Tobias Sturt
@redskelington.bsky.social
Editor of http://www.themetropolitan.uk, writer of http://addtwodigital.com/book, creator of http://christmasstories.co.uk.
My friend Jon’s voice for the Yule Cat in our Christmas story ‘An all too magical Christmas’ is beautifully suave
Please may we culturally appropriate the Icelandic Christmas Cat?
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My friend Jon’s voice for the Yule Cat in our Christmas story ‘An all too magical Christmas’ is beautifully suave
We're exactly halfway through this year's Christmas story and Alfie, who has taken a seasonal job packing boxes, is about to take a leap into the mysterious depths of the warehouse.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We're exactly halfway through this year's Christmas story and Alfie, who has taken a seasonal job packing boxes, is about to take a leap into the mysterious depths of the warehouse.
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This year's Christmas story is about a man who constantly confuses technology for magic, but then what could be more more magical than a seasonal story delivered instantly, for free, cirectly to your ears?
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December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This year's Christmas story is about a man who constantly confuses technology for magic, but then what could be more more magical than a seasonal story delivered instantly, for free, cirectly to your ears?
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Whatever this cold / flu is, it’s taken a turn for the worse and I’ve had to abandon all pretence of work and comfort myself by watching this incisive documentary on the political instability in Freedonia
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Whatever this cold / flu is, it’s taken a turn for the worse and I’ve had to abandon all pretence of work and comfort myself by watching this incisive documentary on the political instability in Freedonia
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Yuletide Borders, scanned by us from a 1960s Riscatype catalogue.
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These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...
These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yuletide Borders, scanned by us from a 1960s Riscatype catalogue.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...
These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...
These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
Every year I write a Christmas story and then I lock my friend Jon in a box and make him read it into a microphone. Fortunately Jon is tolerant, professional and, even better, an extraordinarily good actor. But don't take my word for it, listen to this year's story here:
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December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Every year I write a Christmas story and then I lock my friend Jon in a box and make him read it into a microphone. Fortunately Jon is tolerant, professional and, even better, an extraordinarily good actor. But don't take my word for it, listen to this year's story here:
buff.ly/5sUTgEh
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An audiobook advent calendar: a Christmas story released one short episode a day on the run-up to Christmas. This year's story is up to episode 9 and things are getting dramatic in the warehouse.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
An audiobook advent calendar: a Christmas story released one short episode a day on the run-up to Christmas. This year's story is up to episode 9 and things are getting dramatic in the warehouse.
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Every year I write a Christmas Story that we then serialise as a podcast of 24 episodes. This year's is 'The Wish List', the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Every year I write a Christmas Story that we then serialise as a podcast of 24 episodes. This year's is 'The Wish List', the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
Subscribe here: buff.ly/5sUTgEh
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I think my first conscious exposure to Martin Parr was the terrific BBC series ‘Signs of the Times’ and ‘From A to B’, where his unerring eye was key to the interested and incisive social observation
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From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring (1994)
What we think about what other people think about cars
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December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I think my first conscious exposure to Martin Parr was the terrific BBC series ‘Signs of the Times’ and ‘From A to B’, where his unerring eye was key to the interested and incisive social observation
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Martin Parr has died & this grimmest gloomiest greyest, Sundayest of Sundays is the perfect day to watch Signs of the Times.
All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects
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All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Signs of the Times - That Little Bit Different
Terry and Sue quite like Austrian blinds but feel they're common. And just why do Ray and Jane change their three-piece suite twice a year? (1992)
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December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Martin Parr has died & this grimmest gloomiest greyest, Sundayest of Sundays is the perfect day to watch Signs of the Times.
All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Robert Smith & Santa
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Robert Smith & Santa
It's Mixtape week in The Metropolitan, which means its also time for my monthly playlist, and being December, it's a Christmas one, inevitably.
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Mixtape: 11 '25
Playlist · The Metropolitan · 10 items · 5 saves
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December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's Mixtape week in The Metropolitan, which means its also time for my monthly playlist, and being December, it's a Christmas one, inevitably.
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Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
buff.ly/T8Hgkyw
Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
buff.ly/T8Hgkyw
Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
buff.ly/T8Hgkyw
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine:
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine:
www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...
www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...
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Todd Klein, ladies and gentlemen.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Todd Klein, ladies and gentlemen.
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[Harpo Marx was born Adolf (later Arthur) Marx on this day in 1888. Circa HORSE FEATHERS he was handing out nude photographs of himself as a gag; one was auctioned recently for $5,760. You can see it here, but I've warned you. (Thanks Teakagee!)]
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November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
[Harpo Marx was born Adolf (later Arthur) Marx on this day in 1888. Circa HORSE FEATHERS he was handing out nude photographs of himself as a gag; one was auctioned recently for $5,760. You can see it here, but I've warned you. (Thanks Teakagee!)]
bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/...
bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/...
An amazing piece of recipe visualisation in which every option appears to be revolting
Nov 1956: Tomato Soup ad from Crosse & Blackwell
(+Cream of Mushroom Soup; Cream of Celery Soup; Cream of Green Pea; Vegetable Soup; and Consomme)
«CROSSE & BLACKWELL
Ten-o'clock Tested
SOUPS»
(+Cream of Mushroom Soup; Cream of Celery Soup; Cream of Green Pea; Vegetable Soup; and Consomme)
«CROSSE & BLACKWELL
Ten-o'clock Tested
SOUPS»
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An amazing piece of recipe visualisation in which every option appears to be revolting
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Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.