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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 01/10/2026

In TFIr#888: cheese, Gandhi, Neve Campbell, the Orient Express, the R101, Jenny Lind, Poe, Frank Herbert, elephants, Aristotle, Orford Ness, Paul McCartney, a Kelvin wave, FoodNeverComes, a giant cucumber, Angry Anderson & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the Space Shuttle being moved to the launch pad at night

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 26/09/2026

I played WoW for many years. Killing murlocs was a way of life ;)

World of Warcraft. In Ironforge a female night elf has killed the two unique murloc pets and the person dressed as a murloc. Oops.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 24/09/2026

In TFIr#887: the Bill of Rights, Einstein, Ronald Lacey, Lisabeth Scott, blasphemy, Jimmy Carter, Jane Goodall, coffee, William McGonagall, T. rexes, dark stars, Nefertiti, pythons, ice loss, Stephanie Cole, Peter Max & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 17/09/2026

Avast! In TFIr#886: Frances Farmer, Anthony Babington, pirates, hobbits, Chas Hodges, Devils Tower, Victoria Vetri, Taylor Swift, fat bears, Apophis, Anfield, Red Bull, champagne, a wise parrot, Sunny, Catherine Ringer & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the planet Neptune, seen in infrared by the Hubble Space Telescope glowing a pale blueish-white with its rings and moons.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 10/09/2026

In TFIr#885: Jennifer Nettles, Anthony Perkins, Roald Dahl, Grace Kelly, Clive Sinclair, Anne Francis, Switzerland, bats, WIMPs, Guinness, Anak Krakatau, the IgNobels, Richard O'Sullivan, Gloria Steinem, Jive Bunny & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a painting of Boston in 1801 showing the Old State House and the square in front of it with a carriage, a horse-drawn wagon and two men moving a cart as well as other people and horses.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Apparently it is National Teddy Bear Day... 🍰

Two small teddy bears in red waistcoats are lifting up another bear wearing a red ribbon to get into a clear plastic tub of cupcakes while a fourth bear wearing a purple sash looks into the tub from the side.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 03/09/2026

In TFIr#884: Jennie Lee, George Eastman, Voyager 1, Claude Renoir, Grandma Moses, Henry Every, the Lusitania, Star Trek, a computer bug, Pink, owls, Mars, Nazca, food deliveries, an arsonist, corals, Peter Cullen, Helch & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a photograph of RMS Lusitania docking at the Cunard terminal in New York City in 1907.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 01/09/2026

This might interest you. It is an undated flyer from the Brooklands Society (I would guess late 60s or early 70s). I just discovered it while going through some postcards and pictures.

A promotional flyer for the Brooklands Society, probably in the 1960s, depicting Roy Nockolds' painting of cars racing on the banked curve in the 1937 500 Miles Race at Brooklands. A silver car, number 30 is just ahead of a red car, number 20, with three other cars behind them. The painting was to be used as the society's Christmas Card, sold at £1 per dozen.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 27/08/2026

In TFIr#883: dreams, Ingrid Bergman, Liverpool, the Great Fire of London, San Marino, Fearne Cotton, Viking 2, Pepys, an owl, Greenland, a tank, Maradona, gin, the Cat in the Hat, starfish, Noel Godin, Dolly Parton & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a painting of people fleeing the Great Fire of London as it engulfs the city

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 20/08/2026

In TFIr#882: Elizabeth Báthory, Robert Moog, the Demon Core, Dua Lipa, Galileo, Chikin Ramen, Katherine Johnson, Titian, bats, tuna, Rongorongo, a parking ticket, contrails, a Ferrari Luce, Hayden Panetierre, Frank Beard & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The words "THE FRIDAY IRREGULAR" in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 13/08/2026

In TFIr#881: xertzing, Macbeth, Gary Larson, Princess Anne, the Panama Canal, Julie Newmar, Davy Crockett, Blaise Pascal, Mo Mowlem, Any Adams, the Sun, Guinness, a wingwalker, Dobby, a Mars Bar, Jackie, William Orbit & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

An aerial photograph of the Battle of Britain and the words 'The Friday Irregular' coloured as the Union Jack.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 06/08/2026

In TFIr#880: psithurism, Viking 2, Shirley Jackson, cats, Schrödinger, Hedy Lamarr, the IBM PC, H.G. Wells, Terry Pratchett, snails, UFOs in the LHC, the Shroud of Turin, chess, marijuana, Jimmy Cricket, Jeanne Gibson & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 30/07/2026

