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Berks of DeFrights

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Creative and cute. Not my words, Carol. The words of an Etsy marketing email. Design, Illustration, Gardens, Furniture, not AI. Ever. English in New England. Low T Man, High Tea Man. Let's get tonight's horror show on the road...

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · May 6

In the first story in From Beyond the Grave, there's a short sequence illustrating the passage of time as new tenants take on a flat, and Tony Curtis gets to design / dress three additional sets. And we go teak - rosewood - chrome...

Couple playing backgammon on a teak dining table with teak chairs and green cushions. Green jacquard wallpaper, a teak room divider / bookcase, a teak sideboard with large cream coloured lamp, and an armchair with curved sides - possibly bentwood. Difficult to tell from the screengrab.

man on the phone, standing in a lighter coloured room. Off white / green walls. Purple lamp. Dark rosewood furniture, including modular wall units, a matching sideboard, and a dining table and chairs. Large patterned armchair in brown on white.

Group of people in a room with purple and blue large patterned wallpaper. Chrome bookshelves, side chairs and a table.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 15h

Confused about the 'content' industry that has sprang up which revolves entirely around trying to recoup the cost of shit films dumped onto streaming by pretending that they're forgotten masterpieces on social media.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 18h

Awww. Sorry. Perhaps Scotland will be nice and warm and…

What AM I thinking?

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 18h

High octane lacquer, making those pistons pump.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 18h

Oh my goodness! What a fantastic story…well, for everyone but the people now trying to sell.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 19h

How dare you.

Are you back from your holiday yet, or still melting in Spain?

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 19h

It IS missing the engine, but how hard can it be to knock one of those together in the shed?

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 19h

Just missing an engine, obvs.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 19h

Things you don’t necessarily expect to find on Facebook Marketplace, Vol. 1

A full shot of the track car with enormous 70s front wing / wedge, and exposed rear suspension. Big fat track tyres.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 21h

In other news, on Monday it was 26 degrees.

Today it is 3.

Feel my wrath. No, go on. Feel it. That's right, just there. Down a bit. Oh yeah. Now just.... *police sirens*

I've gotta go.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

Somehow missed this! Sorry. Your house hunting while holidaying efforts are NOT unappreciated.

I could convert that back to a working wheel and power all my vitriol, side eye and ‘edge’ by it.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

Anyway, what have I missed? What's the deal? What's the shizz on the streets, hepcats?

What's that? We're all admiring this gentleman's very full head of totally normal hair, without suspecting for a second that it's running on Bobby Charlton fumes?

Fucking awful combover on some Tory who looks like he shouldn't be allowed close to schools.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a big imp. A blimp.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

*stares - blinking, a bit dazed*

THAT was a very busy week of my very deaf, very loud, very 'everybody talks at once all of the time', but very lovely uncle & aunt who've never visited before.

I owe them a lot. My childhood would've been VERY different without them. Love 'em to bits, but *exhales*

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

All good! Thank you for checking in - very thoughtful. Just a monstrously busy week with visitors...

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve just read the words ‘an upskilling company’, and I’m damned if you lot are going to escape Scot free…

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile, in the car, two people not recognising me, and looking for the wrong house because somebody wrote the number down wrong.

10/10. No notes.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Amazingly on-brand start to uncle and aunt’s visit. Me in the front garden watering the plants, without my glasses on, not recognising the people in the car doing multiple slow laps of the neighbourhood.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Leigh-Mallory’s Big Wing…of geese

Large formation of Canada Geese in flight

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Side garden gets pretty as the sun goes down at this time of year…

Sun catching the tops of grasses and shrubs that are turning reds and oranges.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Well I’M tempted.

Horrendous pic of blurry filthy looking chairs piled on top of each other in a filthy house. Antique chairs for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

THE SCIENCE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. ME HOT. WATER MUST BE HOT TOO.

Honestly, the first hot days here and people go leaping into the lake, like it’s not full of recently melted snow.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! It doesn’t make sense does it…how can air be so warm but water so cold? I remember leaping into a swimming pool off season in baking hot Tunisia and having the absolute fright of my life. So so cold. Took me a day to warm up again…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

Oh crumbs. That’s fairly ‘melty’….

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

You wouldn’t love what he got up to overnight…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

October, but sweltering. Melting while sat over by the ponds.

Hosta and fern and grasses ringed ponds. Sun poking through trees with blue skies

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