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/
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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If people want to continue queuing in pubs that’s fine, and I appreciate there are occasions when it makes sense, but I’m just waiting for the angry reaction from someone in a queue when I walk up to bar in the correct fashion…
‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:29 PM
If people want to continue queuing in pubs that’s fine, and I appreciate there are occasions when it makes sense, but I’m just waiting for the angry reaction from someone in a queue when I walk up to bar in the correct fashion…
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I reckon this should be pretty good. Hopefully, we will see some more of that Crook magic. 🤞
Plus, Pearce Quigley is on my list of "Weird Crushes"! 😁
Plus, Pearce Quigley is on my list of "Weird Crushes"! 😁
January 31, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I reckon this should be pretty good. Hopefully, we will see some more of that Crook magic. 🤞
Plus, Pearce Quigley is on my list of "Weird Crushes"! 😁
Plus, Pearce Quigley is on my list of "Weird Crushes"! 😁
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
Kin’ ‘ell, needed that! If Tigers let these Saints play with ball in hand all match they’re fucked.
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
Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters (Awesome Records, 1987)
#Vinyl
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 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
Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters (Awesome Records, 1987)
#Vinyl
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
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
Petula Clark - Memphis (Pye Records, 1970)
#Vinyl
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 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
Petula Clark - Memphis (Pye Records, 1970)
#Vinyl
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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
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
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
the-cornish-historian.com/2024/12/10/t...
#Cornwall #Kernow #Cornish #Cornwall/Kernow
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
#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
Not sure why TNT Sport are showing the Tigers/Saints cup match today, but it’s a welcome treat…
#Rugby
#Rugby
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
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…
The day today in Leicester.
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The day today in Leicester.
Art attack! Downstairs at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester.
January 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Art attack! Downstairs at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester.
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
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?…
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
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! 😳
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
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…
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
Just £35 for this solid wood restoration project, ideal for the smaller house. IKEA can stick their flatpack right up their röv…
1/3: Last day of the People’s Open Exhibition at Leicester Museum & Gallery.
January 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
1/3: Last day of the People’s Open Exhibition at Leicester Museum & Gallery.
An early Camilla Parker Bowles?
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
An early Camilla Parker Bowles?
‘…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
They even have their own wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...
Chicken roundabout - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:16 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
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