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Keith Topping

@keitht.bsky.social

Self-Unemployed Author, Novelist, Journalist, Broadcaster, The Sick Man of The Stately Telly Topping Manor. Hobbies include socialising with fiends, loud guitar-based pop-music; watching football, cricket, TV and cinema, history, irking the purists.

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I think the first 10ish laps of the Aussie Grand Prix (up to the first VSC) with Young George and Young Chas going at it, leapfrogging each other each lap might be most excited I've been watching F1 since the 90s! God that was good. Race leaders changing every lap? *That'll* never catch on!

08.03.2026 10:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Depth As The Fourth Dimension, Girth As The Fifth First up, as they always used to say on Pipkins  back in the 1970s dearest bloggerisationism fiends, it's time ... Right, blog signal ac...

Git on th' blog thang, good God. (Sorry, I was just having a James Brown moment there.) From The North bloggerisationism update ahoy. Get it whilst it's fresh.

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28.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Multi-cultural Britain in 2026. Chinese New Year, the Tyneside Irish Centre and Dippin Do uts captured in one photo. Whaddya think about THAT, Mister Farago?!

22.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A day shopping ending, fir the first time in a while, at Amaysia. With Young Malcolm. Tasty.

10.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Things Are More Like They Used To Be Than They Are Now" Here we are again, dear bloggerisationism fiends, as happy as can be. Hit that there blog signal, Keith Telly Topping and let us get the se...

It's that old From The North bloggerisationism time yet again. Get it whilst it's lukewarm.

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08.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An important announcement: Yer actual has managed to change The Stately Telly Topping Manor duvet, IN ONE GO, in less than half-an-hour and with only minimal (though, not insignificant) back-pain involved. It's therefore time, once again, to declare ...

24.01.2026 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does Humanity Exist or is It Merely a Figment Of Yer Actual Keith Telly Topping's Over-Fertile Imagination? Another year, another month, another From the North bloggerisationism update. ... and. another thoroughly satisfying luncheonette with ...

Incoming 2026 bloggersationisms #1

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18.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another year, another fortnight, another chicken tikka masala!

15.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And THAT, fiends and lady-fiends, is how we do that. Yer actual will now be having a lie down in a darkened room in a warm bed with bottle (hot water not booze) and a towel over his head for the next few months to hibernate and recover his shit until he's ready to go again! It's been emotional.

04.01.2026 10:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Suppose I'd better stick the central heating on, then ..

04.01.2026 10:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Twixtmas nosh-up with Young Malcolm @ The Gate

29.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready, Steady, Gone Welcome you are, all of yer actual Keith Telly Topping's more-or-less several bloggerisationism fiends, to what is almost certain to be the...

The final From The North bloggerisationism update for 2025. Get it whilst it's hot. or, at least, lukewarm.

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24.12.2025 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Geese Are Getting Fat, So Please Put A Penny In Keith Telly Topping's Titfer What say ye, dearest bloggerisationism fiends, to a From The North update coming to you, direct, from The Stately Telly Topping Manor? All...

New From The north bloggerisationism ahoy.

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02.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Soon as I get editing Bride of a Vault of Horror out the way (sometime around Xmas week at the current rate), I've got the Stately Telly Topping Manor media sorted out to save me having to watch any actual telly over the festive period. This little lot should keep me occupied up to New Year's Eve.

02.12.2025 11:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As it's now the twelfth month of the year and I'm in an 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' mood, The Stately Telly Topping Manor decorations and tree are now up. They'll be down long before 5 January. Truth be told, they'll probably be down before Boxing Day.

01.12.2025 17:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christmas lights, Christmas Market ... it's still SODDING NOVEMBER! Testify, Brother Sir Nod (OBE).

27.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Is The Show That Never Ends (Pipe-Smoking Special) It's that time again, dearest bloggerisationiosm fiends. Oh, yes it is. The latest From The North bloggerisationism update begins with ...

From The North bloggerisationism ahoy, dearest fiends.

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14.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good book, that Rorret fo Dndlsi by that there Htiek Gnippot. Local author, apparently, even though he sounds like a Johnny Foreigner to me. Note: Correctly addressed, but dumped on the doorstep in the cold and wet then put in the Blue Bin. Well done, Royal Mail, *jolly* well done, there ...

13.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Was at The Keel Row, again. With Young Malcolm. Again. And a fun time was had by all (again).

13.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You think THAT'S bad ? I'm still waiting for my AUTHORS copies of Island of Terror

13.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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One of THEM days. Days when several of the things you've ordered which are gonna shatter your fragile bank account into tiny fragments arrive all at once. In life you win some, you lose some. Still I can, at least, write them off against tax as legitimate "business expenses"!

29.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Talent Borrows, Genius Squeals & Screams & Bubbles & Blares & Begs - BEGS - For Mercy" Here we are again, dearest bloggerisationism fiends, as happy as can be ... Hit that there Blog Signal yer actual Keith Telly Topping and l...

Crass self-aggrandisement and pluggerisation, gross malarkey, shenanigans and tomfoolery. Assorted daftness and other stuff. The usual, in fact.

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23.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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297,497 words. 263 footnotes. 78 entries (72 British, 6 Johnny Foreigners). 2 essays. Of course, it isn't finished. Now the REAL work starts. Taking probably the next 6 or 7 weeks editing it until it squeals for mercy. But, Bride of a Vault of Horror is now completed to first draft level.

20.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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WHY DIDN'T THEY DO THIS SOONER? WHY? WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY???????

19.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"You Got The Money, I Got The Soul. Can't Be Bought, Can't Be Sold!" Greetings, y'all, to another From The North bloggerisationism update in the house, dearest blog fiends. Coming to you, as t'were, live and...

From The North bloggerisationism update in the area, dear Bsky fiends. Get it whilst it's hot (or, at least, lukewarm), it may be the last for a bit as I've got this book to write, see (he said, fishing for sympathy ... and sales).

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21.09.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Publishers choice. They really like it. Actually, so do I (wasn't too sure about the green lettering at first, but it's grown on me!).

21.09.2025 10:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keith Telly Topping, why are you taking ANOTHER day off from writing your latest world-class tome to meet up with Young Malcolm for an afternoon of food, fun and frivolity? To which, of course, the answer - as usual - is that we both (but, especially me) REALLY DESERVE THIS. Clear now?

16.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The incoming of the latest set of page-proofs for Island of Terror has arrived, hotfoot, from Stately Telos Manor.

Ladies, gentlemen, it's been an emotional rip-roaring rollercoaster of a ride.

07.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Island of Terror, page 288. Dr Who & The Daleks. Logic, Let Me Introduce You To This Window section. You're going to buy this book, aren't you? Oh, yes you are. Go on. Go on. Go on.

04.09.2025 05:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Crack Of Dawn, Another One Down As they always used to say on Pipkins , 'it's ... time '; so, hit that there blog signal-type malarkey yer actual Keith Telly Topping and l...

Bloggerisationism thing ahoy.

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27.08.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0