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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 42m

What a lovely little moment of joy. Thank you Toby, and the pumpkin winner and winning pumpkin

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 59m

Saw a man towing a pumpkin. Too many shapes and colours to ignore, so I asked if I could take photos.
“Ignore me. Just keep towing; it’s the shape of the pumpkin in the wagon I like” I explained.

He has just won first prize at the village show.
- Congratulations
- Thank you. I am very happy

Seen from behind- an enormous emergency red pumpkin sat in a metal wagon. It has a sticker with Kit Kat written on it. A man is towing the wagon down a narrow village pavement.

He had been using two hands behind him to pull, which is the composition I really wanted. But I didn’t want to get all David Hemmings and start posing him.

A photo from the side of the man - big broad smile, like he’d won the lottery - pulling his pumpkin in a trolley.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 58m

Also I didn’t read it as a sarcastic diss to the moon, but more as about girls losing their power as they become women

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 59m

I absolutely bloody love this.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t help but read “who do you look like?” with a rueful, wryly amused, head-shaking “dear, oh dear, oh dear” intonation.
Anyway, despite behind several decades too late to win one of six paintboxes, perhaps I will try this as a drawing exercise to fend off the Sunday schoolheart soulsink

Detail from a page of a 1970s puffin post magazine which reads Young Puffin competition what do you look like, with an excellent cartoon illustration in black and white of a human head split into smiling and crying halves, over text that reads We want you to draw or paint a two-faced picture of yourself - we want one picture of you looking happy and chirpy and one looking cross and gloomy and then stick them side by side. PRIZES 6 PAINT BOXES.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1h

“Coaster purchase”! Love it

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, intriguing! No, I left it at K. These days of course you can try before you buy, so I might - MIGHT - attempt it

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1h

Hahahahaha! Yes, a terrible legislative decision by John Major’s Conservative government in 1996, which led directly to Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997 and the advent of “Cool Britannia”.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, poor little ten year old you. Had a similar though less traumatic WTF experience listening to that for the first time as a young un. See also the haul of Berlin-era Bowie records I brought back from Camden Market as a teen.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sure you will enjoy Alexandra’s book on this very subject, Patrick

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 3h

To be fair, he *was* cute.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

😘

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Happy birthday! Surely beloveds, plural - lady and library?

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 6h

Although I have a weakness for
😂🤣😂🤣😂

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 8h

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 6h

What the absolute fuck?? (It sounds like a fantastic book, by the way)

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 6h

Gordon Parks

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Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 8h

Greetings and good morning it’s the Sunday farm rush hour with Letty-Lou, Mo, George & Kate

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 15h

Diane Keaton by Diane Keaton
Date unknown

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 7h

Also, the idea that a disaffected teen with a terrible life would find nothing to identify with in Dickens - even if you are obsessed with relevance (and I am not), that’s literally the plot of almost every Dickens book

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot remember a single reason why I bought Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne. A review somewhere maybe? Still blows my soul out whenever I hear it.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 18h

Not Heathen. Heathen is amazing.

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Dean @ordersson.bsky.social · 19h

on the flip, what did you buy blind on a total whim that turned out to be utterly life affirming?

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 3d

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 3d

It's one of the few albums I regret buying.
I'll Manage Somehow and Stardust are fine. The rest is mostly forgettable.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 19h

As a result of this conversation, @andrewmale.bsky.social put Ascension on for me earlier. I do feel that it's one you want to build up to. And that I have not yet sufficiently built. I did better with Bahia, which I loved.

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