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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's urban ramble taking in the Amaze charity book benches. For more information visit amazesussex.org.uk/thestorytrail/

A book bench, Brighton station, entitled Andromeda.

Birds And Other Stories, St Peter's Church.

You Are The Star Of Your Own Story Too, Jubilee Library.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Niche Brighton graffiti, and if I'm honest, not one of Banksy's finest.

A scribbled picture of a loaf of Hovis, Brighton.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My 9 albums #my9albums www.my9albums.com/s/l22vyNnMwo

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra
Jeff Wayne's Musical War Of The Worlds
Singles: 45s And Under - Squeeze
Welcome Too The Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes Too Hollywood
So - Peter Gabriel
Mars Audio Quintet - Stereolab
Ladies Aged Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized®
13 - Blur
St Vincent - St Vincent

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's walk: Hassocks /Wolstonbury / Hurstpierpoint loop.

Alpaca in front of Danny, a residential home art Wolstonbury.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have always loved Alexei Sayle's Stuff from the day it was first transmitted. Currently on a rewatch I can't help thinking that for all its 'alternative comedy' just how... Pythonesque it all is.

All three series of Alexei Sayle's Stuff on DVD. I'm simpering because years ago I bought each series for about a fiver and then gave them away. Still, at least I know now I've got a little nest egg if I decide to sell them again.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Album of the moment by Adult DVD. A heady mix of (early) Prodigy, Blur, Happy Mondays, Hi NRG, Underworld. Noice.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I couldn't wait, so have bought them instead (series 2 is in the post).

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I shouldn't really be eating a whole packet of these 'Maltesers', but since they're #vegan they're effectively plant based and therefore a vegetable. Right?

Sainsbury's Free From vegan maltesers. They're very good.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's how you spend an enjoyable Sunday afternoon, listening to a 1936 organ play along to silent films: a Felix the Cat cartoon, Laurel and Hardy's Big Business (1929), and Buster Keaton's The Scarecrow (1920). Part of Brighton's Heritage Open Day.

1936 pipe organ on stage at the Brighton Dome.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've entered a discussion at work about "approved scrubbers" for using an AI tool to anonymise personal data before it is shared, and all I can think of is this:

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I always welp a little when the camera pans and you see the Western Pier.

A still from Doctor Who, The Leisure Hive, part one. The TARDIS in the foreground, a sleeping Doctor in a deckchair with the Western Pier in the background, filmed on Brighton beach, 1980.

The Western Pier now, a burnt frame, if that.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What have I done? I shouldn't have alcohol as drunk purchases happen. I've just bought a copy of Death Comes To Time. (I seem to be working my way through questionable Doctor Who audios as I'm currently listening to Ghosts Of N-Space.)

Doctor Who - Death Comes To Time depicting artistic depictions of Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Fry and John Sessions.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UPDATE: I'm listening to The Ghosts Of N-Space for the first time (don't judge me). Of COURSE the Castilo has a library which foretells strange ghostly goings on. Not sure I understood what else happened.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So pleased to see the second volume of @davidbrunt.bsky.social's Production Diaries is published imminently (especially given what's going on at the Beeb's Written Archive). The first volume was such a treasure trove of facts! Tho at over 700 pages, think I might have to tackle this one in chunks.

The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years by David Brunt

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So folks, looking at you @accordingtojond.bsky.social, have I got a good deal? £45 for all three from Brighton Open Market. It's an early birthday present to myself (my birthday is next month).

Three early Penguin paperbacks: The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II and Quatermass And The Put.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I need to know what The Orange Seaweed sounded like.

A poster showing weekly Sunday Club lineups for Hastings Pier from 1967:
6 August - The Kinks
13 August - Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mitch and Titch
20 August - Pink Floyd
27 August - Tremeloes
3 September - Small Faces
Resident support group: The Orange Seaweed

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Next in the series of dramas I have never seen before, A Perfect Spy starring Peter Egan.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't think I can heartily recommend anything greater than listening to Grace Cummings' new album Bloodhorse! GO ON!

The album cover for Bloodhorse! by Grace Cummings depicts a doll's head.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's walk: Ribblehead viaduct loop.

View across the Yorkshire Dales towards the Ribblehead viaduct.

Looking up at one of the arches of the Ribblehead viaduct.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today's walk: Ingleton loop along the Turbury Road to Yordas Cave.

A dry stone wall. Who doesn't love a dry stone?

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today's walk: along the River Eden in Langwathby, Cumbria, having travelled there on the Settle to Carlisle railway.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Further photos of the Ingleton waterfalls trail.

Landscape, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales.

Ingleton, looking back towards Lancashire hills.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today's walk: Ingleton waterfalls trail. I've taken some footage of running water just in case anyone has forgotten what it sounds or looks like.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'nt it great when you read prose that is so poetic? Even though I'm off to Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales for a few days hiking, I've chosen something about the South Downs for my reading matter. For fans of Nick Hayes or Robert MacFarlane.

The Rising Down: Lives In A Landscape by Alexandra Harris.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

R.I.P. William Orbit. Produced the best Blur album.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I promise I'll stop harping on about Nick Cave's gig last night, but not today. These stunning pictures have just been shared with me from someone on Threads. c/o Hugo Healey.

A packed Preston Park, Brighton, last night. Around 50,000 saw Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

A packed Preston Park, Brighton, last night. Around 50,000 saw Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. A glorious sunset on the horizon.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That. Was. Phenomenal. Incredible. Poignant. Crazy. So much energy. Who knew Nick Cave was such a cool dancer. KYLIE! I had a lump in my through during Mercy Seat. English Teacher were ace. Still don't get Flaming Lips.

Backdrop of Nick Cave looking out to the Preston Park crowd

Another shot of tonight's concert with Nick Cave in a big screen.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BLOODY HELL!! She only went and bloody turned up!!!

Nick Cave and Kylie from tonight's Brighton gig

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This bucket hat speaks for us all.

Someone wearing a bucket hat festooned with the word cunt

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can I just say how much I'd have liked to have been a fly on the wall in this room when this meeting took place. (I don't think this is AI despite them all seeming as though they are smiling!)

A picture of Nick Cave, Mark E Smith and Shane McGowan.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Richard Hammond is looking more like the Master every day. #DoctorWho

The Master as played by Anthony Ainsley with James Matt and Jeremy Clarkson.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post Office towers at half mast today. R.I.P. Bill Oddie.

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