The apex predator waiting to leap out at passing victims to demand tickletums... ;)

A black cat sitting by a dustbin partially hidden by a wall and a telephone post.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 30/07/2026

In TFIr#879: bayardism, rum, Frances Farmer, the Jungfrau, Barack Obama, Lizzie Borden, William Wallace, Marilyn Monroe, Bernard Lovell, the WWW, birdsong, Jodrell Bank, pyrocumulonimbus, DNA, siblings, Bill Oddie, Zippy & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 28/07/2026

If he did it was not used. The deck in Live and Let Die was the Tarot of the Witches, paintings by Fergus Hall. (I have the deck). There is a Dali-designed deck but this is not it.

The High Priestess card from The Tarot of the Witches and the copyright/information card about the deck

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 23/07/2026

In the Jentastic TFIr#878: kakistocracy, Jennifer Lopez, Alex Higgins, BASE jumping, Bugs Bunny, Jenny Holzer, tigers, Thomas Gray, Jennifer Garner, a python, a pen, pigs, Rutland, Barksy, Jennifer Finch, Gary Sobers & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the building housing the Bank of England

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 16/07/2026

In TFIr#877: emojis, Jane Austen, the Mary Rose, Mel Smith, Apollo 11, Nicola Benedetti, chess, Robert Burns, Paloma Faith, Vic Morrow, tigers, hobbits, Iron Man, Ruth Ellis, peanut butter, Bonnie Tyler, Sam Neill & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a contemporary picture of the Tudor ship Mary Rose

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 09/07/2026

In TFIr#876: Lady Jane Grey, Waterloo, Caesar, John Dee, Shannon Doherty, Live Aid, Jane Goodall, Mozilla, Kevin Mitnick, guinea pigs, Phoebe Cates, Kamo'oalewa, seagulls, the LHC, Lego, the Hum, a message in a bottle & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular in green capitals and a white and brown guinea pig who is eating the 'I' of "Irregular".

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 02/07/2026

In TFIr#875: komorebi, CERN, bikinis, the Beatles, Veronica Lake, chocolate, Roswell, Kevin Bacon, Betty Ford, Wimbledon, Kafka, Ronald Lacey, bees, the ISS, atlatls, NOAA, Whidbey, Yandex, Victor Willis, Penelope Keith & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The words 'The Friday Irregular' patterned as the US flag against a background of exploding fireworks

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 25/06/2026

In TFIr#874: thermotics, George II, Felicia Day, Tunguska, the iPhone, Tau, Liv Tyler, tartan, Nostradamus, Jane Austen, tree rights, MAVEN, Stonehenge, Titanic, Star Wars, fungi, a cat, Lego, Daveigh Chase, James Burrows & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a landscape of mostly-fallen trees caused by the Tunguska event.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 18/06/2026

In TFIr#873: crumping, Kathleen Turner, Garfield, Jaws, Machiavelli, Scapa Flow, Sonic the Hedgehog, Lucrezia Borgia, UFOs, Sean Connery, goblin sharks, octopuses, Mars, fire, La Palma, nuns, Dave Greenslade, Jane Yolen & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the Rainbow Flag

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Film/TV/music archive stats: Films: 8545 (DVD: 4058; Blu-Ray: 212; DVR: 4196; Other: 79). TV: 33384 (DVD: 18949; Blu-Ray: 120; DVR: 9685; Other: 4630). CD albums: 1419; CD singles: 73. MP3s: 13262. iTunes: 12914 tracks (35.1 days' playtime)

Bar chart showing the number of films in the archive by decade - 1900s: 3, 1910s: 11, 1920s: 62, 1930s: 158, 1940s: 295, 1950s: 571, 1960s: 717, 1970s: 755, 1980s: 901, 1990s: 1281, 2000s: 1531, 2010s: 1882, 2020s: 377.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 11/06/2026

In TFIr#872: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Firefox, Magna Carta, the Statue of Liberty, a Tasmanian devil, the ISS, ostraca, Ötzi, Stonehenge, mangroves, fog, mullets, Nessie, Elmo, golf, Marjane Satrapi, Anthony Head & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and Da Vinci's painting The Mona Lisa

