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Vicky Garnett, PhD
@snappyhapper.bsky.social
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Here to talk #TheArchers, hiking, Digital Humanities, Linguistics if I'm feeling brave, and maybe show off some photography. Late diagnosed ADHD, so I should probably be doing something else right now...
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Loiks like Mel B off of the Spice Girls beat Beyoncé to the cowgirl look by at least 2 and a half decades here

#TOTP
Mel B singing "I want you back" on Top Of The Pops dressed in a red pleather catsuit with a big white cowboy hat.
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Who needs a timeline cleanse?

Here ya go!

#Borsetter
The bestest dog in the world, a black and white Llewellin/Collie cross called Ada is sitting on some grass with her white spotty legs stretched on in front of her. She's had quite enough of me shoving the camera in her face but because she's a good dog she tolerates it as long as I throw her treats every once in a while.
September 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Did I share this yet? I'm not sure I did.

Here's a linoprint I did last week of Glastonbury Tor, silhouetted against a multicoloured gouache background.

Not entirely successful, but not a total F-up!

#GlastonburyTor #IndependentArtist #Art #Linoprint
Linoprint of Glastonbury Tor in black ink on a multicoloured background.
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Reposting image with alt text:
"100 years ago in Country Life, September 5, 1925". Black and white photograph of a solid AF looking sheep standing side-on with long wool, and almost no legs to be seen, like a tissue box cover your granny undoubtedly had when you were growing up. The sheep also has gurt huge curling horns that frame a black and white speckled face. The text continues "All over the high-lying parts of the north of Englabd and Scotland there is distributed a most wonderful breed of sheep - the 'black-faces'. Its origin is obscured in the distant past. It may be that". And at that point the text is cut off and we will never know what it 'may be that'.
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Ok, I didn't draw this one today, I drew it a few months ago when I was stuck on my bed with a broken leg in a cast. My friend loves pigeons and asked me to draw one for her. So here it is.

#DrawABird
Drawing of a rock pigeon. The pigeon is shown from the shoulders up. It has it's back to us and is turning its head over its left shoulder, in a kind of a 'you what?!' manner. Its eye is bright orange.
August 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Try again, Dystopian tech bros, #BlackMirror already did this.

#BeRightBack
Hayley Atwell in a blue jacket standing next to Domhnaill Gleeson, wearing a green jacket, from the 2013 Black Mirror episode 'Be Right Back'. They are standing at the cliffs of Dover. The story was about a woman so distraught at the death of her boyrfriend that she signs up to an AI service that synthetically reproduces her boyfriend verbally, and then in physical form through data mined from his social media posts. It doesn't end happily.
August 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Had a bash at a linoprint reduction this week while off work. Had fun stabbing away at the lino to try to get the murmuration effect of hundreds of starlings all swooping as one. But so many mistakes, still very much learning how to do this, and this one is the best of a bad bunch. #Linoprint #Art
Linoprint of a starling murmuration over the Somerset Levels at sunset. Glastonbury Tor is visible on the lefthand side, and a few orangey clouds skate along the sky.
August 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Soulful head shuffle ✅️
"Baybaayyy!" ✅️

No notes. Excellent work Will Mellor.

#TOTP
Young Will Mellor over-egging the soulful pudding as he does his version of "When I Need You" on Top Of The Pops. Definitely nothing cringe worthy to see here.
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
I've always loved how Sister Sledge so obviously didn't discuss what they'd be wearing for this #TOTP perfomance. I feel they left the lead Sledge out to dry a little with her leather get up 🤣
Sister Sledge performing 'Frankie' on Top Of The Pops, with 3 dressed like they are going to a family barbecue and the lead singer dressed like she's off to a swinger club.
July 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Feck it, at this point the songs are so bad, the videos so cheesy in a blatent display of the low low number of Fs Russ Abbott gives that this be considered at all cool that I'm kind of on board with it now. Only took me 40 odd years. And let's be honest, we'd all prefer Russ to Simply Red #TOTP
Russ Abbott standing in a pool, soaking wet, dressed as a waiter in a bad wig and fake moustache pulling a mugging expression at the camera. Photo of music video on a tv.
July 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
It's bonkers to me that the young folks these days are styling themselves like this again without any hint of irony. God it makes me feel old 🤣 #TOTP
Bloke with a curly black mullet and a short moustache wearing a cropped leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up on Top of the Pops.
June 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
It's nice that #TOTP gave this nerd a chance to dance out the end credits, and even nicer he got to bring his aunty along too.
Nerdy bloke salsa dances with a woman with a huge perm on Top of the Pops
May 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
This bloke looks like he fell off an episode of Toast #TOTP
Man singing on Top of the Pops in front of a Union Jack, wearing a natty fedora hat at a jaunty angle, a smashing thin moustache, a red leather waistcoat over a brown satin jacket and a beige cravat.
May 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Blimey, @stephenlucek.bsky.social , you kept your stint in the Four Seasons quiet.. #TOTP
Beardy men in powder blue suits playing guitars, it's the Four Seasons with Frabkie Valli Beardy man from The Four Seasons and Frankie Valli
May 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
You thought #CrispPacketTriangles worked only on packets of crisps? Oh, you sweet summer children, why, any type of wrapper (within reason) can be folded into the sacred form. Behold this Nature Valley bar wrapper and weep, unbelievers!
A Nature Valley granola bar wrapper folded into a triangle with exquisite precision.
May 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Ireland and Britain share a lot of cultural overlaps, and also a few key differences (Rock the Boat vs Oops Upside Yr Head), But as a Brit living in IE for over 20 yrs I've concluded that #CrispPacketTriangles are perhaps the biggest shibboleth. It's the highest form of British #Origami. #IYKYK
Brown paper bag folded up into a neat triangle. A practice as old as time, handed down from generation to generation in special ceremonies held in British beer gardens every summer. Usually as soon as the first packet of salt and vinegar crisps has been demolished by bored children.
May 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Supper's Ready....

#Eurovision #ESC2025 #Italy #Genesis
Italian entrant to Eurovision 2025 with long hair and white face make up looking a lot like Peter Gabriel in Genesis.
May 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
Scott Mills just mentioned Sharon from Eastenders and I'm howling!

#ESC2025 #Eurovision
The character Sharon from Eastenders. Or is it Danish Eurovision entrant Sissal? We can't tell. After all we've never seen them in the same room together, have we?!
May 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Is it me or does yer wan from #Montenegro look like she's stuck in the middle of a loo roll? #ESC2025 #Eurovision
Woman singing in a white dress with an ENORMOUS collar.
May 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I knew I'd seen Red Sebastian's costume before

#Belgium #Eurovision #ESC2025
Jedward performing at the Eurovision Song Contest in shiny red tops with very high shoulders.
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Unashamedly loving the outfits for this Ukrainian song. And the song too, hints of prog!

#Eurovision
Ukrainian entey on Eurovision with lead singer in a smashing red peplum trouser-suit.
May 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
snappyhapper.bsky.social
I have a dog snoot not dissimilar to that in my life.

#Borsetter
Snoot of a black and white 'borsetter' (border collie x llewellin setter) pokes out under a blue spotty table cloth. Point of view is top down onto the snoot.
May 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Lovely bit of #dialect use from #Yorkshire based #Sirdar yarns here...
Inside of a delivery box from Sirdar, on the lid the words: EY UP!* Ey Up, exclamation [org. Yorkshire, Old Norse] (1) To greet someone or begin a conversation: "Ey up you. What are you knitting?" (2) To express surprise: " Ey up! I seem to have ordered more yarn."
May 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Is THIS the Reginald D they're looking for?

#TheArchers
Portrait photo of American comedian Reginald D. Hunter.
April 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I absolutely 🤩ed Bridget Christie's #TheChange on @channel4tv.bsky.social, & while I don't normally go in for #fanArt, the themes of #rebirth and #regrowth in S2 felt apt for me to draw as I recover from a broken leg and step back into the world. Plus I'm a big old #WestCountry hippy chick!
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A large tree stump with moss growing on it shows signs of regrowth. In front of the stump are lots of different forms of mushrooms and plants like dandelions and 'lords and ladies'. Underneath the soil is visible with roots and a mycelium network connecting the plants above. In the background, three mysterious women dressed all in white stand at the edge of a dark wood. Two eels form a semi-border on either side of the image, each in an elongated 's'-shape. Pencil drawing.
April 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM