@exilepots.bsky.social Good to see our old friend turning up on a 'Wanted' poster in the animated version of Fury from the Deep. They put a lot of interesting little touches in the animated stuff that DW fans will notice.

Football can be deeply satisfying at times... Just as well the US didn't play Belgium when they were really good... I wonder what trump will be telling brown-nose world champ infantino to do now to get the US back in the tournament. #2026WorldCup

'Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011'. If you're feeling down I think this David Hockney painting will work as a pick-me-up. Stunning. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c...

Some art by Catherine's tomb. Messages in Spanish as well, so I presume some Spanish children paid a visit. Lots of pomegranates left by the site. Went with a friend and her sister, both up from Herts. Their parents were history professors, so they were bound to stay a while here and at Mary's tomb.

Like a 5 year-old child (I'm 66) I exclaimed: "It's Gunnersaurus!" And I'm not even an Arsenal fan. Gunner's not quite as big as the 120+ foot long Titanousaurus - whose skeleton I saw in Peterborough Cathedral yesterday.

Just completed a short story about the six-legged cat Cloppers, who rides dinosaurs and dragons among other things. Should be available from Amazon as an eBook very soon, and is suitable for children from 3 to 120. #Caturday

...And next to my Dr. Who Annual is my Zoo Time Annual. Quite upset about Desmond's passing. We lose peoiple we liked when we were young on an ever regular basis, but some we're more sad about than others. Read his book about the surrealists in Spalding Library a few months ago.

And to complete the circle... My kindly Grandfather bought me a Dr. Who annual in the mid-1960s with William Hartnell on the cover with a giant ant on the cover among others. Able also.has this one.

On Easter Day the Antichrist has spoken... A screenshot from the BBC News website of sweary trump threatening Iran with stuff that would amount to war crimes if carried out. 👇

As the bombing of Iran's infrastructure has begun, war criminal can now be added to trump's CV.

From the Guardian website. A photo taken of the huge anti-racism protest march in London today to coincide with the #NoKings anti-trump protest in the US and elsewhere. Photo credit: Hannah McKay/Reuters. Live updates here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

From the BBC News website. People in Beirut finding solace in books, after their homes have been destroyed during the US/Israel-Iran war.

Currently working on another story in The Surreal World of... series after Jimmy Coocumber and Teddy Tinkle. As a teaser, here's my pencil drawing of Cloppers the six-legged cat riding a Triceratops. #Caturday #Dinosaurart

Carlos Ajax, Codchester's Peruvian midfield genius, with the famous 'Ajax' neck tattoo. From The Surreal World of... Teddy Tinkle (a Short Story)

I'm not sure if I've seen a raven - apart from near the Tower of London when I was a kid. Crowland is known for its... jackdaws, like this young chap/chapette. www.paulrance.com/CrowlandBird...

Confusingly, there's a US Photoplay that seems like a gossip-type magazine.

Just had a look, and the first two names to come up... I may start buying some of these - and old comics. I still have some of my Mum's Photoplay magazines from the '60s and early '70s.

Screenshot from the BBC News website today. 17-year-old Oscar feeling "optimistic" after the Greens win the Gorton and Denton by-election. He says some of his friends who are migrants were "scared" of reform winning the by-election. They would have become even more extreme if they had of won.

I did try breadsticks during Covid - and hummus. Was trying a lot of stuff then. I think these might have been the breadsticks. As they were Spanish I thought: "Ha, exotic."

An array of snowdrops in Spalding, Lincolnshire a couple of days ago. There's a "Do not pick the flowers" sign up and thankfully people seem to be leaving the flowers alone. Daffodils waiting for their turn to emerge.

The Surreal World of... Teddy Tinkle. Includes the infamous corner flag incident. Available now on Amazon. UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GL3DMKQF US www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL3DMKQF Canada www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GL3DMKQF Australia www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GL3DMKQF

From the BBC News website; Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde condemn the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis.

2/2 “Wendy seemed thrilled to see VS, as she enthused: 'I musta listened to Goldilocks Goldball a hundred times already.' Sylvester reciprocated with a compliment about Wendy’s novel Orange Face, Black Heart. 'I love how evil is subtly demolished.'” www.amazon.co.uk/Surreal-Worl... #wokefiction

Here's a free pre-Christmas gift. The Surreal World of Jimmy Coocumber will be on my site for the next 5 days, before it's only available to buy. Probably for a massive 99 cents. paulrance.com/JimmyCoocumb...

Black cats at football (soccer) matches #2 Not sure of the year, but it's a Luton Town home match in the 1950s (courtesy Luton Vids on YouTube).

I guess a few of you will remember when the streaker craze started. There was even a lad at my senior school who was, in dear ol' John Arlott's mind, a "freaker" (from my book, Made in Luton).

Some things you never forget and the Soweto massacre was one of them (from my book, Made in Luton). 👇

I liked the fact that Charlemagne was probably one of my great-great grandfathers (x plenty). But the excitement faded when I realised most Europeans with European ancestry are also probably his great-grandchildren (x plenty). Extract from my book, Made in Luton.

A few of the notable events of the early 1960s in my book (the assassination of JFK is mentioned elsewhere), Made in Luton. Growing up in the '60s and '70s in Luton and Bedfordshire, mentions of James Hanratty were many, as was the Great Train Robbery - and in Bedford Hanratty was executed in 1962.