Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: what does the E & R stand for on the mailbag? I think I've seen it on other British postal type things

ah, it’s a Royal thing; the Royal Mail uses ER at the moment, as it stands for Elizabeth Regina (Regina = Queen), but it changes with the monarch, so when it was queen Victoria it was VR, and when it was king Edward it was ER as well, but that stood for Edwardus Rex (King). If you snoop around the UK you can find old postboxes with different initials on them, which gives you a clue as to when that particular postbox was made!

gatiss:

lastofthetimeladies:

breakfastatbequiettiffany:

bawbag:

In primary school when you and your friend would pretend to sharpen your pencils to have a chat at the bin

This is the most UK-centric sentence I’ve ever seen written

In primary school when you and your mate would pretend to sharpen your woody pointy writer-downers to have a jolly good chin wag at the bin

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