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BigDaftDad

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Cumbria, but not anymore. Migrated further up the map. Ex NHS lead apron model, now sit behind a cavity magnetron. Ish. Explains my radiant personality, I suppose. 3 months younger than Bagpuss. ☎️01 811 8055 #IC276

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've been told Building Control will want to see photos of all the work. What? Like this?
A twat points at a freshly insulated ceiling.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, I made it off the hill before the weather shat itself. Fucking windy up there nonetheless.
A windswept Labrador on a windswept Scottish mountain.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Makes mental note to be off the hill by 4..
A rainfall chart, charting some rainfall for 1600 tomorrow.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wiltshire police released this picture of someone they want to question about the incident
Jeremy Beadle peering over a bush wearing a frankly unconvincing disguise.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Fairey GannetAn gargantuan fry up
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So, my elbow seems to have decided to elbow differently. Brilliant.
A lumpy pasty elbow.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'I hear you're banning media outlets from the White House now, Father'
A gentleman in tweed and spectacles stands behind a stone wall.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things you only ever see when naked.
Sign in a shower imploring one to not fall over, while reminding the showererer that non slip mats are available from reception.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hugh Dennis as Mr Strange, sits on a (thankfully leather and therefore wipe clean) sofa. He is holding an open Tetra Pak milk carton and the words MILKY MILKY appear in white text on a red background.

If a picture ever suggested a smell, this is right up there.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'was'
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Scabby Plastic Lorry is off to live on a Scabby Plastic Lorry farm. #Algal
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hahaha. Fuck off.
A screenshot of an eBay notification imploring me to not let a can of Rich Energy slip away.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Name your favourite Bob
Spit The Dog. With an inexpensive Des Lynam lookalike.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I call this one 'fat bloke cuts his way out from behind a shed he's just built'
An oscillating multitool cuts away a strip of planking.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sigh
A wood burner containing burning wood.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Whoever bought that's gonna be busy.
A still from a video of a tattered Montego running up a kerb and over a traffic cone outside an Ibis hotel. In the video the driver, Dom Joly (for it is he) immediately after the alarming appearance of the alarming car driven by the alarming man bellows MINICAB? at the traumatised person on the pavement.

One for the kids, obvs. It's all Ubers and electric twatplanks now.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What odds are William Hill giving for him resigning again within the next 6 months?
Screenshot of BBC news website with the headline

'Parliamentary investigation resumes into Nigel Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election'

Good.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Marshalling on a local rally tomorrow. A bit of authority and a whistle. Mrs L has already drawn some uncomfortable parallels.
Mal Whyte as Benson in the Old Grey Whistle Theft
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This car reeks.
A cheeseboard in a car. A cheese dashboard as it were
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alan and Lynn on Dan's sofa, as Alan informs Lynn that Dan and his wife are 'sex people'
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Boatse
Some of a submarine
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When you decide to have a bit of bread and butter and there's a Labrador in the house.
A hopeful yet ultimately disappointed black Labrador with a besocked foot across his eyes
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mrs L is looking at AirBNBs. She's found one where the shit ticket looks to be hung on the shower hose
A bathroom. The toilet paper appears to be hanging from the shower hose, although I'm told it's an optical illusion, I have chosen to ignore this reasonable explanation.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Waiting for the paint to dry on the newly trimmed corner post, and then it's a wrap!
A kitchen. It is green.
The wall tiles are green and cream. 
The walls are cream.
The worktops and the floor are brown.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Shite, but they've got their heads screwed on.
Two gentlemen wearing Scotland football shirts in a stadium (presumably football) hold a flag saying 'INFANTINO IS A FANNY'
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scotland certainly saw through him early on.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm fitting a kitchen. I do not care for it.
A green kitchen unit.

And another green kitchen unit.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Attenborough looking other his right shoulder while sitting in a directors chair, with the caption above 
'And it was just over there that Raoul Moat got proper bad boy wasted by the Babylon'
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It lives!!
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Had an amazing day yday over Ben Avon and Beinn A Bhuird on the bike. Top tip. When applying sunscreen, make sure you ALL the exposed skin...
Rear view of an ankle. There's a definite triangle of burn above where the sock was and the factor 50 wasn't.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
28 miles bike and hike in the Cairngorms tomorrow.
A colour chart from light pink to crimson.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Graunuad headline;- 'Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UL's largest children's prison'

This is what we're up against
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Bean tins, pop can, calcium carbide, water and 12 year old boys. Best combined chemistry and physics lesson he ever had.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hydration break
Bear Grylls, drinking dilute orange juice between hotels.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ruh-Roh
An elderly Defender with an L plate in the windscreen
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Chania Maritime museum, Crete.
The front of a stuffed shark, mounted on a wall, with stuck on googly eyes, which always reminds me of the Pathetic Sharks in VizPuffer Fish with Puffy Eyes. 

Getting the cucumber slices to stick on underwater must be a challenge.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'I like what the Sculptor's done here. It really draws your eye'
Let's not mince words here, it's a stone lions nipsy and ball sack.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm not saying this sandwich has allowed me the gift of predicting the future, but..
An opened sandwich with a bite out of it, showing 1/2 a jar of English Mustard remaining inside.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Not forgetting the inspection if contraband in a woodland glade.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'I want to see how a war is fought, so badly'
Miranda Richardson and Rowan Atkinson as Nurse Mary and Captain Blackadder from 'General Hospital's, Blackadder goes forth
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just the one?
'Bobson Dugnutt etc...'
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Reform want to cut red tape, to drive a coach and horses through Health and Safety legislation. I say,' after you, frog face'
A recently inverted, battered bruised, petrol soaked racism enthusiast being helped out of the wreckage of a plane his own hammer caused to crash. As hubris goes....
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Gah. Time for a rebuild with ethanol resistant seals. Then you can run it on methanol for that er, distinctive exhaust note. And people not believing you when you tell them it's gone on fire, as happened to me once when driving this
An offenhauser engined Indycar, the Jim Robbins Special.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Whenever we got Basil groomed, he looked like this again 2 days later.
A Cairn Terrier. Or is it Chewbacca?
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Mrs L remarked, as I fitted the new grille and light surrounds;- 'It looks like it's had botox' Proof that you can't polish a turd, but rolling it in glitter is always an option.
A stinking fetid receptacle full of sweetie wrappers, empty pop bottles and other assorted filth

And a wheelie bin.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Last week the door top failed and to all intents and purposes, tried to be a wing. Thoroughly impractical to have to ratchet strap round both doors to keep it on, so... Best fit I've had of any aftermarket panels so far.
A Land Rover with a very shiny bare metal 2 part door. As 'dry fits' go, it's a doozie
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Oh lackaday, and forsooth. I appear to have a bar in the garage.
A barrel, a keg and a hand pump on a trestle table.

The Land Rover in the background is for sale.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Aw bollocks. I've jumped the gun..
A screenshot of an email to me, received after applying to join the Labour Party.
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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... Starmer latest: PM set for crunch meeting with Streeting in No 10 before King's Speech - BBC News
Saboo 'You know nothing of the crunch!'
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