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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 4h

The fab four took a tumble earlier. Now rebuilt. Glad I remembered where the box and instructions were.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My hall welcomes people to a world containing much Bakelite...

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dearest @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social you were amazing. Thank you so much for your kindness tonight. It meant the world. Other pic is Jan and I the day before we went to Whitby Abbey.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just been handed a tin of lethal bakelite lovelyness by a neighbour.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I am mostly on a narrow boat...

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Livie is the daily driver round here. That means she gets a tad neglected in the washing and polishing departnent. I put that to rights on Tuesday and now I feel guilty as she scrubs up really quite well.

Livie the Triumph 1300 after a spruce up.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw this and thought I ought to reply with this .

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well the little nylon cog turned up today. Kenwood Chef now restored to health.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@parodypm.bsky.social arrived at Clacton last night on the paddle steamer Waverley. No welcome committee no, civic reception, not even an angry mob in primark balaclavas. Poor show all round. Just tumbleweed blowing through and a shut chip shop.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brilliant day on the Waverley today. Down the Thames Estuary, into the North Sea then Southend and up the Blackwater to see Ross Revenge and then a coach back from Clacton. (No sign of Nige to greet us) Just dropped @janorak.bsky.social home after a fish and chip supper.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I copied today's #Morsle at 30 WPM on hard mode! morsle.fun In this pub with Curtis Mayfield playing at full volume while waiting for my 2nd pint. So high QRM

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How it started, how it is going and the offending broken cog. (Ordered). You can see the crack in it.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember money does not = taste or brains. This has been done to one of the houses in a road near us. Same house totally f@cked.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Kenwood Chef was my Mum's it dates from about 1970. The bits are available thank goodness. Green shield stamps! I remember it was always my job to stick them in the book 🤣

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last week the faithful Kenwood Chef A701A made 10 cakes and 3 loaves of bread. This evening something let go in the gearbox. All the spares are available.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is this a bed? I think it is a bed, you want it back? You are so selfish, f*ck you....

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On the @gailmyerscough.co.uk slipmat augmented turntable tonight. @davidbowiereal.bsky.social Toy. A work he was so proud of but was supressed until after he passed away. I like to think it was the man himself who leaked the bootleg to the internet back in the day.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For some reason I have found myself playing this more than the original recently.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rather startled to see my friend Mandy standing next to Steve Wright in 1981 #totp last night. And now Mandy, @janorak.bsky.social and I earlier in the year. Immediate whats ap sent, was sent. Is that you?? Yes came back the answer!

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Eclectic mix of new follows suggested by Bluesky today.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi Cathy, Have you heard of the Radio Ballads? It was a series made in the 60s around the traditional industries. www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radio... The most well known is The Big Hewer about the mines. It is here on Youtube. youtu.be/mf7LuLSJBLM?... I am lucky enough to have the album.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm Gene Hunt, your DCI, and it's 1973. Almost dinner time. I'm 'aving 'oops'

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have fitted countless bluetooth boards for people over the last few years. Oldest car radio I fitted one to was out of a '55 Studebaker. All valve with vibrator HT which had to be replaced with a solidstate version. Virtually every capacitor was shot in the thing.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yay, I am lucky here that 648 blasts in. It is only 4KW ERP from Orfordness. The site and antenna is the best in the UK but even so by the time you got home you were probably 175 miles from the site. Ofcom have been asked if the wick can be turned up. The TX is capable of 25KW.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Garlic mushrooms with cream cheese on toast for lunch. Food of the gods

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here is the one in my workshop. Not seen any use recently for obvious reasons

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You are not suggesting it is AI are you? Here is the back sitting on my record deck lid. It is a belt clasp.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here is the Radiomobile in my Triumph 1300. It was the radio fitted in my first car when I got it in 1987. I revived it from its nearly 40 year slumber to fit a bluetooth card and install it in the 1300 it came on straight away on 558 KHz now Panjab radio in London. Caroline's frequency in 1987.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They are all pretty bad but Evri takes the crown. Temp lad from the Royal Mail spent a couple of minutes trying to force a larve jiffy bag through our Victorian letterbox. Looked Terrified when I opened the door. When I asked why he didn't ring he said he could not find the door bell.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That email you get that tells you it is in the balance whether your online purchase will arrive or not...

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They had a stamp moistener and what people were coming up with was a joy. I remember using one when I was small. I had to go into the office with my mum in school holidays and would get given the job of putting stamps on the letters. I got a whole book token at the end of the week.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you. I am glad you remember it. Sadly she does little of that sort of thing now astge work was too unpredictable. Works as a Heritage officer for the Canal and River Trust. Here is another of her casts from a clay sculp.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I still have the one my daughter SJ made. Wire and air dry clay for the sculp, silicone mould material and resin to cast and gold paint. No AI required, just patience and talent.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When your son comes home clutching a copy of Love Supreme by John Coltrane

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Loving Awareness is a cat....is a cat...is a cat (Those who know...know)

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We do our best to be heard. Nobby VJG on 20 as GB9RCV first thing working VKs operating 100w into wires.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This weekend I have been mostly at SSB Field day. Home now as daughter is back today for a few days. Look out for M8C/P

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not as flash as that but currently viewing like its 1955 here. If I am watching something at night I find the the B&W CRT more relaxing.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am proud to say my daughter SJ (in profile pic) helped construct the Trojan horse that was a forward offensive in the battle to stop them taking BP money in 2020. Something that they have at least now done.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Currently I have both the kid's cats here. That one is Elvie. The other one is a black cat cat Gus

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Elvie, it is a stratcher not a bed ffs. You know, thing you do on the stair carpet, the LPs and the furniture and get sworn at about.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The schematic is on the net, I have just downloaded it. Probably a cap in the psu or something else trivial. Got to be worth a delve.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was blown away by it. Yes there were many concerts there. I am aware of Roy Harper, John Martyn, Sandy and Ralph McTell to name a few.

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Guy Roberts @bakeliteguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I live on the Corbett estate and the Plesaunce is such a sanctury 5 mins up the road. My 50th birthday present from my son was a one off bootleg of Sandy Denny Live at Well Hall.. He took the pictures, did the art work and got the records pressed. Only copy like it in the world.

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