Mark Brown

@markoneinfour.bsky.social

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Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch (he/they)

The cover of an early 2000s Flamingo edition of The Atroxity Exhibition. A spine on a field of white, an inset of a crashed car
The cover of little creatures by taking heads. It is in untutored art style with many little bits of text across it of a religious nature the members of talking heads are mostly hidden behind mountains with faces on them, except Chris who is behind a church and David who holds up a globe dressed only in underpants. The landscape is filled with little people and animals and ornate temples and more plain churches. In the distance, beyond the mountains little people go about their business. Above are clouds with smiles and a few UFOs
Some children in dufflcoats with sports bags enter the grates of Canning Street primary school, a Victorian red brick school. In the distance you can see the last remaining back to back of the Benwell slum. Clearance of the 1970s.
A screen grab of a search result showing a Kevin O'Neill illustration of Tomas de Torquemada from 2000ad comic's Nemesis the Warlock. He is holding a finger up saying 'be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!' he is wearing a helmet that is triangle shaped that covers his entire face.
SOME THOUGHTS ON FIRE-SCREENS by TREVOR HOLLOWAY THERE are few sights more cheer-ing in winter than a well-filled grate of glowing wood or coals; but how depressing an empty, un-screened fireplace looks in time! In their off-duty periods, fireplaces usually have a forlorn and unlovely appearance. No self-respecting handy-man should tolerate such a dismal state of affairs, so let's get busy and see if we can't find some way of screening these gloomy cavities. Fire-screens are quite simple to make, and the scope for varied design is almost limitless. In case you may need a little inspiration, here are a few suggested designs among which you may see one that takes your fancy. In these days when "do-it-yourself" methods are so popular a wide range of materials is available in
The title page of Dean's Premier Book For Boys. CONTENTS THE BRINTON BUNCH FLYING SAUCER A BIT OF HOUSE DECORATION EXPEDITION TWENTY SOAP SPRINGS ETERNAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE COLLECTING CIRCUSANA SOME THOUGHTS ON FIRE-SCREENS KIT OF THE JUNGLE TRAIL OUT OF BOUNDS THE BOYS OF THE BAR-X OUR WINTER VISITORS "BELL" PUZZLE A WIND ROARER THE SILVER STAR GARRY AND THE WRONG HORSE LOOKING AT CASTLES OBLONG MAKING ADVENTURE IN THE PYRENEES RAY'S SHORT CUT MUTINY ON THE Discovery A MINIATURE TREE THE UNEXPECTED HORSESHOES FOR LUCK THE KILLER DOG MY LINE OF BUSINESS
The cover of Dwand's premier book for boys featuring in order: some native Americans pointing at a stage coach, some lads running and race and some race cars absolutely belting over what looks like a hump back bridge
The famous meme of a woman looking on aghast as a man (implicitly her partner) looking over his shoulder at a passing woman indicating a thirsty, horny aspect while looking at her rear. The woman is labeled with the text 'reform', the scopophilic gentleman 'bbc coverage' and the appalled woman labelled 'anything else'
The opening titles tv programme twin peaks (two misty mountains in the background, a road and desk trees with a sign welcoming visitors to the town) with text overlaid in the style of the original titles saying 'Gorton and Denton and Iran'
The famous gif of Steve buscemi dressed in a backwards baseball cap and teenage style clothes carrying two skateboards saying 'How do you do, fellow kids?' to some young people
The homepage of Barking and Dagenham Star, with headlines about council finances, beavers and wild storks rewilding Dagenham, boosts for the boroughs shopping areas
The front page of the times, Saturday 24th January 2026. Main headline 'anxiety' to cause a lost generation on benefits'
A lava lamp in a window, darkness outside
A game of heroquest in progress.
Two photos on a book page. The top one is is of somewhere wearing a school satchel holding a lollipop and showing stocking tops and suspenders. The bottom is Lemmy from Motorhead surrounded by women not of school age dressed as school girls, all showing stocking tops.
Very popular amongst City gents is School Dinners, the central London restaurant. Here waitresses dressed like schoolgirls except for their black tights dole out school meals. In the background, a mock schoolmaster in gown and mortarboard flexes a cane. Customers are sent into the corner wearing a dunce's cap, and may be forced to do lines. This restaurant is often full. What a feast misty-eyed old boys are in for, as they scramble into the cellar restaurant whose walls are crammed with school photos, story book covers and other such tributes to the school classroom. As you sit down at the table to order, for example, Matron's Secret Recipe and St. Trinian's Choice, service is provided by delightful young waitresses with striped ties, tight grey pleated skirts, half-cocked boaters and lacrosse sticks, who attend to every (reasonable) whim. They will even rebuke customers for sneaking, or for bad table manners. In the true school spirit PeePee the little black waiter dressed like a schoolboy, passes amongst the tables causing merriment. The menu consists of nostalgic dishes such as apple crumble, spotty dick and all those old school favourites, only this time marvellously cooked and extremely appetising. Meanwhile the waitresses lean over the table suggestively, and crack naughty jokes. But the real fun starts with a 'Headmaster's caning'. The hapless victim, usually a birthday boy or bridegroom-to-be on his stag night, is hauled before the 'Headmaster' - School Dinners' general manager in a mortar board and gown. He is bent over and given a mock caning by two 'schoolgirl' waitresses, while the Headmaster beats a gong to accompany every stroke. The caning last long and appears hard. The diners ex-public school City people, and, increasingly others, are in a seventh heaven! What a delicious trip down memory lane this is! Of course, it is fun, not real perversion, and many business deals are swung in this atmosphere.
Graffiti on a building reading 'Royal Nonce' below graffiti reading 'ACAB!', urban traffic in foreground.
A huge radio mast behind barbed wire
A devil's coach horse beetle, long and black with strong pincers, looking sorry for itself trapped in the bottom of an empty mug
A hillside path, a fence, all obscured by rain and mist
