Reposted by MartHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A Ladybird shop stand from about 1963. 840934
Reposted by MartRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/08/2026This Substack post is gloriously written and made me laugh out loud three times 1725165
Reposted by MartMarie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20/08/2026cc @andrewmale.bsky.social 5388
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Blew my mind visiting Jodrell Bank as a child. I still think it’s one of the most beautiful structures in Britain. 052
Reposted by MartJR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026MACCA GOES WEIRD! Join me on BBC 6Music’s The Freakzone Playlist at midnight, 6th August. I’ve selected plenty of Paul McCartney’s stranger things. Giddy for this to air. Reposts appreciated. Tune in, Paul! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social #6Music #PaulMcCartney 97938
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The New York skyline before curtain wall glass skyscrapers. 020
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I can see why Americans like this stuff, high-fiving novelty, “awesome job” and all that, but surely we piss taking Brits won’t tolerate such bollocks? Please let them end up in ditches, or upped on their backs like stuck sheep, corralled by traffic cones, graffitied beyond use and recognition. 110
Reposted by MartRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙 22678190
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Lovely bit of midsummer post through the letterbox this morning. Thanks John! @johnhiggs.bsky.social 051
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I think because it’s like being a Christian when Darwin pitched up. Everything we believe, the thing that gives meaning and structure to our existence, is being questioned. 010
Reposted by MartScarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 13/06/2026FOLLOW THE COUNTRY CODE: I adore this cool, jazzy early 70s PIF, with its swinging soundtrack and gorgeous UAP-style visuals. A miniature work of art! 89016
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Reminds me of that other great Yorkshireman, Alan Bennett. He describes visiting his mam in a care home. In a moment of lucidity she comes around and says to him “by, tha’s has some script out of me.” 140
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Always remember him on R4’s Today programme up against a minister arguing for the then upcoming smoking ban. “You’re dreary! You killed Bohemia!” “Dreary”, what a perfect insult. 010
Reposted by MartRónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Let love and colour into your life. Hold hands. 316735
Reposted by MartJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I've always been a little suspicious of calling any artist 'the greatest' as though there were some league table. But as the years passed, and the work continued it's restless advance, and the way of seeing never faltered, it became clear to me that David Hockney really was ours. RIP. 281111157
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026A little souvenir from a recent David Hockney exhibition. A great man, an inspiration, a life brilliantly lived. RIP. 061
Reposted by MartNagihan Haliloğlu @nhaliloglu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026because England's waters are full of shit, Grauniad had to invent wild sitting 2212
Reposted by MartNige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Day 8 of #75daysofPaddy A Paddy McAloon lyric a day until Truly Gifted Kids is published. Today (from One of the Broken): 'Hi, this is God here / Talking to me used to be a simple affair / Moses only had to see a burning bush / And he'd pull up a chair.' PS Happy birthday, Paddy #prefabsprout 2163
Reposted by MartTHE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 04/06/2026“Hey, wait a minute! This is grass! We’ve been eating grass!” 31091187
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Goodbye Lucille #1 One of the Broken Couldn’t Bear to Be Special Andromeda Heights Pearly Gates 031
Reposted by MartLissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I didn’t know this! Revelatory! The actual word apparently derives from the (French) sound of the block of print clicking into place… 48126
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A shameful episode in the history of our town, the Banishment of the Morris, but everyone was just sick of the bells and snot rags. 000
Reposted by MartMatt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes has to rank among the greatest casting coups in history. He's so good I sometimes believe in time travel. That someone went back in time and got Arthur Conan Doyle to invent Sherlock Holmes just so Jeremy Brett could play him a hundred years later. 5855657
Reposted by MartIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Can't remember who PSA'd this, but THANK YOU. It's not so much listening, more like being beautifully suffused. That voice, man. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - Episode 1 - BBC SoundsJames Joyce's autobiographical masterpiece, read by Andrew Scott. 1336
Reposted by MartJames @zemblamatic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Hildegard Von Bingen at a small chapel in the Palatinate of the Rhine around 1140. Absolutely wailing, real soul stuff 58820
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Of course I wouldn’t wish harm on these people who chose to live in Dubai but the more I hear about who they are it begins to feel a bit Golgafrinchan B Arc. 130
Reposted by MartIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 19/02/202619-02-26 Dear Charles Rex, if you wanted to save anything from the flaming wreckage of this ludicrous fucking gilded bollocks, may I suggest rescuing the NHS with all that hoarded royal wealth? Why you would win the nation's heart sir, ha ha you absolute wobbling fanny. Yours, A STATE PENSIONER 410321
Reposted by Mart🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Today, “why don’t you join the Foreign Legion / … / you’re still in love with Hayley Mills” might be one of the all-time great lyrics #nowplaying 231
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Seen him umpteen times but I was still very excited to get tickets to see one of my all time faves in Manchester. I was even more excited to get tickets today to see him just a short stroll from my front door. David Byrne in Halifax. Halifax! 282
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Love the colour and texture of this. Suburbia, Beatles, 1967, Liverpool; might be of interest to @iammilliam.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social ? 2195
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Non more comforting sight on a dark damp Monday in cheerless 2026.. 010
Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Well in these circs, best find an old pub and disappear into the past for a time. Pint? 370
Reposted by MartAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 19/12/2025To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them. 61103229
Reposted by MartPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 15/12/2025patreon.comI've no doubt that Paddy McAloon has written several Christmas songs that he has chosen not to share with the world... | Pete PaphidesGet more from Pete Paphides on Patreon 3269
