It's here after the longest labor ever, our first baby. For all those that pre-ordered they're on their way. For those that haven't the stock is dwindling!
happy hoppy birthday to our Bean Queen!
Janet Beveridge Bean was (somewhat recently) born on this day.
take a moment to stare briefly at the sun while contemplating the great good fortune which befall us all on the day this creature fell from that distant glimmering star. happy birthday! cake & champagne & champignons for all my friends!!!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🔥!!! #leveret #NightOfTheLepus #lakemichigan #freecake #happybirthday 👑🍰🥂🍄🌻🌻🌻🌊🍰🍰🍰🔥.... 📸@treeeluver23 i think?
There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine
There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine.
Oh, what were their last thoughts, what were their cries
As the flames overtook them in the Mannington mine.
So don't you believe them, my boy,
That story's a lie.
Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine
Where seventy-eight good men so uselessly died
Oh, don't follow your daddy to the Mannington mine.
How can God forgive you, you do know what you've done.
You've killed my husband, now you want my son. Hazel Dickens words/painting by Jo Clauwaert
Norman Strike - striking miner - Wednesday November 28th, 1984.
Adrian, the Redskins manager, ‘hired’ me as a ‘roadie’ for their gig in Hammersmith Town Hall but it was really a gesture of solidarity because there was no work for me to do. A man has to live.
It was a brilliant gig and the band were on top form in front of 1200 fans. I was really embarrassed, and chuffed, by the number of people who recognised me from ‘The Tube’ but it did give me the chance to have some good discussions, and my collection bucket was really full. The Three Johns were the support band and I really loved their set. Jon Langford is a brilliant guitarist and the guy on vocals is manic. Excellent. I got the chance to speak in front of my biggest audience yet and got a fantastic reception. Good for the ego.
After the gig I collected with some Kent miners and when we counted it up we found we had £210, which was brilliant. Chris told us there were some striking miners from Notts who were worse off than us so I halved my share with them because the Kent miners refused point blank to give them anything! They disgusted me to be honest because there are fewer miners in Kent than at Westoe alone, and they have really milked the support from London. So much for solidarity!
A Freakon hand holds the pen of Alexander Cordell the extraordinary novelist who wrote The Rape of the Fair Country about the hardship of life in the Gwent Valleys and the great Chartist uprising of Colliers and Iron workers in Freakon Jon’s hometown of Newport South Wales in 1838…
