David Carrington

Musing on the whimsies of life.

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@acambridgediary Fabulous photo !

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@PictureSporting My favourite detail is that he’s wearing a tie!

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@PeteG_cricket @lancs_league Thanks for all your digitisation efforts - some great memory jogging!

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@DavidWooding Eze

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@stephenpollard @HM_Passport HMRC, DVLA & DVLA are equally impressive… online.

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@JohnRentoul Two for the price of one

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@PrestwichSport Very sad news. Happy memories of working with Bob in the old Lancs & Cheshire League days. Lovely bloke.

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@PictureSporting 👏👏👏

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@henrywinter Not certain about Worthing they’re Bury boys, mates of Trippier. Up the Shakers!! https://t.co/wNQeDCo1Gn

[Jools @Jools_Orca]

You won’t see a better act of kindness to a bird for a while.
Look how the kingfisher realised the hand is a helping one and calms down.
@GemLou222 @Jan_Leeming @louisa1000 @LeosAnimalPlan1 @SunnysidePri @CheetahGirl001 @PhaedraXTeddy @FinlayPringle @JulieFa70080734 @Squiffy2

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Yesterday I met survivors of the Kibbutz massacre of Oct 7. I asked a mother, a long time peace advocate, if her views had changed. She said no… the terrorists had taken her friends & family. She would not let them take her humanity.

Today I watched footage of that depravity. What I witnessed was at the very outer limits of the depths to which humankind can occasionally descend.

Then I saw people minimising it here on twitter, excusing it as an inevitable response (as if torturing and burning innocent kids is an impulse these people cannot possibly be expected to resist).

I recalled the images we’ve all seen of heaving crowds of ordinary Gazans crying with joy at the sight of dismembered Jewish women, screaming ‘God is Great’, just as the murderers did when they were killing innocent children (how little they must think of God if they imagine he welcomes this depravity).

I think of the Hamas commanders, sitting in Qatar with their stolen billions demanding that Oct 7 is repeated over and over… of commanders deliberately putting their own innocents in the path of bombs, just for PR.

I think of people in the west demanding that we don’t ‘dehumanize’ Hamas (as if we could dehumanise them more than they do themselves), demanding Israel halt efforts to defeat Hamas, remove its fences (even after seeing what happens when the fences are breached)

Today I saw what ‘from the river to the sea’ means. People can gaslight all they like but they know. We all do. If you can't demand the end of Hamas, you are not interested in peace. It's as simple as that.

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

Twitter do your thing!

[PHILIP BROWN @dudleyplatypus]

Today's the anniversary of my photo book "The Colours of Cricket" being released. Forward written by the legend @StuartBroad8. Over 340 photographs.

Retweet this post before August 11 and you'll go into a draw to win a signed copy.

Link to buy here
https://t.co/i3QjMJcxVT

[David Carrington @JuanFandango]

@JohnRentoul Following the River - hidden away on Exile on Main Street

[Royal Vauxhall Tavern @thervt]

35 years ago at the height of the AIDS crisis, 35 policemen raided The RVT wearing rubber gloves.

Lily Savage was on stage at the time, and she said: ‘Well well, it looks like we’ve got help with the washing up.’

[Margaret Hodge @margarethodge]

At least when Liz Truss was Prime Minister there were fresh vegetables to measure her time in office.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Ladies and Gentlemen: Sir Andy Murray:

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

Sun rays piercing the nave at Ripon Cathedral for #throwbackthursday One of my favourite photographs shot on iPhone - I was harnessed up in the clerestory for this shot.