Claire Hart 🏳️‍🌈 💙🌈🐝

@retrofootballnw Like a big warm hug 🥰 Reminds me of getting all nice & warm on the back seat of our B reg Ford Sierra, whilst my Dad drove the way through the Wolverhampton traffic on our return home to Shropshire after being to Molineux. I didn’t know the SR music was called Out of the Blue!

On this day in 1988. This is wonderful. As they celebrated their 40th birthday, the start of Sports Report was shown live during Grandstand. The music. Peter Jones. James Alexander Gordon. Magic.

@80s_Kidz We still have, where I work.

Who had Christmas decorations like this?

@JamesAHogg2 Thank you for that ☺️

It’s a well known fact that a bit of classic slapstick from Series Two of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer is the best antidote to crap weather blues known to man... Good evening.

@BestOfUKComedy I’m still catching up with the rest of you all, I’m two years behind as our rural Shropshire TV transmitter didn’t broadcast Channel 4 until 1984! 🤣

As Channel 4 celebrates its 43rd birthday today, my question to you is when you see this 4, what programme from the era does it remind you the most of?

@danny_robins @The_Lowry @uncannypodlive @ciaranokeeffe @_EvelynHollow We had a fabulous night, thank you too all involved! My daughter is my Uncanny Buddy and it was her first show…she left with some merch too! ☺️ Happy birthday for tomorrow! 🥳

Haunting #4 of the tour! 😱 Our last night @The_Lowry in Salford (though we are coming back there in Feb if you want to see us there!) Now we head on to Nottingham, a day off on Monday (my birthday) and then Northampton, Oxford, Southend and Brighton next week!! Plenty more haunting to do! 👻👻👻 #hauntedselfie #uncanny #uncannycommunity #UncannyFearOfTheDark

We’ve had an absolutely marvellous time tonight seeing @LastLaughPlay 👏🏻 Get to see it if you can! Wahey! 👓

@braintumourrsch We lost our Dad to glioblastoma in 1992, he only lived for 9 months post-diagnosis. I’m deeply disappointed to read that there have been no new treatment options in 20+ years 😔

Glioblastoma Fast Facts What is glioblastoma? The brutal truth ⬇️ ⚠️ Around 3,200 people are diagnosed every year in the UK ⚠️ Just 160 of them will survive five years or more ⚠️ Glioblastoma accounts for 1 in 3 brain tumour diagnoses ⚠️ Average survival is just 12–18 months ⚠️ No new treatment options in 20+ years This is unacceptable. That’s why we’re fighting for greater investment in research. Help us fund the future. 💛 Donate here: bit.ly/46GJLAO #GlioblastomaAwareness #BrainTumoursKill #TogetherWeWillFindACure #Glioblastoma

@MrTimDunn @tfwrail @_DiningCar Stokesay Castle seen from the train…sublime! Welsh Marches, my old stomping ground.

Oh. My. God. This is the greatest cooked breakfast that I have ever had aboard a train. I am zipping through Wales in the @tfwrail Dining Car, and THIS is breakfast between Cardiff and Manchester. Bacon & eggs & sausages (two), all the rest, plus my choice of toast, and jam on the side. The scenery is spectacular, the seats are superb, the staff are cheery and this food was just £12.50: the first class ticket was only about £7 more than standard Advance. It’s made me so bloody happy on my way to this weekend’s @TalyllynRailway #AwdryExtravaganza that I’ve eaten the black pudding, and I don’t normally touch the stuff. Hot food from the kitchen (like bacon baps) is available to all on the train, too, btw. There are 5 return trips of this train between Cardiff and Manchester each day, plus ones to/from Cardiff/Holyhead – calling at places like Abergavenny, Hereford and Shrewsbury. The Dining Car isn’t guaranteed but it does seem to be “on” far more than it used to be when I last did a trip about 10 years ago – so I do now very much commend it to you. Honestly, THIS is what train travel catering *can* and *should* be like in modern European nations like ours, and if you get Adam and Alex D as your dining car crew and chef then that’ll be a bonus too. Nice one Transport for Wales @transport_wales team – I’m looking forward to trying lunch on the way back next week. This has put me in an outstandingly good mood. Cheers to all the staff who work this service. Diolch!

@TopDeckAV I was earning nothing as I was at primary school at the time! 🤣 My parents were good at saving! 😊

@cl_hart £225!!! Jeez! Can you remember how much you were earning?

The 13/07/85 was a momentous day! On another note, we also collected our first ever microwave! Mind was blown! 🤯 🤣#LiveAid40 #LiveAid

@CbwDave 🤣

@cl_hart Did Dire Straits move it for you ?

@rozlaws I can’t believe how much it was…Mum had returned to work so I think that’s how we ended up getting/paying for it.

Look at the price! £225 was a fortune then, you could buy a car for that! I don't think I got a microwave for about another 10 years. Mind you, it's still working. #theydontmakethingsliketheyusedto #liveaidat40

@MischaLore Their flexible friend! Indeed it was one of those push-pull things! I was still using those in the mid 90s when I worked in a Blockbuster Video store!

@cl_hart Wow, and paid by credit card, was the receipt done with one of those push-pull hand things

@scottygb It was such an amazing day…we also collected our first ever microwave from our nearest MEB shop! ☺️

BBC Two is showing Live Aid, seven hours of it, from 6pm to 1am this Saturday night.

@almurray Done 👍🏻 #SplashZone 💦🍺🍷🤣

Time to play some proper music… ✌️ Sign up to my mailing list via the link below for first access to tickets to my brand new tour! 🎟️: thepublandlord.com/mailing-list

@DuncanNewmarch Missing him…still…33 years for me this year 🫶🏻

A difficult line for me to read this year. Hope you're with your dad or have spoken to him.

@ResidentAlien Meanwhile…in the UK 🇬🇧 🤣

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!

@AdamRichman 🫶🏻

Quick update: A lot of people have reached out after my most recent post this morning. I’m home from the surgery and so grateful for all of the messages of care and concern. Two operations in six weeks is pretty gnarly, but fortunately I’m on the other side of it. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery, but I get to wake up at home and that is a miracle and a blessing.

Blur - The Singles Tour 04.12.1999 Newport Centre #Blur #Britpop #BritpopMemories #thepast #endofacentury