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Mark Oldham

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Dad, Husband, Football Coach, Chairman of the mighty Brinscall Juniors, Trackday Rider, Lawnmower Racer.

Chorley via Denton
Joined July 2010
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Our house right now! Dog logic at its finest!!
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4 years
H vs “The Stepping Stones!”
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Mark Oldham
5 years
One small piece of joy coming from this week has been the opportunity to be a foster parent to one of David’s dogs. This is H with Foxy or as they shall henceforth be known the Fox and the Hound 😊 xx @RevRichardColes @RevDavidColes
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Mark Oldham
3 years
Apart from the massive head and wings, I’ll also be wearing this in memory of @RevDavidColes
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Mark Oldham
3 years
Also in 2012 David gave me an apple tree, we’ve still never had an apple grow from it but this year looks like our year 😊 @RevDavidColes @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
3 years
On what would have been @RevDavidColes ’ 45th birthday, this is how I remember him, happy and with dog in hand 🙂
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Mark Oldham
2 years
Look who’s arrived with matching dickie 🐶
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Mark Oldham
4 years
So yesterday at Parent School Ned learned up-cycling and carpentry skills, he even had a go with the electric screwdriver! Here’s our new bug hotel, now in situ next to @RevDavidColes apple tree 😊
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Mark Oldham
4 years
I see H has finally made it in to the Beano 🤣 @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
4 years
My 3 word review for @RevRichardColes new book Heartbreakingly beautiful memoir 💔
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Thanks to @RevRichardColes I now have fulfilled a life long ambition to have my own catchphrase: “Too Manc for Yank” 🤣
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Mark Oldham
5 years
#roadtrip H is off for a visit with Willy and Daisy @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
For those who have been enquiring about Aud, she’s still portly, loves a treat and has settled in veryy nicely indeed 😍
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Mark Oldham
2 years
WINNERS!!! 🏆🏆🏆
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Richard Coles
2 years
My brother in law @mancunianmark is at Wembley with the lionesses of @BrinscallGirls
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Mark Oldham
1 year
Happy belated birthday to my girlfriend, Daisy. 14 yesterday 😘
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5 years
So @RevRichardColes , I spend a fortune on an enclosed bed for H and he chooses to sleep here instead! #bestfriends #foxandhound
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Just having a quick brew before recommencing demolition, skip filling and pyrotechnics duties 😊
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2 years
@RevRichardColes H, 7 years on, looking dapper!!
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Mark Oldham
4 years
I’ve decided that the common garden dachshund is the most difficult of all breeds. Here you see Daisy not fetching a frisbee I have thrown and getting very upset with me because I won’t fetch it myself to throw again.... and repeat!!
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Mark Oldham
3 years
Made it - thanks for all your support everyone. Had an amazing day 🥰
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Mark Oldham
3 years
Spent last evening with my gf Daisy at @RevRichardColes gaff. She was good enough to clean all the cocoa butter from my arm 🐶
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3 years
We did it! Fantastic victory in the cup final today. So proud of them all 🥰
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3 years
CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆
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2 years
Didn’t take these two very long to get reacquainted @RevRichardColes
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4 years
@RevRichardColes I’m a social media fan most of the time but find it disgusting the way people in the public eye constantly have to explain themselves to the trolls. My staying here over the past few weeks and going forwards at this difficult time of our year shouldn’t need any justification!
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4 years
Ned’s first day of big school - he’s now grown up and would like to be known as Edward 😊
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4 years
@Jenric22 a quick message for you to pass onto Lucy before H comes to stay @RevRichardColes
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5 years
Family visit for the sausages #mad dog lady
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Mark Oldham
5 years
When little legs just don’t cut it!!
