Former (?!) BBC TWO and The One Show TV presenter, product and vehicle designer, old stone mover, craftsman, cartoonist,jazz singer, funny chap, ex mill worker.
The North
Joined May 2011
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Garry Lavin retweeted
Ce CRS fait clairement du rugby. Je pense même deviner qu'il est troisième ligne aile.
Garry Lavin retweeted
And in other news, an old man gets to tell a dead woman whats best for her, but hes a "hisToriAn"
so its ok and therefore actually means hes being super progressive and caring.
I thought women who were ALIVE didnt want to be told what to do by men, now even after they`ve DIED they can still be told whats best for them.
Garry Lavin retweeted
Ha. What load of rubbish and you know it. It’s a black spiritual sung in changing rooms and bars…sung for decades with innuendo and hand movements. Crowd used to sing Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory
Garry Lavin retweeted
All these people and their stupid diagnosis. Most of my friends would actually be considered neurodivergent by these standards ADHD, ADD, Asperger’s, Autistic etc. But it also makes many of them honest, outspoken, and not afraid of caring what anyone thinks of them
Garry Lavin retweeted
#OTD in 1929
(The brand new New York Central Building)
👇🧵
Cover of The New Yorker, October 26, 1929
Theodore G. Haupt
#TheNewYorkerCover #TheodoreHaupt #NewYorkCentrallBuilding #Manhattan
Garry Lavin retweeted
Out of nowhere 🥷
🔋 #PowerPlay brought to you by Conrad Energy
#COYQ
Garry Lavin retweeted
hearing for the first time that novelist Patrick O'Brian (of _Master & Commander_ fame) invented much of his own biography,
didn't know how to sail & had no practical experience doing it, wasn't Anglo-Irish gentry but rather English working class, barely educated, concealed his early marriage...
Everything he learned about sailing & the 19th c was from obsessive research & reading books.
O'Brian comes out to be a far more puzzling, eccentric, twisted, anachronistic figure who lived in isolation on a small hobby farm in France, deeply secretive, insecure, brooding, exiled, aloof, yet TOTALLY COMMITTED TO THE BIT.
I like him even more now (am currently reading Master & Commander)
Garry Lavin retweeted
"War is a place where young people who don't know each other and don't hate each other but kill each other based on decisions made by people who know each other and hate each other but don't kill each other."
‘I am utterly DISGUSTED by your rampant, pathetic cowardice.’
Former Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley BLASTS @alexarmstrong after he suggested he wouldn’t fight for his country.
Garry Lavin retweeted
Back in August, I wrote in @Telegraph that "La Belle France could edge Britain in the bond market ugly contest".
Despite the UK's ongoing fiscal incontinence since the summer, that prediction could yet come true.
But if the French sovereign bond market does blow up before Britain's, it will be "no time for schadenfreude - or joie maligne as they say in France".
Because a market implosion in Paris would almost certainly quickly spread to London.
My latest "Economic Agenda" column @Telegraph
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telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Garry Lavin retweeted
I'm detecting just the slightest hint of jealousy.
Garry Lavin retweeted
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
Garry Lavin retweeted
“The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic… It is a land where bus conductors are good-tempered and policemen carry no revolvers. In no country inhabited by white men is it easier to shove people off the pavement.”
George Orwell
Garry Lavin retweeted
The one thing we know is never accuse your opponents of being a weak side. It is like accusing your geographical neighbour of lacking haddock. Most cricketing opposition have twenty-two arms and legs, and nothing is decided until it is decided.
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Still one of the craziest things ever seen in cricket 🔥
Kevin Pietersen just sticks a blindfold on and faces a bowling machine at full pace, Can’t see the ball at all, only hears the machine. Then he starts belting massive sixes like it’s nothing 💪 even plays a switch-hit while blindfolded. One of them went straight through a window 😂
@KP24 be honest, Was the really blindfold actually proper and you couldn’t see a thing, or could you still peek a bit through it? 🤨
Garry Lavin retweeted
🚨: Engineers just proposed a 36 mile long spacecraft called 'Chrysalis' that could carry 2400 people to Alpha Centauri, just 4 light-years away from us, on one way trip. The journey will take 400 years!
The passengers who board it will never see Earth again. Neither will their children. Or their grandchildren.
Garry Lavin retweeted
L1647 Scottish Landscape acrylic and oil on paper 11x16 inches £200 unframed, if interested in purchasing please message me.
#Scotland #Landscape #Tree
Garry Lavin retweeted
You could capture quite a few cyclists with a net cannon, and then release them safely somewhere else.
(Minus the bikes).
Cyclists are continuing to ride along the newly pedestrianised section of Oxford Street, despite being asked to dismount.
Around seven security staff have been stationed near Oxford Circus, calling out to cyclists to get off their bikes, with mixed success.
More on this story ➡️ bbc.in/3W32bbT
#OxfordStreet #London #Cycling #Pedestrianisation