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Devon Dympsy

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Trains, Architecture, Maps, History, Music, Art, Theatre, Literature, Film. Plus a few stupid jokes, and quite a lot of beer ! 😁🍺🍺

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · Nov 6

Fuck it, the world's gone to hell anyway...

I'm having chocolate biscuits for breakfast !!

Image shows a coffee mug with two chocolate biscuits in front of it.

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Train Songs Central @trainsongscentral.bsky.social · 2h

'From an uptown apartment, to a knife on the A train
It's not that far'

Remembering Kirsty MacColl today on what would have been her 66th birthday

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1h

Need a favour, Devon pals.

Our son is studying A levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry and is looking for a local science, research or engineering related work experience placement for a week at the end of this term.

Any suggestions of organisations or companies he can approach most welcome.

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 3h

Great photo...👍

At first glance, it looks like every airlock you've ever seen in a sci-fi film! 🙂

Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 6h

Inside The New DLR Train

I love that the carriages are joined on the new Docklands Light Railway trains, meaning that you can now walk the entire length of the train. This angle makes it look futuristic!

Taken at Woolwich Arsenal DLR Station.

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 3h

Fair point...

Definitely wouldn't be a "borrow" if it came in a certain nice glass! 😉😁

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

Morning, Chirpy! 😉

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

Another excellent film that I haven't watched in ages...

Might rectify that this weekend.

Image shows a dvd of the film "Giant" which stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean.

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

I think I got mine from a secondhand bookshop in the Lake District...

Quite a hefty tome to have carried back home! 🙂

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

As th everything, I will! 😁

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

I have that book too...

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

Tried what? To watch it?

No good then?!

Not that I will take your opinion as the right one, before deciding for myself! 😁

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

I think this is on Film4 this week, which I wanna watch...

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 4h

I love this film...

Not least because of this rather hammy performance of "I Wonder Why" by a ridiculously young Nick Cage and Jim Carrey! 😁

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone?! 😉😁

Image shows a lady in old fashioned dress leaning over a window or balcony. The picture is captioned:

"Good morning.
I wonder if you might have a teeny cup of gin I could borrow."

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 17h

Well, you are:

😉😁

Fred Wedlock - Oldest swinger in town TOTP

YouTube video by ArseFromHisElbow

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 18h

Quite right too...people bang on about keeping "original features" in houses, so why not these suites! 😁

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 18h

Good for him! 👍🙂

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 19h

Not sure if that first one is "Turquoise" or "Caspian" but either way, I'd have it now! 😁

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 19h

Should you be looking for bathroom design inspiration here are some colorful ideas from the late 70s. Couldn't resist picking up a catalogue of sanitary ware from a local bus stop/ book swap. I mean, just look at the colour chart 😍

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 19h

Just caught a bit of a tv advert for Anchor Butter...

Immediately started singing along - because they have used the brilliant "Don't Scratch My Soca" which was, of course, the theme tune from Desmond's. 👍 🎶

Desmond’s theme tune | 1989 - 1994

YouTube video by Black British Library

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you can't...it's already full of garden gnomes! 😁

a gnome with a red hat is cutting grass with a lawn mower

ALT: a gnome with a red hat is cutting grass with a lawn mower

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

I love everything about this! 👏👏

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 1d

A new single, ‘Might Have, Might Not Have’, has been released from my poetry-pop album with The Catenary Wires, ‘Sounds Made Like Humans’.

There’s even an accompanying video with some very super Super-8 footage of trains and tracks for all you railway enthusiasts out there.
youtu.be/6m7ZZZhlIC0?...

Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Might Have, Might Not Have

YouTube video by Skep Wax

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

This is excellent...👍

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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Liam O'Farrell @liams-art.bsky.social · 1d

It is great to be a part of the Wells Art Contemporary Exhibition this year. I and 49 other artists have designed skateboard decks which will be showing.

2025 show will be open every day between 8 October and 1 November 2025

The Cathedral is open from 9am to 4.30pm seven days a week. Come along!

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

Morning...
Glad to see you have perked up a bit! 😉

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that takes me back!

Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 1d

Quite right too! 😁