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Fyfe Robertson heads to Barnsley to explore the traditional game 'Nipsy' before it disappears altogether. Known locally as 'Piggy' or 'Peggy', this lively game sees players strike a wooden piece into the air and hit it again mid-flight, with locals measuring the distance.
"This is above all a miners' game."
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 2 November, 1964.
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It's apparently 'International Control Room Week' this week. Appropriately, nobody told us. 😂
Since, as many of you know, I work as a Route Controller in a railway Control, I thought it might be a lark to share (as much as I can...) a 'day in the life' of my desk.
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An early Halloween cartoon for @GuardianBooks

ALT Two figures sit on benches beside a lake. They are both reading books. One figure is labeled “Reading a vampire novel”, the other is labeled “Vampire reading a novel”. In the lake, the human reader, book and bench are perfectly reflected, but the vampire’s book appears to be floating above an empty bench.
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I've know I've posted this before, but I have gained a few more followers since who may not have seen it
Summer 1896: Children shrimp fishing, filmed by the Lumiére Brothers thought originally to be French, but recently discovered to be filmed in England
Enhanced by JP Lillenfeld
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Karma on Love is Blind Habibi deciding to end her relationship because her fiancé said it’s either him or her love of dancing. Not only did she choose dancing, she gave us a mfin word too.
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Is any of it going to fit him?
Lingerie retailer Bravissimo, which was set up by entrepreneur Sarah Tremellen almost 30 years ago, has been sold to a Japanese giant.
bit.ly/3BesAsH
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Thousands of years of Humanity, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World; Mars.
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Ladybird things I really, really wanted.
To try the official Princess test
Artist: Eric Winter
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With the revelation that Dave Grohl has fallen, it's finally time to admit that it is all men.
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If women really could ‘fuck their way to the top’, there’d be a hell of a lot more of us up there
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Here's that 1970s macho smut books alignment grid you asked for.
It was you, right? xitter.gq/PulpLibrarian/status/1…
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#OnThisDay 1981: A tiny baby squirrel is discovered in Oxfordshire by BBC producer John Paling.
Running out of ideas, John turns to his cat Beauty to act as adoptive mother.
Sammy the Squirrel
Clip taken from Squirrel on my Shoulder, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 4 August, 1981.





























