James Close
@jc2087.bsky.social
Student of the Laws of Seriality
Looks an awful lot like Alexei Sayle...
In the ancient #Roman world, even steelyard weights (counterbalances) could be made with first class artistry. Here, this bronze weight is shaped into the bust of a man, perhaps a Greek philosopher (or maybe the merchant!). 🏺 1/
Romano-British, 1st or 2nd c. CE, from London. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
Romano-British, 1st or 2nd c. CE, from London. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
December 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Looks an awful lot like Alexei Sayle...
I fill up even thinking about this film...
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I fill up even thinking about this film...
Reposted by James Close
To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
Loving the 70s British zombie film set in the Lake District (or is it the Peak District?) vibes in THE LIVING DEAD IN MANCHESTER MORGUE. Also the redubbing of the dialogue adds an extra eerie air. The hair stylist steals the show though for the two main characters - how did they get it so shiny?
Ready for chills? Then join #CarolineMunro in THE CELLAR CLUB at 9pm for a classic episode of DOOMWATCH (1971) featuring #PatrickTroughton followed by the cult classic THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974) #TPTVsubtitles Don't be late, Caroline's waiting.
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Loving the 70s British zombie film set in the Lake District (or is it the Peak District?) vibes in THE LIVING DEAD IN MANCHESTER MORGUE. Also the redubbing of the dialogue adds an extra eerie air. The hair stylist steals the show though for the two main characters - how did they get it so shiny?
One day I will take the train to Crewe and cycle to Mow Cop...
Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.
October 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
One day I will take the train to Crewe and cycle to Mow Cop...
#FoundInTheHospiceShop
Richard Wordsworth, Wordsworth's great great grandson, reads the Lucy Poems.
(Again somebody has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/gBFu2578J0M?...)
Richard Wordsworth, Wordsworth's great great grandson, reads the Lucy Poems.
(Again somebody has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/gBFu2578J0M?...)
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#FoundInTheHospiceShop
Richard Wordsworth, Wordsworth's great great grandson, reads the Lucy Poems.
(Again somebody has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/gBFu2578J0M?...)
Richard Wordsworth, Wordsworth's great great grandson, reads the Lucy Poems.
(Again somebody has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/gBFu2578J0M?...)
#FoundInAgeConcern
Source material for the next @psbhq.bsky.social project perhaps?
(as ever someone has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/zxYuBrV5dDo?...)
Source material for the next @psbhq.bsky.social project perhaps?
(as ever someone has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/zxYuBrV5dDo?...)
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#FoundInAgeConcern
Source material for the next @psbhq.bsky.social project perhaps?
(as ever someone has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/zxYuBrV5dDo?...)
Source material for the next @psbhq.bsky.social project perhaps?
(as ever someone has uploaded it to YouTube youtu.be/zxYuBrV5dDo?...)
(light ripple of applause)
I agree with John. It simply isn't cricket all this flag waving and shouting.
I agree with John. It simply isn't cricket all this flag waving and shouting.
September 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
(light ripple of applause)
I agree with John. It simply isn't cricket all this flag waving and shouting.
I agree with John. It simply isn't cricket all this flag waving and shouting.
Saw this in the cinema tonight, funny to think it is set in 1934, 47 years before it was made, and here I am watching it 45 years later. Still a brilliant film with one of the most memorable effects driven end sequences ever.
"Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens."
"They're beautiful!"
"Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens."
"They're beautiful!"
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Directed by Steven Spielberg.
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Saw this in the cinema tonight, funny to think it is set in 1934, 47 years before it was made, and here I am watching it 45 years later. Still a brilliant film with one of the most memorable effects driven end sequences ever.
"Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens."
"They're beautiful!"
"Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens."
"They're beautiful!"
Reposted by James Close
My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station.
What a waste!
What a waste!
The Walham Green
📍472 Fulham Rd., London SW6 1BY
This pub is located close to Stamford Bridge in Fulham, West London. The pub opened in July this year and is located in the former entrance building and ticket hall of Fulham Broadway tube station, built in 1910.
