The Great Outdoors

I googled Penny Farthing's and there was one that cost £1500. All that money to **** up your back

 

People think you must be starved of nature living ion a city, but if you know where to look there's loads. Used to visit my mate in Tottenham, which is a ****hole by any standards, but within 10 minutes you're on the Lea towpath watching swans drifting on the river, and looking out for herons and cormorants.

 

There was a documentary I watched about the absolute preponderance of green spaces in London. You're right people naturally assume that cities are just concrete and steel. I knew London had lots of green areas but I didn't realise just how much.

Aberdeen has some fantastic examples. Hazlehead Park in particular is quite stunning. Duthie Park as well but there are numerous areas of green spaces to indulge oneself.

 

Get one of these and you can do 2 beneficial things in 1 go.

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* heroin

 

I remember that one well. I used to buy Viz avidly from about 1981 up to the mid 2000's. The last one I bought was a couple of years ago but it was dreadful, run out of ideas.

Brown Bottle was always one of my favourites and recently Archers reminded me of his nemesis "Cider Woman" which tickled my fancy recalling their exploits

 

Glasgow means “ dear green place” but I never found it to be excessively expensive to be honest.

 

I remember a one off "Doctor Poo" frantically travelling through time to find a free lavatory as he was desperate for a dump. Eventually he found one and when he came out Davros was patiently waiting to get in and the Doctor said "I'd give that 10 minutes if I were you Davros"

Sadly the strip is not on the Viz website.

 

Millie Tant ,Modern Parents and Roger Mellie some of my favourites.

 

What do you call a woodpecker with no beak?

A head banger hahahaha pmsl

 

Handy for dogging too, of course

 

My Nits Hell - by Brian May

 

Cars of the Stars - will they pass their MOT?

 

I like how they put "out of Queen" in parentheses. What a wake up call for poor old Brian

 

Modern Parents is from whence I applied the moniker "Tarquin" to ST.

 

My orange zester was a real bargain ... second only to my gammon baster which, perhaps, I've overused

 

I love the outdoors, I'm sitting in the garden now with my morning coffee watching the dog chasing squirrels about.

Good walks for me and the dog are all over Northumberland, the lake district and we've done a bit of the west coast of Scotland. I was hoping to take her on the Hadrian's wall walk but she's too old for that now but every day she's up and down the hills in the countryside around Durham.

 

The Lake District is beautiful.

The Highlands are stunning.

There are so many wonderful regions in the UK.

 

would you like to see my nether regions?