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Steve Morgan
@stevemorgan68.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist, reluctantly freed cat slave. Sport/music obsessive - 30 years-plus hackery, from local papers to FourFourTwo, FA, ECB, LTW, WSC, Manchester United, Wisden, Guardian, Observer. Got a record played on Radio One twice, won an award once.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 48m
Didn't Cloetta Plopp represent Belgium at 1972 Eurovision with Ninty Binty Slonty Bonty?
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 2h
Jaw dropping stuff
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 2h
Lordy. Thought it was a new Mumford and Sons ‘drop’ at first
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 3h
The genius of Neil Innes

youtu.be/nWaaZJWSsJA
RUTLAND JOHN - When THE RUTLES spoofed Elton John (1976)
YouTube video by Ra Bob
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 14h
Unfortunately, I think we only have around 8000 photos. 🤣
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 14h
Such a bizarre thing. I’m sure I read that it was some attempt at mimicry to try and trick them down. Just sounded like a tiny machine gun. Syd never did it, Nancy was a bugger for it
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 14h
Getting a lot from talking about them here. Thanks for your kind words x
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 14h
These cats seemed fairly hopeless at killing anything other than time. Across their 34-year collective tenure, we were treated to no more than a handful of ‘gifts’. Nancy, however, was brilliant at that funny noise they make when they watch birds out of the window.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 14h
Just remembering that time Syd and Nancy had Kermit round
My late dearly missed felines, tortoiseshell Syd (right) and tuxedo Nancy hear some of Kermit’s engaging tales
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 19h
Thanks. They taught the family immeasurably more than we realised and I still haven’t got to that point where I have stopped ‘seeing’ them in every corner. I’m not sleep-deprived, but am quite a night owl; I so miss their company. Your Iggy looked like a real character x
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 19h
Corporate Clegg, reporting for duty sir
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 20h
It will be viewed in retrospect as the age of pea-sized hearts.
I want my renaissance back.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 22h
Garage folk does a good place-holding job. Must go, asparagus next left!
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 22h
‘God bless America’ has let itself go. What an incredible photograph, from I think, the Chicago Sun Times.
Bone-chilling.
A pastor at a presbyterian church in Chicago is sprayed by ICE agents
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 22h
Sorry, I had to be the ‘someone’ in someone had to make that gag(gle).
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 22h
Did you go out for a gander?
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 23h
Even the name Jenrick sounds as if it could be some villainous character plucked from the pages of Dickens or Shakespeare. That or a nasty ailment, like ringworm.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
Libraries for ever 👌
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
Great to wake up to this as something like the fifth item of news on the wireless.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
I agree and sympathise - if it's any use I used to have professional dealings with a flatmate of his in his early musical days who worked in the theatre - she regularly raved about what a great bloke he was to live with - and how much he enjoyed his cooking.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
Well, your writing and recommendations are utterly boss. Hope this works out!
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
I had always dreaded it, but I think it also bites hard because of the huge chunk of our lives they were here for; in every photo for 17 years, a constant. Kids grew up with them etc etc. All the best with your grief process, however you manage it.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
It's a fascinating watch for the fashions, too, and some veteran big-hitting names - Elsa Lanchester, Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis. A young pup called Spielberg worked on some of them - don't know what happened to him.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
I would imagine the title sequence alone would seem instantly familiar - all these dormant memories lying there for the cult TV sleeper agents! The tale that sprang to mind was The Escape Route - see if if you can find that. Chilling stuff. Won't spoilt it by explaining the story.
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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 1d
What an amazing man he was. Having always had vague ‘you shouldn’t be up watching this’ memories of The Night Gallery as a 70s kid, I zoomed through the box set during those seemingly endless lockdown weeks. Some of it was admittedly terrible, but there were a few stories that leave a bit on you.
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