If anyone watched the final scene of the final episode of the #Blackadder series, you will remember a very dark and empty feeling where things suddenly didn't feel so funny. In fact, it was a stark realisation just how wasteful, cruel, and unnecessary the "Great War" really was for the members of our families whom we never got to meet. My family saw many deaths, injuries, and cases of trauma caused by the numerous wars that we had no business being part of.

The irony of so-called privilege is that historically, people in hot countries with an abundance of resources were far more privileged and lucky than the people of Europe who worked especially hard just to survive. This image is a reminder of the young children who were sent to fetch chip and paper from the match factory and to return with finished boxes. They'd be paid a mere two pence for 144 boxes having being made. This image is of a young, tired mother who has probably been working between 16-18 hours. Under the table, her child rests on a depressingly makeshift bed with a short blanket, or maybe even just a jacket for warmth. Just imagine how much more privileged they'd have been if they'd been born with the resources and warmth of far away lands. Credit should be given to their ilk instead of undermined and forgotten. They built Britain and beyond.

A truly kind person will do good things even when their own situation seems bad.

A chilling photograph of the River Tyne, #Newcastle, #England in 1879. During this time, members of my family who had not yet moved to London were walking these very streets and using this very river.

A legend in the making. 🍺

I will be forever in love with the Anglo-Celtic Isles.

#Dunfermline, #Scotland 💚

The powers of Austria, Germany, and so on during the lead up to WW1 saw many assassinations of royals and world leaders, which isn't mentioned by "academics" of today. Once a royal was killed, be it France or elsewhere, the goal was to bring in the guise of "democracy" so that the people genuinely thought they had a say and so they accept the ridiculous decisions ruining their nations simply because they've been conned to think there was ever a choice. From France to Russia, we have seen the muder of the leadership and the introduction of so-called "democracy," or the equally deceiving regime of communism. When you ask why WW1 started, look into the black hand and their ilk. The Austrian monarch alone had his wife and nephew killed before attacking Serbia. Even his son died under very suspicious circumstances. If you don't know any of this, then fine. But if you do and still think we should have entered WW1, you literally support terror cells and the destruction of each nation. Our ancestors and those who missed them deserved better than they were offered. Think about how democracy has served us since its introduction (in the last century), and you will realise not a single vote ever prevented the world we have today. 🤝

I have always found great solace in the places that have been least affected by modernity. 🌳

Some places make me feel so connected to that which lived before me that I suddenly remember who and what I am.

When Lime-Bike hipsters step into the pub looking for Neck-Oil.

The reason that we were able to to smile through such tough times is because unlike now, we actually believed that we were doing the right thing.

Just got myself a lovely kebab