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 04/06/2026

In TFIr#871: the Orient Express, D-Day, Jean Harlow, Anthony Bourdain, Julee Cruise, the USS Missouri, Art Nouveau, Maurice Sendak, Dickens, pigeons, Head Over Heels, Facebook, slurry, Peabo Bryson, Marcia Lucas & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and John Everett Millais' painting The Boyhood of Raleigh depicting a man and two children, Walter Raleigh and a friend, sitting by the sea at Budleigh Salterton. The man is pointing out to sea and there is a toy ship on the ground.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 01/06/2026

This Speed Champions Back to the Future DeLorean was a fun one to build. It can be in either wheels-down with cable grabber or wheels-up Mr Fusion flying mode (as here). I have mounted it on a spare Lego aircraft mount. :)

The Lego Speed Champions Delorean time machine car from Back to the Future, in flying configuration on a Lego aircraft mount above other Lego cars and in front of several DVDs including the back to the Future films.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 28/05/2026

In TFIr#870: autobesity, G.K. Chesterton, Pearl Hart, Pepys, whisky, Marilyn Monroe, Vandals, Jewel Staite, Casanova, Puget Sound, VHS, whales, puffins, heat, cheese rolling, walnut whips, Michael Keating, Judith Chalmers & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 21/05/2026

In TFIr#869: goths, accordions, Eurovision, Mai Zetterling, towels, the Glorious 25th, Pepys, the Chrysler Building, Rousay, Atty, a medieval latrine, The Almagast, Doom, rogue Waymos, wine, Jill Curzon, Alan Rothwell & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the art deco spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City against a light blue sky with a little cloud

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 14/05/2026

In TFIr#868: apanthropy, Ronald Lacey, Yvonne Craig, Botticelli, Malta, Toyah, Krakatoa, Cher, Niki Lauda, bees, tea, Bob Hope, a capybara, Archimedes' death ray, Boba Fett, the Euphrates, Mel C, Ted Turner, Koji Suzuki & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and fragment A of the Antikythera mechanism

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 07/05/2026

In TFIr#867: David Attenborough, the Furry Dance, Lena Horne, the Tea Act, Betamax, Douglas Adams, Doris Day, Grumpy Cat, Kellas cats, scorpions, crannogs, Ramses II, the Gates to Hell, Jeeves, Claire Nelson, Peter Dillon & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and Marble Arch in London, designed by John Nash

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 30/04/2026

In TFIr#866: rubatosis, Ayrton Senna, Lily Allen, tuna, spam, Dodie Smith, Greenpeace, Star Wars, L. Frank Baum, da Vinci, Alec Guinness, Mars, Menkaure, Roo, Africa, IKEA, Terry Jones, tiramisu, Nedra Talley, Roger Sweet & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a Star Wars crawl reading "Not very long ago (Thursday* morning, to be honest), in a galaxy really not so far away (this one, actually|)... TH|E FRIDAY IRREGULAR (*Yes, we know it's called the FRIDAY Irregular. It goes out on Thursday because HEY! That's no moon. It's a space station!)"

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 23/04/2026

In TFIr#865: Troy, Daniel Defoe, Ella Fitzgerald, Duane Eddy, Barbie, Magellan, Terry Pratchett, Joan of Arc, Dachau, jazz, cats, toads, lots of bees, Mars, Voyager 1, The Iliad, Lake Arrowhead, Joy Harmon, Andy Kershaw & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a bunch of bananas on top of a stack of old books. Ook!

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 16/04/2026

In TFIr#864: snerdling, Jennifer Garner. Paul Revere, amateur radio, 420, Nessie, tea, Nina Simone, Shakespeare, New Coke, books, owls, comets, Culloden, El Niño, Google, annoyances, Angela Pleasance, Africa Bambaataa & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a glass cup of Earl Grey tea

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 09/04/2026

In TFIr#863: tsundoku, the Titanic, Cerys Matthews, Yuri Gagarin, the Met, Hillsborough, da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, LSD, Waiting for Godot, rhinos, Magawa, Larry the cat, Integrity, The Clangers, red skies, Nick Pope & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the depiction of Halley's Comet from the Bayeux Tapestry

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 02/04/2026

In TFIr#862: phubbing, NATO, Star Trek, Worsdworth, Jennifer Lynch, the Venus de Milo, Rossetti, Margaret Rule, giraffes, Artemis II, the Royal Iris, Napoleon's hat, d'Artagnan, C-3PO, bananas, Mary Rand, James Tolkan & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and daffodils growing in front of trees and a bench

