian.com/2024/12/10/t...
#Cornwall #Kernow #Cornish #Cornwall/Kernow
Two Shillings and Sixpence: A Cornish Wife Sale
From a time when such things were commonplace…
the-cornish-historian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Share a photograph of mountains that you’ve taken.

#ClassicMono #FilmPhotography
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Not sure why TNT Sport are showing the Tigers/Saints cup match today, but it’s a welcome treat…

#Rugby
a group of men standing next to each other with the words " this is not soccer " on the bottom right
ALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words " this is not soccer " on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Leicester art heads-up, tomorrow is the Jazz on Vinyl session at the Real Ale Classroom, artist in residence is Kev Fazackerley who has lots of framed art and a pile of sketches like these lovely life studies for sale. Beer is available too…
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Whisky O’Clock
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The day today in Leicester.
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM
‘Omeward Bound…
January 30, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Art attack! Downstairs at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester.
January 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The Aylestone Church Penny is now a decimal tuppence! WTF happened 😳

#HeritageScandal
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is surely the tipping point, even the most fervent MAGA supporters must see the utter wrong-headedness of this statement. Trump gone by Monday?…
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Calling Citra O’Clock quite early today, a terrific pint of the @oakhamales.bsky.social nectar at The Clarendon in Leicester, for just… £3.80! 😳
January 30, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Art up the New Walk, the Writers Pavement at the bottom, and a sculpture by John Atkin half way up. Sadly another sculpture that stood outside the IBM building, The Clicker, has gone, whereabouts unknown…
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Just £35 for this solid wood restoration project, ideal for the smaller house. IKEA can stick their flatpack right up their röv…
January 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
1/3: Last day of the People’s Open Exhibition at Leicester Museum & Gallery.
January 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
An early Camilla Parker Bowles?
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
‘…in 2012 a campaign was launched to commemorate the chickens with a series of statues; however in January 2013 Ditchingham Parish Council blocked plans for the "Chicken of the East" statue, which it described as a safety hazard.’ - wikipedia
January 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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🍏 We're looking for a Project Manager who loves community orchards as much as we do to join our team in #Manchester.

Sounds like you? Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4bF6AHV

⏰ Deadline: 8 February 2026

#CommunityOrchards #GreenJobs
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Aylestone the Hard Way. Signalling issues on the Midland Mainline mean delays and cancellations, and a 30 second connection at Kettering 😮‍💨
January 30, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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This is a wild ride! It’s also a Cambridgeshire story of murder and sex - you have been warned!
Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.
August 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM