Getting the words ‘cat scratching post’ into a House of Lords speech just now on family businesses. The first commercially available cat-scratching post in the UK was that by Robinson’s pet store In Newcastle’s Grainger Market in the 1950s! 😻

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Ambleside Sports: an annual celebration of Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling, fell running, and athletics, but also one of the oldest bicycle race meetings in the world (much older than the Tour de France). #Photography #BelieveInFilm

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Cracking start to the day. In London for the week, Pause for Thought on BBCRadio 2 Sara Cox Bkfst Show. Inspired by the ‘don’t walk, boogie’ sign in Flares nightclub window opp my Toon centre office AND the song to follow: ‘yes sir…’ 😍⚽️🖤🤍🖤🤍🪩🫶🙏

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Morris Minor 1000 at Carlisle Cathedral, gracious history comes in many forms.

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Someone posted this pic of Ingleton-gone-by yesterday and it occurred to me that if cars were still the width of the one pictured parked in the square, that road wouldn’t need to be a one-way street today. Cars have gone crazily disproportionate to purpose.

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