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Mark Oldham
4 years
It’s our ‘H’aversary today. 1 year with this menace 🤣
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Mark Oldham
5 years
Why is it that I find massaging H’s ears rather therapeutic. It sends him to sleep so I guess it’s quite mutual 😊
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5 years
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5 years
H is very content after his first big walk in the North 😊
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Mark Oldham
4 years
The local meerkat stands on full guard as next door has a skip delivered #noseysausage 🤣
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5 years
So H lost 2 stones today and is now feeling sorry for himself. Still a bit spaced out from all the drugs though. Poor little man 🤕 @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
This morning he was sleeping sat up, he’s now graduated to sleeping like a parrot 🦜
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Mark Oldham
5 years
Looks to me like the balance of power has shifted - poor Foxy!! #foxandhound
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5 years
Tonight’s scene of household bliss. The longer he stays, the more comfortable he becomes.
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5 years
First night has been smashed! Now onto breakfast #thefoxandhound @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
So finally got around to getting my new ink in memory of R Kid. The Gruffalo meets the Princess and the Pea. If you know, you know 💙 @RevRichardColes @RevDavidColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
H now thinks he’s a Fox Red Labrador and has the knitwear to prove it 🤣
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5 years
@RevRichardColes this was the scene as we left for the steam locomotive
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Good luck with the launch today @RevRichardColes Available now!
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Richard Coles
4 years
In the secular calendar it’s a day for fools, in the church calendar, for foot care. For me, it’s publication day.
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2 years
R Kid would have been 46 today, so no morbid posts, just happy memories and Double Denim 🥲
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5 years
H is finding self-isolation rather agreeable #foxandhound 🦊🐶
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5 years
So today I’m working from home, H seems quite happy with this arrangement 🤣
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Just heading to work at this time on a Saturday after half a year of Covid restricted job hunting. Pride and self-esteem has now returned, be happy to see the back of 2020. Stay safe everyone 😘
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Old dog - new tricks. H will wait for his dinner under duress, no other tricks are available with this model!!
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4 years
Anyone seen Daisy? @RevRichardColes
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5 years
Tonight’s position looks a bit more cumfy than last night 🤣
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4 years
This is the look of guilt!! After climbing on the furniture and consuming half a large bag of minstrels, a call to the vets and us worrying all night. He’s fine, and ready to up the stakes with a mint aero!! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Mark Oldham
5 years
What’s the best way to sooth a castration? A roaring fire with your lampshade off 😊
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3 years
H is 7 today - another year older, another year stupider 😂
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5 years
We’ve come for a couple of days in York in an attempt to get a 10 year old to breath in some culture. Meanwhile back at Mum’s, a crazy dog man is created 🤣
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4 years
Our dachshund is broken. He’s got dirty and isn’t complaining 🤣
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5 years
Richard has just loaded Milly single handed, all Clarky and I could do is watch in admiration at this well oiled machine of a man!! @Jonclarkson77 @RevRichardColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
Just 3 sausages and a lab going about their business #foxandhounds
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4 years
Baby H and Big H 😍
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Look who’s 5 today!! The best friend a man could ask for, he’s had a tough time this year having to learn to share his family but has smashed it as he does with everything. Happy Birthday Foxy 🐶 xx
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5 years
A quick walk down the valley and H doesn’t even consider following Foxy into the lake #foxandhound 🦊🐶
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4 years
It was this little boy’s 6th birthday yesterday and as his new humans we found out too late to party. So it’s a belated party at the weekend, any suggestions on how we can make it up to him are welcomed 😱
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5 years
It’s a Mexican stand off with the Worden Park mud!!
