Keith Sands

Keith Sands

@keithsands.bsky.social

Cambridge-based, work in ELT publishing / ed tech for a university press. Semi-competent rock climber. Half Man Half Biscuit & Cardiacs enjoyer. Occasional writing and translation.

116 Followers 127 Following 276 Posts Joined Dec 2023
2 days ago

The old chapel windows added to the sense of an act of collective worship. Vennart made great use of the balcony for 'The Whole World Window'.

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2 days ago
Cardiacs on stage from the side, audience, figures on gallery silhouetted against ornate chapel windows

Cardiacs, Albert Hall, Manchester. Incredible.

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3 days ago

Big pitta bread, soak it up.

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5 days ago

You already know about her brother, I guess? And her dad? Quite the family.

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1 week ago

You could be tugging on the beard of science, but you couldn't be bothered.

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1 week ago

They've got one very similar in Rome.

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1 week ago

Yikes. Putting the 'a' into defection.

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1 week ago

Thames upon Richmond, you mean...

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1 week ago

Surely that is the young Mark E Smith, pondering lyrics for his notebook ("the junior clergy demand more cash / we spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt")

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2 weeks ago

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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2 weeks ago
Ludicrously expensive tulip from 17th century Dutch tulip catalogue
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3 weeks ago
Silver jubilee souvenir toy bus

Still got one of these in a box in the roof somewhere. Might smash it up with a big hammer later.

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3 weeks ago

Ted Hughes
Set his poetic controls to cruise
And pondered that being Laureate had stitched him up proper,
As he knocked out his epithalamium about Andrew's chopper.

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3 weeks ago

He must have been hammering the complimentary butt of sherry to come up with that one

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3 weeks ago
Headline: 'My DNA is in this car': Lewis Hamilton revved up for Ferrari in new F1 season

Suddenly reminded of a Thomas Dolby song from 1988, can't think why.

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3 weeks ago

Matt Goodwin is a lifelong anti-blatant racist.

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3 weeks ago
1948 Italian poster for Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves)

The trouble with Hollywood is they can't stop doing remakes

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3 weeks ago

Finally, the sequel that De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' deserves

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1 month ago

Well this is what happens if you saw Carry On Don't Lose Your Head at a formative age

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1 month ago

1989

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1 month ago

Terry "Carry On" Scott, David "Sunday Sport" Sullivan, Grant "Multiple Aliases" Shapps

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1 month ago

The Winter Olympics needs some kind of snowball fight event as well

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1 month ago

If there's doubles luge in the Winter games, there should be a piggyback race in the Summer games

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1 month ago
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1 month ago
YouTube
Half Man Half Biscuit - Fix It so She Dreams of Me [Official Audio] YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit

Chesil Beach, as mentioned by HMHB, "I know Chesil Beach is far away in time" youtu.be/gWW6AB9bj5s?...

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1 month ago

Where else is he going to keep his sandwiches?

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1 month ago

Ben's silence after "... the new Nick Drake" is the loudest and most awkward in pop music. You can almost hear him breaking out in a sweat.

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1 month ago
YouTube
Old USSR Commercial - IKEA "like" by USSR, YouTube video by ReallyFunnyStuff

Generic 'Marketing Board' type ads from the 1970s are similar to Soviet ads. Like this one, which boils down to "Empty flat? Have you considered FURNITURE?" youtu.be/SGw4rQ1HPvA?...

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1 month ago

a snotgreen sea

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1 month ago

Fall of Eagles from 1974? Final episodes feature Patrick Stewart as Lenin.

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