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 26/03/2026

In TFIr#861: rugby, the Terracotta Army, Jennifer Capriati, MC Hammer, Descartes, Charlotte Brontë, edible books, Renée Good, capybaras, the polybos, a sinkhole, Suzi Quatro, sticky tape, Robert Mueller, Valerie Perrine & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a Lancaster bomber

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 19/03/2026

In TFIr#860: cats, Einstein, Pocahontas, Comic Con, The Beatles, Mary Berry, The Great Escape, Tolkien, the Fish Doorbell, Silverpit, Death Valley, garlic, pi, the Razzies & the Oscars, Len Deighton, Jane Lapotaire & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 12/03/2026

In TFIr#859: Rita Tushingham, Pi, Caesar, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Amoco Cadiz, Dick Dale, Queen Latifah, Arthur C. Clarke, blue whales, JUICE, 3I/ATLAS, Jomsborg, CERN, Doom, Jennifer Runyon, Country Joe McDonald & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the Chicago River dyed green for St Patrick's Day (photograph by Scott M. Liebenson, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 05/03/2026

In TFIr#858: Michelangelo, Betty Holberman, Mary Anning, Barbie, VW campervans, the WWW, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, censorship, penguins, an owl, Moai, Wilson, earthquakes, library books, Rob Grant, Annabel Schofield & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and two bananas on top of a stack of old books.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 26/02/2026

In TFIr#857: Ellen Terry, M*A*S*H, Scouse, Nikola Tesla, Dr Seuss, Vivaldi, Teena Marie, the ZX81, exosyzygy, Roman pizza, Nazca, chocolate, lion DNA, the Orkneys, the Louvre, the Olympics, the BAFTAs, Martyn Butler & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a Sinclair ZX81 home computer

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 19/02/2026

In TFIr#856: The Met, Jennifer Love Hewitt, the peace symbol, Pepys, Twin Peaks, Caruso, Katherine Johnson, Marlowe, Fiona, crows, Bob Coveiro, Luna 9, Viagra, Nantucket, Mardi Gras beads, Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the Peace Symbol

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 12/02/2026

In TFIr#855: Glen Coe, radio, the Pale Blue Dot, Galileo, the Maple Leaf, CBBS, Ruth Rendell, Pluto, the Donner Party, a cockerel, a cat flap, Ivarr the Dragon, pizzas, Lake Erie, beer mats, Elizabeth Kelly, Fred Smith & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a red rose covered in dew

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 08/02/2026

For Superbowl Sunday, this is the superb owl, His holiness the right dishonourable professor sir the lord general Hooty OBE BBC ITV C4 Bart, president and poet laureate of Hootistan… (When not in Hootistan he lives with Mum) ;)

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 05/02/2026

In TFIr#854: Pluto, Skylab, Thomas Paine, The Beatles, Sylvia Plath, Dior, Fukushima, Artemis II, a palimpsest, CMEs, a chamber pot, Kerouac, the LHC, seagrass, groundhogs, Malfoy, Batman, John Virgo, Christa Lang & much more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and the dwarf planet Pluto

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 29/01/2026

In TFIr#853: Phil Collins, Lizabeth Scott, The Beatles, Columbia, the Dyatlov Pass, tulips, Peg Entwhistle, highland cattle, alchemy, the Turin Shroud, Robert Burns, a phone thief, Taipei 101, Mark Tully, Gladys West & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and a drawing of the undercroft of the Houses of Parliament in the seventeenth century.

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 27/01/2026

My biological father's family were mid-European Jews and fled the Nazis to England. So many were not so fortunate. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

A large red candle lit for Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 22/01/2026

In TFIr#852: acnestis, Anna Pavlova, Caligula, the Apple Mac, Nellie Bly, Mozart, Lego, The Raven, Edward Lear, Amy Adams, crabs, Artemis 2, spiders on Mars, a cog, a bunker, a hobbit hole, Roger Allers, Marian Diamond & more + Dumbledore & Little Jennifer... www.simonlamont.co.uk/tfir/index.htm

The Friday Irregular and Edward Lear's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat

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Simon Lamont @simonlamont.co.uk · 15/01/2026

When I went out the sky was clear enough to see Orion. About thirty minutes later, this...

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