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3 years
Attic find - put a smile on my face on a rainy Saturday morning 🥰 @RevDavidColes
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Mark Oldham
5 years
The cat is out of the bag, I’ll be running the @LondonMarathon this year in memory of my brother Dave, raising funds for @guidedogs dressed as @MagpieVictor . If you have a spare couple of quid then please send it my way for this great cause ❤️❤️❤️
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Richard Coles
5 years
This is my adored brother in law, @mancunianmark , who is doing this in memory of @RevDavidColes - Victor Magpie is running the London Marathon
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4 years
Made it to Southampton, ready for another week on the Island. I’ve an hour to burn until the ferry, time to start @RevRichardColes new book 😢
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5 years
Just found this photo with Dave’s words on the reverse. It’s amazing what you find when you’re not looking 💔 @RevDavidColes
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Mark Oldham
3 years
New bow tie day for H #dapper
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5 years
My homemade fish pie as inspired by @RevRichardColes
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5 years
Love this 💙
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Richard Coles
5 years
Ceramic Review photographer @Cris_Barnett just sent sent me this photograph he made of @RevDavidColes using a plate camera and a process which is direct to paper rather than via a negative. It is my favourite. Thank you!
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5 years
Don’t sit on the sausage!! #sausagecamo
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5 years
Thank you Julia, I’ve been up to the Church to see David today and this message came through on the way back ❤️
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Julia Rich
5 years
@mancunianmark On St David’s Day, I have taken your lovely brother’s advice and treated myself to a bunch of Daffs. Have also made a donation to your @LondonMarathon page for @guidedogs in David’s memory. Come on @Twitter .. Let’s see some #daffsanddonationsfordavidcoles
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Mark Oldham
4 years
Look who’s back on the toad @RevRichardColes
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5 years
Thanks to the good folk of @JHSportsLtd for customising my vest for the @LondonMarathon . It’s going to be another emotional day @guidedogs @chorleyguidedog @RevDavidColes
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4 years
@RevRichardColes is a pain in the arse for constantly taking pictures but every now and then I’m grateful - here’s that one time, love this 😊
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4 years
And in one home delivery the great flour drought of 2020 was over 😊
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4 years
It’s nice to be missed 😊🐾
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3 years
Dad’s birthday today, any excuse to show off his massive sausage 🙊
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5 years
A quick walk through the storm. The dogs are reverting to type. Foxy being obedient and H doing whatever he pleases 🤦🏻‍♂️
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4 years
Labrador logic. As the cover of my bed is in the wash, I’ll take this opportunity to add some additional ventilation!!
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5 years
Walk or sleep? #foxandhound 🦊🐶
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4 years
H versus the Stepping Stones revisited. The boy has come a long way 🤣
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4 years
Just got up to make some breakfast and find myself under a fur blanket 🐕 🐶 🐈
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5 years
4 mile stroll this afternoon with the Fox and the Hound, I’m not used to walking with a stubborn diva that needs frequent rest breaks. H just stops and refuses to move when he gets tired. If he carries on, he’ll be travelling by rucksack!!
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5 years
H - Still rocking the bow tie 😊
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4 years
We’re on our daily walk minding our own business and look who’s going in the other direction #sausagearmy
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4 years
Just popped to Mum’s doing my couriering. These two haven’t quite grasped social distancing yet. #Aud #Bo
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5 years
Just flown from Manchester to Milan and sat next to a proper space invader. I was in aisle seat he in middle, window is empty. I politely ask if he will move over, he says he likes the middle seat and then spreads his portly frame across all 3 😤
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4 years
Bitter wouldn’t melt!! Just 30 minutes ago I had to prise a screaming pheasant from his killer jaws 🤦🏻‍♂️
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3 years
We had Millie out today for Megan’s end of year school festival. So much fun to drive her 😊 @RevRichardColes
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4 years
It’s gonna be a hot one today - at least we have some shade in our garden
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1 year
For 5 minutes this morning, H was the highest sausage in England, he absolutely smashed Scafell Pike even with those little legs. Foxy was more interested in other people’s leftovers butties 🐶
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4 years
Adventures of a broken dachshund part 2. Crosby Beach
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4 years
Just got in from the school run to find Foxy being naughty sitting on the furniture. H isn’t on the furniture he’s on Foxy so all good 🤣
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Lockdown day twelvety-eleven
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