Ralph Darvill
@tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Self-employed Painter and Decorator.
Music lover, photographer, hockey player, beer drinker, birder, windmill-hopper.
Father, husband & general mischief-maker.
Let's take more care of each other, & our planet.
Tring Hockey Club, Watford Football Club.
Music lover, photographer, hockey player, beer drinker, birder, windmill-hopper.
Father, husband & general mischief-maker.
Let's take more care of each other, & our planet.
Tring Hockey Club, Watford Football Club.
The Dotard is the stupidest man alive, apart from those who voted for him, and those that do his bidding without questioning.
It is exhausting watching his stone age policy decisions just when his country (Russia?), the world, and the planet need broadly beneficial acts instead of vandalism.
It is exhausting watching his stone age policy decisions just when his country (Russia?), the world, and the planet need broadly beneficial acts instead of vandalism.
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Dotard is the stupidest man alive, apart from those who voted for him, and those that do his bidding without questioning.
It is exhausting watching his stone age policy decisions just when his country (Russia?), the world, and the planet need broadly beneficial acts instead of vandalism.
It is exhausting watching his stone age policy decisions just when his country (Russia?), the world, and the planet need broadly beneficial acts instead of vandalism.
But the theory was that Unemp't up Inflation down.
But I think the 80s was the beginning of "Stagflation" when both rose. Much to the consternation of everyone concerned.
But I think the 80s was the beginning of "Stagflation" when both rose. Much to the consternation of everyone concerned.
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
But the theory was that Unemp't up Inflation down.
But I think the 80s was the beginning of "Stagflation" when both rose. Much to the consternation of everyone concerned.
But I think the 80s was the beginning of "Stagflation" when both rose. Much to the consternation of everyone concerned.
Are we back to the Economics I was taught in the 80s?
Unemployment up, inflation down.
Unemployment up, inflation down.
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Are we back to the Economics I was taught in the 80s?
Unemployment up, inflation down.
Unemployment up, inflation down.
It's a positive for many voters in the UK unfortunately.
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
It's a positive for many voters in the UK unfortunately.
Yep, droughts, wildfires, flooding, hurricanes...that's the sort of age you fucking idiot Dotard.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Yep, droughts, wildfires, flooding, hurricanes...that's the sort of age you fucking idiot Dotard.
It's a pleasure, I own a lot of guides!
Some of them are years in the making, so possibly not!
Some of them are years in the making, so possibly not!
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It's a pleasure, I own a lot of guides!
Some of them are years in the making, so possibly not!
Some of them are years in the making, so possibly not!
I read the other day that it's a technique used where the turbines are sited on major bird migration routes. It's deemed unnecessary where they are sited in other places where not such an issue.
Nice photo of Great Haseley mill BTW.
Nice photo of Great Haseley mill BTW.
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I read the other day that it's a technique used where the turbines are sited on major bird migration routes. It's deemed unnecessary where they are sited in other places where not such an issue.
Nice photo of Great Haseley mill BTW.
Nice photo of Great Haseley mill BTW.
That's a stunning piece of drawing.
Do you get requests for illustrating guidebooks?
Right up there with the best.
Do you get requests for illustrating guidebooks?
Right up there with the best.
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
That's a stunning piece of drawing.
Do you get requests for illustrating guidebooks?
Right up there with the best.
Do you get requests for illustrating guidebooks?
Right up there with the best.
There's a lot of reading to be done there! Thanks Andrew.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
There's a lot of reading to be done there! Thanks Andrew.
Either that or Glenlivet. Stopped drinking it a few years back, so no bottles to reference!
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Either that or Glenlivet. Stopped drinking it a few years back, so no bottles to reference!
There are just too few independent leisure facilities around, there's a small bowling alley near us in Aylesbury, thankfully seems to do OK.
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
There are just too few independent leisure facilities around, there's a small bowling alley near us in Aylesbury, thankfully seems to do OK.
They just want to be able to point to the "winningness" of their "party".
And the lazy amongst us don't fact check what's going on.
And the lazy amongst us don't fact check what's going on.
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
They just want to be able to point to the "winningness" of their "party".
And the lazy amongst us don't fact check what's going on.
And the lazy amongst us don't fact check what's going on.
Was our Allan a whisky afficionado?
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Was our Allan a whisky afficionado?
Stephen Donaldson's books were innthe same vein I always felt, a bit of religion in the background of a story of magic and elvish creatures.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Stephen Donaldson's books were innthe same vein I always felt, a bit of religion in the background of a story of magic and elvish creatures.
Do the poor folks who have to stand behind The Dotard have to pass a "straight face" test prior to selection?
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Do the poor folks who have to stand behind The Dotard have to pass a "straight face" test prior to selection?
"DEPTHS" FFS.
Edit button soon please.
Edit button soon please.
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"DEPTHS" FFS.
Edit button soon please.
Edit button soon please.
I cannot laugh enough about the two racist treacherous grifters are going to year lumps out of each other.
Bring.It.On
Bring.It.On
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I cannot laugh enough about the two racist treacherous grifters are going to year lumps out of each other.
Bring.It.On
Bring.It.On
There are some disgusting people in this country.
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There are some disgusting people in this country.
She's such a supercilious cow isn't she? Since leaving Twitter a year ago I hadn't even given her a thought. She still has a programme...unbelievable.
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
She's such a supercilious cow isn't she? Since leaving Twitter a year ago I hadn't even given her a thought. She still has a programme...unbelievable.
Same here. Two Robins, one uttering splinters of song unseen in a bush, and the other flitting around a tree under the street light. Sun wouldn't be up for another hour or so.
#FirstBirdOfMyDay
#FirstBirdOfMyDay
December 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Same here. Two Robins, one uttering splinters of song unseen in a bush, and the other flitting around a tree under the street light. Sun wouldn't be up for another hour or so.
#FirstBirdOfMyDay
#FirstBirdOfMyDay