Louisa Whitton

@whittipedia

Obsessions include cricket, transport, music, poetry and remembering useless facts. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ Officially autistic since 2025. #ActuallyAutistic since the 1960s.

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Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· 12d

Here's my Yorkshire version...

NOW style album cover with the title "NOWT SO QUEER AS FOLK"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· 22d

That's nothing to worry about, I'm sure

Screenshot from BlueSky, showing that a post has been reposted once, but also that "Nobody has reposted this yet". Both can't be true.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jun 29

And there's a Bob Willis face for every eventuality

Bob Willis plods back to his bowling mark, grumpily polishing the ball. On his face is a look of absolute disgust.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jun 28

2/ Cambridge South gets curves, flower beds and architect-designed splendour

Cambridge South station. Curves. Smooth lines. Flower beds. Everything designed to look sleek, modern and appealing.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jun 28

The North - South divide epitomised in new stations - 1/ Northumberland Line gets embarrassed bus shelters in dingy corners of car parks

Ashington station. It is just a bus shelter. In a car park. Oh, and with railings positioned to make it look as if you're not allowed in.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jun 24

Enjoy your usual daytime activities... but only if your usual daytime activities are skulking about in the shadows

From the Met Office weather forecast -

Air pollution daily level - low
Enjoy your usual outdoor activities

From the same forecast -

UV - high
Seek shade during midday hours, cover up and wear sunscreen

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· May 19

I remember Leicester in the 1980's when the bus company was called "Midland Fox". Thankfully, their buses didn't make fox noises.

A Midland Fox "fox cub" minibus from the 1980's. It is painted red at the back and yellow at the front, with the outline of a fox on the side.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· May 10

He'd probably turn up here instead...

A street sign in Orlando, Florida, for "Clacton Drive"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· May 1

If you think English counties are crazy, Scotland says "hold my beer". My favourite is Cromartyshire - all 23 pieces of it.

From the Wikipedia entry for Cromartyshire:

Cromartyshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Chromba) was a county in the Highlands of Scotland, comprising the medieval "old shire" around the county town of Cromarty and 22 enclaves and exclaves transferred from Ross-shire in the late 17th century. The largest part, six times the size of the old shire, was Coigach, containing Ullapool and the area north-west of it. In 1889, Cromartyshire was merged with Ross-shire to become a new county called Ross and Cromarty, which in 1975 was merged into the new council area of Highland.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· May 1

Is this how it works?

The Family Guy skin colour chart meme.

The hand of an unseen official is holding a colour chart up to a man's face. The chart has skin tone colours - white to pink are categorised "okay" and 3 shades of brown are categorised "not okay"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 22

Lord's never was Botham's favourite

Ian Botham walks up the steps at the pavilion at Lord's cricket ground. It is the second Test of 1981, and Botham, in his last match as England captain, has just been dismissed for his second duck of the match. The MCC members are blanking him.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 4

Finally, Sowerby Bridge Station, for the train back home.

A little brick station building with multiple chimney stacks

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 4

And then another pleasant canalside walk to Sowerby Bridge (every place here seems to be a shibboleth), with the sun slowly sinking in the sky.

A canal towpath, lined by trees casting long shadows courtesy of the low sun

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 4

At Todmorden, I caught the train once more, this time as far as Mytholmroyd, which proved to be a little gem of a place. I didn't visit the clog factory, instead opting for the wonderful Blue Teapot café

View across a road towards a church. A brown road sign points towards a "Clog Factory"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 4

I left the train at the canalside village of Walsden, before heading up the towpath towards Todmorden

The sun is shining on a canal, with a narrowboat and a bridge visible in the middle distance

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Mar 4

It was a beautiful day today with sunshine and clear skies as winter passes the baton on to spring. I took the opportunity to explore the #CalderValley line in #WestYorkshire

View from a train window. Another line of track is visible, along with fields and electricity pylons.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Feb 27

Some Stanley Spencer energy there

Stanley Spencer's painting, "The Cookham Resurrection", depicting the dead in a Berkshire graveyard bursting out of their tombs and back to life

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Feb 26

"Starmer's Chocolate Fireguard regime will make Britain a third-world backwater"

In the style of a Telegraph headline for an article by Allister Heath

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Feb 23

To be included in the new version of "Happy Families"

A very old "Happy Families" card game which definitely didn't have a Mr and Mrs Conduct-in-Public-Office and their two children

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Feb 15

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

The album cover for the Fine Young Cannibals' album "The Raw and the Cooked".

The cover is terrible, even by the standards of the time, with the most prominent feature being the letters "FYC" in a pink block font. A fuzzy black and white photograph, or possibly photo montage, of the band is squeezed underneath. There is a background that appears to be rejected misshapes of alphabetti spaghetti.

The cover gives no hint as to the brilliance of the music.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Feb 6

I propose it should be at the geographical centre of the UK, which, according to Wikipedia, is off the coast in Morecambe Bay

A screenshot from Wikipedia, reading:

United Kingdom

A position "in the middle of Morecambe Bay", approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off the cast at Morecambe, Lancashire, at Ordnance Survey grid reference SD4157566760

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jan 29

What fresh hell is this?

A screenshot of options on Bluesky. After "Add to lists" there is an option (marked "New") to "Go live"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jan 27

As Pope Pious XXXII said to all his potential successors...

A screenshot from the result of my attempt to draw a map of Vatican City in the #Mapster game.

The text reads:
Score: 365 - Abstract Art Prize
Apparently my Vatican City looks like a potato. Can you do better?

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Jan 1

"Greatest of all time?" "Scape"? Or "Gets my"?

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Dec 21

England's abject performance contrasts with the other current Test series. West Indies are underdogs to New Zealand, but they're not giving up without a real fight.

Kavem Hodge celebrates his hundred in the Test at Mount Maunganui

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Dec 15

Meanwhile, in Britain this is how we do new stations...

The new station at Ashington. The only building is a small bus shelter affair. There is a mess of bollards, railings, lights and other paraphernalia.

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Dec 8

Ah, actually it was the other Test at Cardiff, and @missingintheslips.bsky.social was right!

Screenshot of commentary:

"Cook is now leaving the field. Needs some ice? Dean Cosker on as 12th man. Lyth into the slips, where he fields for Yorkshire"

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Dec 8

Tom Maynard?

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Dec 4

Scotscalder to Beasdale alone takes over 14 hours

Train time for travelling from Scotscalder to Beasdale. Depart at 08:52 to arrive 14 hours 19 minutes later at 23:11 - the journey involves 3 changes (at Inverness, Perth and Glasgow Queen Street)

Louisa Whitton@whittipedia· Nov 22

And the antagonist...