The covid memorial wall opposite the houses of Parliament. Thousands and thousands of red hearts painted onto a wall stretching into the distance.
A half tin of Foresight Pease Pudding, with seventies style serving suggestions like 'put it on a cracker with a bit veg or a prawn on top' or put it on a plate with lots of artfully arrangesld slices of tomato and sprigs of parsley. And very seventies fonts.
An empty dirty coloured sky above a 1940s prefab.
A shelf of big silly books like 'folklore myths and legends of Britain', 'Britain in the seventies', 'man watching' by Desmond Morris, 'papercraft' and 'the body's disorders'
The cover of steeleye span's LP 'All Around My Hat' with sticker saying 'includes their hit single' All Around My Hat'
With the only proof of Jeremy's lyrical contribution (the words, "ATOL Protected, ATOL Protected") being that they were written on a an old airline ticket of Mark's as the two of them traveled, Jeremy fought for his right to be remunerated fairly. Initially Hans balked at the idea of crediting Jeremy, stating that the net had "run out of space" and the internet didn't "have enough bytes to add his name." But thanks to Molly's intervention (despite her dislike for Jeremy) the credit was changed, and all was settled in short order at a child's play center.
A page from Take a Break magazine with the headline 'It's time to talk about class...' and the stand first 'research shows that people from lower socio-economic backgrounds face discrimination in education and in the work force. Here's why we need to change the law to talk about social mobility'
The now sadly empty wrapper of a 'double layer liquorice' Tulpa bar manufactured by Cloetta.
Two large radio antenna surrounded by barbed wire fences against a blue sky
A small free standing doll dressed as a chef but with a fully feathered owls head.
A copy of Sade' album Diamond Life with Sade spelled out phonetically on the spine (SHAR-DAY).
Some bell tents in the darkness with the last remains of sunset behind them
Our Wullie (a young lad with spiky hair) is accompanying his friend Bob into a Internet cafe in a black and white comic panel. Wullie is saying 'sheesh! What lives in here? Moles? I'd rather be oot in the subshine'. Bob is answering 'welcome to the superinformation highway'. In the foreground, a kid in hat is typing on a computer keyboard with the monitor showing a Microsoft logo and the word 'Windaes'
A cardboard box the width of an entire front garden of a terraced housezteice as high as the normal height garden wall it is standing behind.
A person hugs a lifelike monkey doll with a head band. Text: 14 inches (35.5 cm) in length. This doll is not a toy, but a fine collectable. Not intended for children under 14. Against your shoulder, she fusses then calms You'll love her sweet monkey sounds! Straight from the jungle and into your arms this life like monkey baby doll has a lot tell you. Monkeys express their emotions of hunger, happiness, sadness, contentment, and poseable monkey doll from Ashton-Drake, is ready to share her sounds when you snuggle her! She sound
The silhouette of a circus performer ready to hang from a trapeze is protected onto the roof of a circus big top above an illuminated sign reading Zippo's. Crew hold ropes taut ready for a trick, framed by a set of red curtains.
Are there BULLIES in heaven? Q My supervisor - who was charming to everyone else -bullied me for years. I had to quit my supermarket job, which I otherwise enjoyed, because she wrecked my confidence. I've since heard she's been cruel to everyone in that post, before me and since. Would I have to face someone so nasty on the other side, and if so, could I give her a piece of my mind? Faye, 58, Kent A I'd love to tell you that you'd be able to give her a piece of your mind in the next life, but it is in this world we have to face up to such bullies. The spirit world is a much higher state of being, and domination or cruelty to others simply can't take place. I get a sense that your former boss was angry because you seemed happy and she wasn't. I want you to recall how you felt on your best days in that job and bring those feelings back. The bully may have caused you to lose your confidence in that job, but not in life. The lesson here is to be you at your best and feel sorry for the bullies, because they are usually very afraid of other people's happiness. Photo: an angry person in a business suit points at the camera
A fox stares expectantly up at the camera in a photo taken through a window
A fox with slight mange looks directly at the camera in a twilight garden
A copy of 'in search of space' by Hawkwind and a copy of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World on a carpet
A short video of a front gate. Hopefully you can hear all the birds.
The cover of Section 25's From the hip album. Coloured poles stand along a ridge of what looks like a Cumbria fell, stretching up the hillside and into the mist
A frame from a comic. Two figures walk along a beach below white cliffs with a dark pastel sky. The colours are muted.
A copy of Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain, with horned figure on the cover
A lego depiction of Katy Manning's infamous naked photo shoot with a dalek
The cover of 'magpie: 20 junkshop pop ads and themes' with a seventies style illustration of cars, tellys, space hoppers, chopper bikes'
A community centre with an oasthouse style roof in front of tall tower blocks on the pepys estate in Deptford
An advert for a cagoule with the headline 'it's cold in them thar hills' with a very serious look young man with a beard
A hand holding the cd inlay of 23 great recordings by Jonathan richman and the modern lovers
A heron stalks a shallow urban river bed at night
In 1972, the ferret-legging record stood at 40 seconds.[18] A few years later, the record had risen to over one minute,[18] and eventually to 90 minutes. In 1977, Edward Simpkins from the Isle of Wight set the new world record of five hours and ten minutes, although he only had one ferret in his trousers during the first four hours and two for the last seventy minutes. Simpkins sustained two large bites during his record-breaking attempt, but continued to play a game of darts undeterred.[19]
A tarmac path across a crematorium garden with two shrubs erupting from its middle
A scuff cornered paperback of Ramsey Campbell's Incarnate, with gold embossed horror novel writing and a main photo of a distended face
Two large radio masts behind a chain-link fence at sunset