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Christopher Todd

@cjtoddy.bsky.social
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I’m in Norwich and I draw little people and they’re usually morris dancers. Someone said I was affable.

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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We learn dances. Brand new dances. The first night of a new morris dancing practice season with Kemp’s Men Of Norwich. The new dance was Gallant Hussar, Bledington, so not really new but it had been out of the repertoire since before my time.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think there are a lot of squashes being sold as decorative objets, not grown with the kitchen in mind.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have you seen the old Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in Leicestershire, now storing 25,000 cars on the tarmac?
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today I have injured myself on an indoor crazy golf course.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very much enjoying watching a brass band at Yalm food hall in Norwich, for Oktoberfest, demonstrating the actions to Do-Re-Mi.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even though it’s one of Facebook’s most original, core (above board) purposes, it’s very odd to know that you’re appearing to a stranger, day after day, at the top of their friend suggestions.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Peacock book, one of Penguin’s rarer sidelines.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Promises by Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders. Sometimes I need a serene drone to get settled into things and I haven’t been deploying this album enough.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I spent Friday making food for an event on Saturday. Declared the gingerbread a failure. Then I was sick on Saturday and couldn’t go to the event. I ate one of the quiches. Husband could take the pastries to school today. Now he’s sick and off work. I’m eating the pastries myself.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t believe I keep getting Stephen Frears and Michael Frayn mixed up, like an idiot.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A little trip to meet Knobbly Bob, the sweet chestnut tree.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finding an unexpected parallel between the new Sense & Sensibility last night and a rewatch of Robot Dreams this evening.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was talking about this just this week. It can’t happen in the present day without some explanation of the valuables being handed off, otherwise we’re all thinking about the follow-up.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I guess I went a little crazy, huh?” I’ve booked for a matinée of Thelma & Louise the musical next month.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Love it when health service staff silently decide that an interaction is over and busy themselves at their computer screen, apparently hoping that you’ll shuffle off now.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“All severed with chips”. It’s things like this that inspire the creative, off-beat horror films of today.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of my most Web 1.0 tendencies is that I want to listen to podcasts by going to a webpage.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A map of a morris tour this summer, in and around Rutland. It’s somewhat inexact. All those roads, rivers, railways and county borders converge at Stamford and it gets complicated.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Finally seeing Stowmarket after drawing a map of it, for the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust’s annual Traditional Music Day. I danced too.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Piddington’s off.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yikes, “We think, you eat” sounds a bit dystopian and corp-bestrode. Getcha slop, cattle.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The burnt gorse patches and scorched trees on Mousehold Heath in Norwich, after the wildfire last month.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Notes from Orlando. Virginia Woolf loved six seven.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On Private Eye’s podcast a week ago, Ian Hislop kicked off the book recommendations with The Faber Book Of Reportage (1996). Faber’s product page already has his quote and says it’s re-printing. Now I’m curious about podcast influence, sudden demand and the route from recommendation to reprint.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lily and Andrew on a life full of morris dancing, with footage from Pride in London (and a brief shot of me sewing in Berkeley Square). www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5k2...
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The Bells of Belonging: Queering the path for Morris dancing
YouTube video by Hannah Bramsden
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The third can’t be made by simply combining the first two (so no to brandy butter).
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sometimes the shopping list includes cream, cheese and cream cheese. Today it’s sand, paper and sandpaper. There should be a name for these.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It came with a cream tea!
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In Cambridge this evening to teach a group of Icelandic teenagers morris dancing.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Chisel and mallet to clear a buildup of ice in the fridge.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Con: Narrow surface of sloping gravel on which we stirred dust up and hoped not to chip the cars (especially a Hillman Super Minx), all while competing with the church bells in the humid air. Pro: Plentiful audience, fourteen dancing members, delightful dog water dispenser, free rolls from the pub.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
After today’s depressing news about Reform’s diktat to Norfolk libraries, I loved seeing this very thorough Pride display in the window of the Co-op Funeralcare on Unthank Road.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Unapproved heritage signage on a street in Norwich. Citation needed. Henry’s 8th Wives. Is this drunk history?
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Cursed to have only biros that need a warm-up scribble every time.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m just sitting sewing buttons in the rain.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
At rest upon an anchor, with mayonnaise bucket, after sea swimming and land morris dancing, Horsey, Norfolk.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I rang a bell to summon a ferryman.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I was warned of a surprise. For a brief moment I thought it was going to be Michael Hesseltine.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hogarth’s “Gin Lane” but it’s just empty BuzzBallz in gutters.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The year 1972.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Hello I am in a barrow.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This Cotswolds pub is too busy, so I’m outside, spotting pre-Worboys signage.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is that poster about Sardinia or Portugal? Oh, it’s a lamination breach not yet total.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I was wondering if I’m in the north or the midlands and then someone called me duck.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Early to the dance-out after stopping at a branch library.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Crunch cabinet”. Where my grandparents brought the crisps and crackers out from.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trailers at an Odeon (The Sheep Detectives): Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie Charlie The Wonderdog Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom Minions & Monsters Power Ballad Masters Of The Universe The Mandalorian And Grogu Trailers at a Picturehouse (The Christophers): Pressure Tuner Orphan Brunello
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Picking a film on iPlayer, I considered Farewell, My Lovely (1944) but chose Get Carter (1971)… to find Michael Caine reading a paperback of Farewell, My Lovely on his opening credits rail journey.
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Christopher Todd @cjtoddy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Six dancers at Fiveways.
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