Julian Allen

@upthepath.bsky.social

Photographer. Images from up the path.

True toughness is quiet and comes deep from within. It’s about making the right choice under stress, uncertainty and fatigue. It requires emotional control: cultivating the power to respond—not react—and thus making thoughtful, deliberate decisions during pressure-filled situations.

There are a lot of tips and tricks that can help our mental health. But after researching and writing about this for years, the best advice I can give is: Do real things in the real world with real people, occasionally hard, sometimes alone.

I've discovered THE best hobby. Just pick a town, join all its local Facebook groups. Then drive there one night with a job lot of gnomes and drop them on a few doorsteps. Then sit back and watch the fireworks.

Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.

Ways to live healthier and longer that are backed by actual evidence: 1. Exercise: Most days a week= conversational. Occasionally intense 2. Strength train 3. Eat mostly real foods 4. Cultivate genuine relationships 5. Sleep 7+ hours 6. Don't smoke 7. Have ways to cope with stress

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Astonishing admission from Greater Manchester Police today that they failed to examine Jihad al-Shamie's phones after arresting him in February and September last year If they had looked, they would have found evidence of him planning a terror attack before he struck the Heaton Park synagogue

Sir Ed Davey at PMQs: “can I also pick up a remark from the opposition about the by-election we're about to see in Clacton. I have to tell her I cannot back joke figures with ridiculous policies, which is why I'm supporting Count Binface”

“When you’re bathing in a sea of radicalisation and extremity, stuff like that starts to slip out of your mouth.” Lewis Goodall says Rupert Lowe should apologise for his ‘insulting’ comments about the Dunblane massacre

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

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