1971 - For a great deal longer than they haven't, children did not need an excuse or to be forced into outdoor activities with their family. In fact, being outdoors and bonding with our families was the perfect excuse to be out.

Trying means everything to me. I do not expect anyone to break world records. Nor do I expect them not to struggle or make mistakes. Getting up, facing one's insecurities, and being part of the world is what, in my eyes, makes someone a hero.

When I observe humanity, be it in the past or the present, I'm not so sure that it's animals whom need domesticsting.

Long lost #London is what silence would look like if it could be photographed.

Like many facets within our culture, the public house and the people of Britain can not thrive or survive without one another.

The Welsh Harp, (Temporarily closed) Market Sq, #WalthamAbbey, #EN9
📸 ChelseaDan5, @BritainsPubs

Britain's pubs should remain forever young, however old.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet St, #London, #EC4A @BritainsPubs

Yorkshire

Many things are forgivable. But some things, aren't.

The thing that this Bonnie Blue woman most highlights (other than the obvious decline of female decency), is the tragic lack of moral decency among the type of men who watch or take part in it.

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

You only realise how fascinating, difficult, and beautiful the bagpipes usually are when you hear someone who can't actually play them.

Vandalism is now carried out in front of people's eyes. Expect they've become so used to it that they confuse it for art.

I wonder when the so-called environmentalists will get around to opposing the humongous data centres that are being used to power AI and other nefarious projects of which each take up more power and exert more pollution than everywhere else in the western world?

Once, the beautiful pub frontages that we currently cherish seamlessly blended into the very surroundings that now make them stand out like a sore thumb.

Anchor Tap, 20A Horselydown Ln, #London, #SE1 @BritainsPubs