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@davidgibbs.bsky.social

Genial would-be old bloke interested in mediæval history, British art, science, music, cats, old telly and Doctor Who.

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Without a pause, definitely. It's my version of counting sheep.

02.12.2024 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now 3, because they said on the radio it contained a unique remix of Two Tribes. (It was actually the picture disc mix, but still fairly rare back then.)

28.11.2024 09:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I always assumed it was an age thing. Born after, say 1970 and it would have been a fundamental part of your adolescence, but much older than that and not only were you outside the target audience, but you'd also remember the real stuff like The Changes and Children of the Stones.

20.11.2024 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's the Twitter feature I miss most here

18.11.2024 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Already on it 👍😎

18.11.2024 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Age yourself with your first computer.

Video Genie.

17.11.2024 18:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Photo City at the V&A Dundee – Different perspectives on Urbanism — HASTA By Thomas Gibbs As an art historian with a passion for urban design (probably shaped from playing too much SimCity as a child) I was excited as soon as I saw the poster for the V&A Dundee’s late...

Excited to publish my review of my favourite exhibition yet at the V&A Dundee!

www.hasta-standrews.com/reviews/2024...

17.11.2024 17:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That's brilliant! And explains so much. 🙂

17.11.2024 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Double Deckers used to have a sublime biscuit-and-raisin base, but now it's sodding rice krispies all the way. I still haven't got over it.

16.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

I think about this picture more often than I should.

15.11.2024 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Check in on those around you | #WorldMentalHealthDay 💛💚 #youarenotalone
At times, it can be obvious when someone is struggling to cope. But sometimes the signs are harder to spot. Check in on those around you.#WorldMentalHealthDa... Check in on those around you | #WorldMentalHealthDay 💛💚 #youarenotalone

Check in on those around you.

21.10.2023 12:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally.

16.10.2023 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I inherited some of these from my older cousins, and fifty years later my children were still playing with them.

16.10.2023 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There appears to be something in my eye...

16.10.2023 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've not found it since, despite scouring YouTube for years. The other Bura & Hardwick musical animations from this series were released on VHS over thirty years ago, but Kije wasn't included, sadly.

26.09.2023 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn't it everybody's? Pure winter evening cosiness.

26.09.2023 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, that was going to be mine! ♥️

26.09.2023 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Their animated Lt Kije made me fall in love with classical music, and is singlehandedly responsible for my Radio 3 obsession.

26.09.2023 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trip Adviser one-star reviews reimagined as railway posters 🙂

www.jettystreetpress.co.uk/category/ove...

26.09.2023 14:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes at a charity shop the match is so uncanny that I accuse my wife of surreptitiously giving away my collection...

24.09.2023 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Introduce yourself with three books you love:

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Prime Obsession - John Derbyshire

24.09.2023 08:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a worrying time when my 13-year-old discovered Educating Marmalade. I had a nasty suspicion that he was taking notes...

23.09.2023 00:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Season 20 is my favourite. Very few people agree with me, but I don't care. And yes, these collections definitely help us appreciate stories we didn't necessarily notice properly at the time.

22.09.2023 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I enjoyed them all at the time, but was a innocent then, before I discovered fandom. 🙂 The King's Demons is another kitsch but beloved guilty pleasure.

22.09.2023 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love it. It may be considered the runt of the Season 20 litter, but it's still wonderfully entertaining, and it's never looked better. ♥️

22.09.2023 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No, but now I can't unsee it!

I was convinced for years that there used to be a Thames ident without the Post Office Tower, but as it went up several years before Thames started, I've reluctantly concluded that I was just a delusional - or possibly shortsighted - child.

21.09.2023 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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