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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2h

"What's my motivation?"`

"Imagine you have bills to pay, but no money. Then all of a sudden you get your hands on money. The money isn't yours. It's for the Christmas club. You character needs that money. They are conflicted. Can you give me conflicted?"

"I'll give it a go."

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 2h

Someone is trying to kill Joe Conway...

#JackWarner in DIXON OF DOCK GREEN (1976) 12noon guest stars #BillTreacher #JohnCarson 'Vagrant' #TPTVsubtitles

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2h

Book people are no different to other people with a passion about things. Anyone with passion is a wrong'un.

Be less passionate 😀

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 16h

ASO have created a beast. It's never the race, it's the carnival built around the race from the very first day of the season. Every day from the first race of the road season is focussed on three weeks in July. It's even painful as a spectator of the sport.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 21h

You wait a week and someone will steal it off social media and start printing it with no view as to who created it.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Something for kids ;)

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

The only two I haven't finished this year have multiple actors

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I know people said it was bad... but I didn't realise it was "spoof comedy thriller" bad.

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I am being made to watch the final (for now) Mission Impossible. As a non-completist (is that a word?) I could be happy finishing halfway through the last one.

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I quite liked the first one, as it was more spy/espionage like that TV show... Than just running at a camera. I should have stopped at two. That was hot garbage

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Len Leighton - Mexico Set

I am really enjoying the Bernard Samson books, but like the Slough House books, they would be half the length if the spies just trusted each other.

/58

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I am being made to watch the final (for now) Mission Impossible. As a non-completist (is that a word?) I could be happy finishing halfway through the last one.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Riff isn't wearing a Baracutta.

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Another weekend in danger of slipping by, when it feels like all I have done is have a large lunch break between work on Friday and Monday. A good celebration of a mate's 50th aside.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2d

There is more to the veg world!

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2d

"Keep the RAG Green..."

(Yes, I am cheating a little)

Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 2d

"You've got backups, right?"

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

"While we liked the"

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I bought a load of albums on the back of a single record and realised the album wasn't for me.

Cornershop the most obvious one. I'd heard the Fat Boy Slim remix and ran out and got the album. It was at that point I realised it was a remix and not the style of the album

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Robyn Clay interview: the sufferer’s road to the pro ranks thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/10/10/r...

I don't know if it's Denny that writes all of the unnamed articles, but I love reading stories like this on the site. Same with all of the named writers. A great site for cycling

Robyn Clay interview: the sufferer’s road to the pro ranks

In a year that began with injury and uncertainty, Robyn Clay set herself three simple goals: score UCI points, podium at Nationals, and turn professional. By season’s end she’d done all that and mo…

thebritishcontinental.co.uk

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Which of these is more likely to be a front for folk up to no good?

An image of a parade of shops. The familiar fake black oak beams against white paint, displaying the awful design that is mock Tudor in the UK. Two shops sit next to each other. One a Turkish barber. The other one is dedicated to the sport of racing pigeons

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

No one needs to see the neutralised zone for Il Lombardia #Cycling

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

It's how they get you. One minute you're debating which meal deal to get, next you are fighting off illness with science and ice cream.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

The one near Seven Dials is usually quieter, if you are ever near that.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Someone shared a link to me yesterday of ex-Observer types setting up their own site, as the actual Observer ploughs on.

It's like UB40 all over again.

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Hahhahhahahha

A glass engraved to make it look like it is cracked. Cost - £325

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I bet they are Base shoes bought from Office.

Andy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · 3d

Scrolling through old photos and spotted this absolute belter jeans and sheux from 2018

Jeans and sheux. Feel the weight of them

Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Before I open the app, how Rage Baiting is HTSI this week?

Michelin chefs selling Greggs sausage rolls for £200? Balenciaga copying the M&S Blue Harbour range for £1000? Boxer shorts with golden gussets for £5000?

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Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I am so old.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul's son, Tagenarine, opening the batting for the West Indies. I remember his old man starting his test career.

Sean Paul voice: CHANDERPAUL!

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