A thread 🧵
📍472 Fulham Rd., London SW6 1BY
This pub is located close to Stamford Bridge in Fulham, West London. The pub opened in July this year and is located in the former entrance building and ticket hall of Fulham Broadway tube station, built in 1910.
A thread 🧵
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station.
What a waste!
What a waste!
August 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
June 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
June 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Who wants to watch TV in a cinema @richardosman1.bsky.social ?
Doctor Who Season Two finale to be shown in UK movie theatres
cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-...
cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-...
Doctor Who Season Two finale to be shown in UK movie theatres
According to the VUE website, the final episode of Doctor Who Season Two, The Reality War, will be shown in UK movies theatres on 30 May 2025. “With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, B...
cultbox.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Who wants to watch TV in a cinema @richardosman1.bsky.social ?
Calling all flat roof pub enthusiasts @londonpubmap.bsky.social
It's going to be a lovely day for visiting a traditional British pub.
April 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Calling all flat roof pub enthusiasts @londonpubmap.bsky.social
Manhole cover of the day No.1
March 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Manhole cover of the day No.1
"These photographs have fired the imagination of the whole country. No longer will we be able to walk along a quiet country lane or through a leafy dell, without imagining we are being observed and our progress recorded by some silent sentinel from another world." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Play of the Week, Fairies
Two young girls insist that there are fairies at the bottom of the garden.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"These photographs have fired the imagination of the whole country. No longer will we be able to walk along a quiet country lane or through a leafy dell, without imagining we are being observed and our progress recorded by some silent sentinel from another world." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Just watched this on ITVX actually really liked it, only small niggle should've kept the counting out the money bit, otherwise very entertaining. Luke the Nuke was unreal. Q. for @richardosman1.bsky.social was the 180 for real or a setup? I feel it was real based on audience and Freddie's reaction.
Bullseye is back this Christmas on ITV!
Hosted by Freddie Flintoff, Official Scorer, Richard Ashdown & Extra Special Guest, Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler! 🎯
Hosted by Freddie Flintoff, Official Scorer, Richard Ashdown & Extra Special Guest, Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler! 🎯
December 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Just watched this on ITVX actually really liked it, only small niggle should've kept the counting out the money bit, otherwise very entertaining. Luke the Nuke was unreal. Q. for @richardosman1.bsky.social was the 180 for real or a setup? I feel it was real based on audience and Freddie's reaction.
Day of the Jackal last episode:
1. How did he get from the boat to the land without getting caught by jet ski's, speed boats and a chopper?
2. How did he survive the second car crash?
The last one they even acknowledged in the bolt on end scene set-up for season 2.
Still very watchable.
1. How did he get from the boat to the land without getting caught by jet ski's, speed boats and a chopper?
2. How did he survive the second car crash?
The last one they even acknowledged in the bolt on end scene set-up for season 2.
Still very watchable.
December 12, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Day of the Jackal last episode:
1. How did he get from the boat to the land without getting caught by jet ski's, speed boats and a chopper?
2. How did he survive the second car crash?
The last one they even acknowledged in the bolt on end scene set-up for season 2.
Still very watchable.
1. How did he get from the boat to the land without getting caught by jet ski's, speed boats and a chopper?
2. How did he survive the second car crash?
The last one they even acknowledged in the bolt on end scene set-up for season 2.
Still very watchable.
Just saw this today, incredible one man performance. Conjured the larger than life Dickens grotesques from thin air. And the hand of the ghost of Christmas yet to come was very special indeed.
👇🔗🪦
👇🔗🪦
December 12, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Just saw this today, incredible one man performance. Conjured the larger than life Dickens grotesques from thin air. And the hand of the ghost of Christmas yet to come was very special indeed.
👇🔗🪦
👇🔗🪦
Reposted by James Close
Blakes 7 previewed (1977 Christmas Radio Times).
December 11, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Blakes 7 previewed (1977 Christmas Radio Times).
Reposted by James Close
Nous sommes à Skegness pour travailler à Woolworths.
December 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Nous sommes à Skegness pour travailler à Woolworths.