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Just saying, all these tedious tiktoks of tables with rivers of resin in the middle and electric guitars made of tat and litres of resin only appeared when Duttons and Rickmans went from our streets, oh and TVR shuttered. I think 'Big Resin' is behind it all. @carpervert.bsky.social

Nick Ross. Coincidentally, Nick hosted the Crimewatch episode when the headmaster was murdered. True story. The school photo they showed on the telly had me and my mate Ben sat in front of him (murdered headmaster, not Nick Ross). Ben's dad was senior in the Met and was on the case.

Incredible ride on the Aylesbury to Buckingham road, which is a belter, but typically busy, you take the good bits where you can...

...That F.A. Cup final day was glorious :)

Reminded of putting ad artwork onto an Iomega ZIP disk and driving over to the bureau who had an ISDN line - they'd send it in to the various newspapers.

In my experience it would be a Backronym

at The Open University Science Faculty in the pre-iPhone days we moved ALL interactive content into Flash. HUGE project, incredible work by the devs doing amazing stuff with ActionScript.
Then iPhone... iPad and the death of Flash. Argghh!

Peggy Seeger - The Invisible Woman

Jeffrey Wright in Westworld. Photograph: 2020 Home Box Office, Inc. He has some lighting rig on his head that makes him look like Mr T.

Every time I catch a glimpse of this picture on the Guardian today I think they're rebooting the A-Team

Carmen the Podenco looking cosy in her jumper on a Sunday morning

A close up on Carmen's eye

Even closer on Carmen's eye, a person is reflected

Reflected in Carmen's eye, taking a photograph with a smartphone

Self-portrait in dog

this post hits right in @sniffpetrol.com's Venn

Advertising and design agencies were like this for a while - you'd have a 'creative' standing behind the 'Mac operator' telling them stuff... compress the kerning, drag out the leading, make the pic bigger, full bleed, nah back to the first size. They didn't know how to operate the computers 😀

Four resuci-annie's dolls for practicing lifesaving CPR on

Setting up the photoshoot for a Euro-trance vinyl limited edition cover art or mandatory first aid training refresh? You decide.

Written by Troy Kennedy Martin, he of The Sweeney, The Italian Job and Kelly's Heroes fame. The man had range!

Oh and the soundtrack seems eerily familiar... that's because it's Michael Kamen, with slow bluesy single notes by Eric Clapton... It's Lethal Weapon, two years early!

Widowed policeman Ronald Craven (played by Bob Peck) in the series Edge of Darkness (1985) An utterly bereft looking Ron is lying on the bed of his daughter who was just murdered and died in his arms. He is holding her Teddy Bear and an automatic pistol. Bad day. I suspect this isn't a happy go lucky story...

Started on Edge of Darkness. Always heard its quality, just that not sure of my appetite for dark conspiracy and brooding right now? (Maybe TV Burp on YouTube?) Reminds me of the Guinness Tinker, Tailor, fascinating if only for the cars out on British roads in 1985, look, there's a Matra Rancho!

An interesting example, thanks! Obviously the whole zombie thing removes any sense of terror, and it just becomes splatter... Which presumably was exactly what they intended.

An industrial shredder - very thick cylindrical toothed blades that rotate intermeshed, dragging whatever they are shredding into themselves.

Has any action film used the threat of one of these things? They are absolutely terrifying, yet utterly compelling to watch.

More to the point who needs another Avatar movie? Or even a second one.

Somebody has filed it under 'All Time Classics' in their listings which strikes me as a bit of a reach... :)

A box with a natty new pair of motorcycling boots inside

New Richa boots promise to be waterproof

Let's hope these can keep my feet dry winter commuting #MotoSky

A 1963 PAN Paperback edition of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

A somewhat dog-eared collection of PAN paperback James Bond books

Going to revisit the originals, courtesy of my Grandfather's paperbacks. He was a contemporary of Fleming and probably wouldn't be as gobsmacked by some of the stuff. Let's see if it's as weird as I remember... #Bond #Smershpod

you've almost certainly seen this @sniffpetrol.com but just on the off chance...

This suggests to me that a LOT of reports were collated at the end of The Great War

A Peaky Blinders downstairs bathroom! I see the weird ultra enthusiasm for PB (a perfectly acceptable tv series) from a while ago and imagine how one day grandparents are going to try and explain why their wedding day photos feature Tommy Guns and ludicrous hats.

I do that too. I think it hits quite hard with some. You can construct a story in your head where you're sticking it to the decadent rich folk who can afford it...

...but your mum knows.

Ducati Scrambler on a cold, wet morning with snow on the ground

Ducati Scrambler on a cold, wet morning with snow on the ground

Well it's gonna be the first and last few hundred yards that are the spiciest this morning... #MotoSky

Just rename it the Nobel Prize for Compromise and Consent and watch his obsession with having it disappear.

A beautiful example of the marque in tip top condition

Cooking spec Imprezza

Cooking spec Imprezza

Showing some signs of age, but you could probably get it going with some attention

My uncle told me about the abandoned Toyota dealership in Cyprus, but that was in the UN Buffer zone in Nicosia. This just seems to have been left in a time warp

Part broken Subaru dealership sign in Mosta, Malta. The dealership seems abandoned in the nineties a collection of classic and 'brand new' cars are pristine inside except for collapsed tires, a victim of the hot summer sun.

A pristine looking Subaru XT 2+2 coupe in white sits on flat tires

Pristine cooking spec Imprezza in white

A cute lime green Subaru mini van, about the size of a Bedford Rascal

Made it to the abandoned Subaru dealership in Mosta, Malta. Some top drawer Carcheology. Let's get geo-phis out here, and dig a small trench... #MotoMalta @sniffpetrol.com

Daihatsu Terios in great nick, street parked in Victoria, Gozo on NYE

Mitsubishi Pajero Jnr

Mitsubishi Pajero Jnr

I thought my ideal Malta motor was this exquisite example of the marque Terios, but then I discovered the Pajero Jnr. What a great look, and the perfect pick on this island @carpervert.bsky.social #MotoMalta a Pajero, and who doesn't love them? But smol.

Seen an Aventador passing by a luxury car dealership, but it must be the most ridiculous pose purchase. There is nowhere here to get out of first and smooth tarmac is a rare treasure.