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CTipps

@ctipps.bsky.social
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Film lover seeking fellow cinephiles. Also music, literature, politics, comedy, food, nature, science, education, environment, hiking, and other delights. Worked in HE for 20+ years. Cotswold based, Bristol inclined, Cornish by design.

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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Sex, Dolly & Bob.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched One stone cold classic, one passable origin story, one quintessentially English quirk-fest and one for the incomparable Dolly Parton 😭
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That was pretty much my experience
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Time for #LetterboxdFriday! For your delectation, my #LastFourWatched...
Four film posters: Colossal, Minions & Monsters, Timestalker, A Private Life
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched A good batch. 3 newbies, 1 all-time favourite, 1 cinema trip with some seriously big chuckles...
4 film posters: Tenet, Eagles of the Republic, School of Rock, The Invite.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky I, Dolours (2018) I Swear (2025) Sunshine (2007) How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) Two re-watches, a classic & a contemporary blast. No cinema sadly.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Pound coin included for scale. I regret to inform you it was still alive. Nothing to be done😭
A tiny pipistrelle bat inadvertently stuck to a pheromone moth trap.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today I have mostly been bottling my elderflower cordial, after a 4 day brew...
Picture of 9 glass bottles filled with homemade elderflower cordial.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
F*ck you 2026 & your relentless grim weather and news. I shall eat my way out of this....
A plate with 2 poached eggs on toast plus sliced avocado and a cluster of halved cherry tomatoes.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
...myself to death.
Cover of The Wine Society magazine saying "What to drink 2026"
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And this is what happens when you boil it #littlecluckers 2/2
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Oddity of my week - when one of our chickens lays an egg that doesn't have a fully formed shell. Very pleasing to play with & surprisingly robust #littlecluckers 1/2
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Amazingly, I still have a copy. No recollection of when or where I acquired it. Will have to re-read as I'd *completely* forgotten this glorious nugget.
Book cover of 'Censored' by Tom Dewe Mathews
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I mean I'm not Catholic, but I would definitely be interested in taking confession with Father December. Pick your month!
Back of 2026 Calendar depicting 12 images of handsome Catholic priests.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So my friends went to Rome and brought me back a 2026 Calendar of Hot Priests for my birthday 😳🤣
Front cover of "Calendario Romano 2026" depicting handsome Catholic priest.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Some major league egg disparity amongst our flock. Might try turning them off & on again....
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Nice to know a fellow Blue-skyer was in the same crowd.
Image of Badly Drawn Boy on stage at EartH in Hackney.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A pic of me on my Mum's lap circa 1970/71. My sister in floral glory next to us. She was (and is) quite the Super Mum. Here's to all the others. Happy Mothering Sunday ❤️
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Gotta love an egg-glut. Thank you lovely hens for the double tortilla joy.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Lots of great tree action today. Can't select a favourite. Taken on the edge of the Cornbury Estate on the edge of Charlbury in glorious sunshine with huge numbers of deer mooching about. #Treeoftheday
Two huge (oak?) trees set against blue sky & huge herd of deer, with shadows speading out beneath.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
#Treeoftheday more for the location than anything else. Trelissick Gardens in lovely Cornish sunshine.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Haven't rated any trees recently because weather has been sh*t. Plus I am consumed by existential dread due to world events. Here instead is a lovely pic of our chickens, taken in December. Normal service resumes when/if the sun reappears.....
1 brown and 6 white chickens in dappled winter sunshine, clustered next to their wooden henhouse.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Which is more than you can say for the one on the other side of the road....
Storm damaged tree with split trunk and upturned root ball.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
#Treeoftheday Idless Valley, Truro. Miraculously survived all the storms...
Huge tree leaning over a hedge with blue sky & green fields behind.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#Treeoftheday at the foot of Kenwyn Church steps, Truro.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This brunch is not f*cking about......
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Dug around in my (v small!) vinyl collection & found these beauties. Shame I no longer have a record player....!
Picture of 5 Bob Dylan LPs (Desire, Blonde on Blonde, Another Side of.., Highway 61 Revisited & Greatest Hits) plus Very Best of Joan Baez.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
An amazing sight; the Cedar of Lebanon at Blenheim. My #Treeoftheday (now known as the Harry Potter tree....)
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My current reading. Shockingly my first Le Carré, though likely not my last given how much I'm enjoying this one. Yes, I saw the TV version first, but the extra texture & detail here is glorious. Other author trending today - consigned to hell. If you know, you know....
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#Treeoftheday - admittedly in chunks in my kitchen, but still....
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#Treeoftheday Yealm Estuary.....just before the rainstorm.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
And #Treeoftheday no.2...
Old fat tree in a Devon field with gnarly branches.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Had two good ones on a walk in Devon today. So here's #TreeoftheDay no.1....
Huge, ancient tree with beautiful long branches and exposed roots.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#TreeoftheDay
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Woke up to a Winter Wonderland 😀
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
#Treeoftheday
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Tree of the day.
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
More autumnal joy. With added dog joy 😊
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And some good popping Autumn colours 😍
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Some good fluffy Simpsons-esque clouds today....
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A delightful surprise in the post (forgot I'd pre-ordered it 🤣) Wish more comedy/Taskmaster types were on this platform......
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CTipps @ctipps.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
A flash of blue in an otherwise grey day. A good stomp across the fields. Some random Dexter cows looming out of a hedge. Looking forward to The Mirror & the Light on iPlayer later. Have deactivated X/Twitter. Seriously, f*ck those guys.
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