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Netherton Foundry @nethertonfoundry.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thanks to our friends at House of Charcoal, we have a fabulous prize for you to win: a set of our BBQ tools + a House of Charcoal Fire Bundle comprising 3 bags of charcoal, smoking chips & flamer starters Follow us, share this post & find entry details here www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/competitions

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Why is it so flamin’ hard to find shows you add to watchlists in ANY streaming app? I know the algorithm wants to push other stuff at me, but it’s a fundamentally broken pattern if you can’t go quickly to something you’ve “favorited” or bookmarked for later!

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Brought up short by a glimpse of red through the trees, I found a field full of poppies. Surprised by beauty… and now I do know what it means, #TeardropExplodes fans…

A first glimpse of a field of red poppies through the trees

A widescreen lanorama of a blanket of scarlet poppies thrown over a field near Sheffield

Close up of bright red poppies by the path through a nearby field

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Band Candy. Buffy 3.6. No notes. RIP Tony Head. Footnote: how well written and well played was that show in its pomp? @janeespenson.bsky.social

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Somewhere in this picture are four astronauts aboard Integrity…

The moon rising above the horizon in Sheffield, between two electricity transmission pylons

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“We’re in a physics-defying, entirely unstable death-trap” is a line I can enjoy imagining being delivered by Egon, Ray or Peter, in entirely different but equally valid ways…

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The Wolfram and Hart of construction partnerships seem to be building the corner penthouse at spook central in plain sight on Notting Hill Gate…

A poster on wooden construction site siding declaring this project is being delivered by Beltane and Midgard

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Odd that this BBC article announcing Steven Knight will write the next Bond film completely ignores the fact that as well as Peaky Blinders, he’s also behind the BBC’s own SAS Rogue Heroes, which I would have though was a much more nailed-on 007 precursor. What odds on Connor Swindells as Bond now?

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Seal of disapproval… (Photo credit: M. Merrett)

The head of a young silver-grey seal giving a hard stare rising from wavelets on the surface of a dark grey seal giving. The seal has magnificent whiskers.

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If that Raye set-ending banger wasn’t an audition for the next Bond theme, I don’t know what is…

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 05/03/2025

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Colorful art and accessories displayed in a collage.

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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No second state visit for Trump

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Next one of the Roy Cross tribute vignettes is pretty much done: in this case, Tazio Nuvolari at the wheel of an early 60s cast metal Auto-Kit of a 1932 Alfa Romeo P3

A red 1930s racing car numbered 12, the driver wearing a yellow jersey, pale leather helmet and goggles, mounted an a base reproducing the cover of a 1963 Eagle comic

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

OK, #Bsky collective… when did the “thief” protagonist become a thing? I think of Raffles or Lupin, but is there a prototype hero(ine) who is a sneaky, lurk in the shadows, do difficult tasks kind of person, who the whole point of is you don’t notice them? @scalzi.com ? @johnrogers.bsky.social ?

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Having now finished Slow Horses Seapn 4… I did not realise how much I needed someone to write the cross between Thursday Murder Club, Smiley’s People and The Prisoner set in the retirement home for Service folk who know too much

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I rather like the Oooh-Type, and those who are complaining about the colours clearly don’t recognise Opalescent Silver Blue, the best shade for any Jag. Or Heather, but the less said about that the better. Not sure why an all electric platform needs a bonnet big enough to hide a straight-12, though.

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It does seem like the North Yorkshire Police are now literally going to have to investigate “Who are all the pies..?”

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Roy Cross, doyen of Airfix box artists, reached 100 and passed away this year. As a tribute to his influence on thousand of model making kids (and adults) we decided to make some models in the shape of his artworks. Mine are based on a series of covers he painted for the Eagle comic in the early 60s

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

It hadn’t occurred to me before how much Orange Juice were the cheerful version of The Smiths…

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Top marks to whoever is responsible for the Eiffel Toureography

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Of course, this is when Lupin will pull off his most audacious caper…

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Finished the Fujimi Lotus Esprit as the car from The Spy Who Loved Me, and stole some photography set-ups from the Road Rat’s 50th anniversary article in the last but one issue

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Surely somebody somewhere is lining up the headline “Kop Klopp Slot Swap”…?

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cmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Help! Trying to remember the title of a children’s book I read back in the day. It involves kids on holiday in big old house, legends of dragons (or “worms”), finding old midwinter Mummers play costumes, and eventually the dragon revealed as an ancient earthwork in the landscape by snow. Any ideas?

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