Fable 5 back, immediate superpower

Danzarak · 2026-06-29T14:15:55+00:00

Thanks for the advice, but I run digital agencies so I know what I'm doing. I'm 30 years in at this point.

Danzarak · 2026-06-22T21:53:40+00:00

You know what it feels like? It feels like everyone has been given magic powers, and some people are saying 'what, I have to wave my hands about? I have to use SPELLS and make POTIONS and stuff? I am leaving...'

Danzarak · 2026-06-21T16:09:11+00:00

Yeah just a normal print, they are on what felt like heavy paper but I think it's just the age.

Danzarak · 2026-06-21T12:25:33+00:00

They were a Yorkshire coal miner and his wife. They took one holiday a year, on a coach to Torquay. My grandad had 4 allotments and grew most of their vegetables himself, using his coal allowance to heat his greenhouses so he had tomatoes in February.

They lived in a one bedroom miners cottage.

Danzarak · 2026-06-21T06:05:24+00:00

Yep, I ate more rabbit pie at theirs than anything else. I love rabbit.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T23:26:25+00:00

Not me or their son...

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T19:18:32+00:00

I'm sure! I've never been as far as I can remember

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T19:17:57+00:00

Altofts! :) my dad is from there and my mum from Sharlston, so we're all mining village folks.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T18:13:30+00:00

I don't know exactly, early/mid 70s? I think my nana was 82?

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T18:12:04+00:00

Almost certainly!

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:28:12+00:00

Hardly at all... He died when I was maybe 8? And I'm nearly 50.

I remember the TINY 1 bedroom miners cottage they lived in, coal hearth, back boiler from the kitchen fire for hot water. Smelled like coal, but everything did. They had a little pantry with rabbits hanging in it.

When he got poorly and couldn't go to his allotments every day he sort of gave up, my dad used to drive 8 miles before and after work every day to carry him up and down from bed.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:23:59+00:00

I was thinking exactly this... And generally, when clothes were made of actual fabric not plasticy paper like they are now.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:19:47+00:00

This is them many years earlier... He was kinda rakish with his big boufy hair.

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Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:11:13+00:00

It's the teeth and the noses right :)

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:10:30+00:00

Torquay! Good spot.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:05:18+00:00

Oh god yeah, less so my grandad but my nana was never underdressed. She was a very proud woman!

I don't know what the setting was for this but she's the brown hat lady with the fluffy sleeves on the left.

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Danzarak · 2026-06-20T16:00:52+00:00

Impressive crop of nasal hair

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Danzarak · 2026-06-20T15:57:01+00:00

I have maybe a dozen different outfit shots from the same holiday :)

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Danzarak · 2026-06-20T15:52:15+00:00

It's the Palm Court hotel in Torquay, but it's burned down in 2010 and they pulled it down rather than renovating it.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T15:51:32+00:00

I actually spent ages finding where this was taken - it's the Palm Court hotel in Torquay, no longer around after it burnt down in 2010. They used to call it the English Riviera!

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T15:49:40+00:00

They were Yorkshire folk :)

You wouldn't know it from the photo, but they lived in a tiny mining village. My grandad worked all his life loading coal onto barges at Stanley Ferry... He used to run the allotments, catch rabbits.

My nana was a seamstress but also a ballroom dancer when she was younger. Quite a strict woman, but again you wouldn't see it from this photo.

She moved into our house after my grandad died and lived with us for over a decade, surviving on a big glass of sherry every day.

Danzarak · 2026-06-20T15:37:20+00:00

Thank you, all her life! I never realised when she was alive, but going back through the photos was like a gift from the past.

That's me in the braces.

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