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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1h

I enjoyed the Ossie Clark / Celia Birtwell show at the Fashion & Textile Museum.

Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell at home with their cat

A room full of dummies dressed in Clark / Birtwell clothes

A chiffon shirt that was worn by Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve seen this sticker a few times but never fails to make me laugh. Encapsulates a lot about British football culture; a sense of place and history, humour but i would argue also shows a level of self deprecation.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 5h

The international break was so long that it feels like I’m on my way to the first match of the season. #TheFootball

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 21h

‘Disbelief that you could see a starry sky from London in the 1960s’ is a new and surprising development in “mad things Americans believe about London” – albeit obviously not as egregious as the ones about Sharia law, no-go zones, etc.

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Starry skies seen from a London rooftop?
Was that possible even 70 years ago?
I've been listening to *Being John Lennon* by Ray Connolly. According to one anecdote, one day at Abbey Road John accidently ingested LSD, and once he realized what he'd taken, he told the others he wasn't feeling well and they should carry on without him; he would sit and watch.
George Martin decided that what John needed was some fresh air, and being unaware that he was on acid, took John up to the roof.
According to how George Martin was quoted in the book, they witnessed beautiful starry skies from that rooftop. If it had just been John saying that I could just put it down to the drug, but the producer certainly never indulged.
Was it really possible that anyone in a city of almost eight million could see the stars? I lived in Los Angeles until 2014, and even after stricter emissions standards had significantly reduced the amount of visible air pollution, I was lucky if I could see more than a handful of stars
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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I read a lot on here about the importance of, and superiority of, art created by people over AI generated art. And I agree. But would *you* like to make some art? Are you free and in London on Friday 16 October? Then why not come to an event I’ve helped organise www.ticketsource.com/bloomsbury-c...

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"Making Art Together" at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church

Tickets are now available for Making Art Together at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London on Friday 16th October 2026 at 10:00AM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets...

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Eventually shop and call centre cooperated to sort it out.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This was resolved in classic GB2026 style, ie my parents went into an EE shop to be told that it could only be resolved over the phone, which they could do from the shop’s phone to the call centre, to be told by the call centre that it was best resolved by going into a shop.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@hulatommy.bsky.social Did you see this nonsense? I hope your mayoral policy platform will include ‘a return to dignified public pronouncements from the world’s leading Cathedral’.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Incredible to think that the golden age of comedy is behind us.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Autumn hits different now that rationing is over”

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As the Venerable Bede liked to say.

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We suit the golden glow *

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Historic England’ not ‘Historical’, FFS

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Something very weird about this era where all types of social media accounts post in the same tone. Historical England says that “golden hour hits different” at Durham Cathedral. What would St. Cuthbert think?

Screenshot of a Historic England Instagram post

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Discovered this evening that EE have been charging my mum £22/month for 1GB of mobile data and now I’m forming a vigilante group.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At secondary school we had a Christmas assembly in Durham Cathedral every year, and most years I’d get picked to ‘do a reading’. A safe choice in the pulpit. I always used to enjoy it, but obviously the venue spoiled me, and I don’t intend to revive my act in lesser venues now.

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just listened to Steve Davis’s favourite album, Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh, a French “rock opera concept album telling the story of a doomed Earth caught in endless war, and a prophet's prediction that sparks a large demonstration march by Earthlings to kill him.” Never again. 🇫🇷

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He was probably about 27 here.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Post-Punk-through-Baggy frontman we should have had.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even the Tate magazine didn’t make this show sound very appealing.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can get pretty good ones quite cheaply these days *helpful face*

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(He has moved even further away from the True Light*, on this tour, though. *playing songs from A River Ain’t Too Much To Love)

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bill Callahan and band were on good form at the cursèd Roundhouse tonight. Jim White is some kind of genius on them drums.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At the Roundhouse in Camden where, as ever, they appear to be putting on a ticketed event for the very first time.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Make sure she doesn’t reverse the charges when she calls!

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

William Eggleston at the Photographers’ Gallery soon! Real prints always look better than the digital versions but this is even more true with Eggleston. thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/wil...

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William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed

Celebrating 50 years since

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kwasi Kwarteng was spotted in a pub on our side of Greenwich Park the other week. Concerning times if his wing of the Tory party have escaped West Greenwich containment.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The now-closed LA home of the hottest improvised music of the 2020’s! This guy knows his Jeff Parker!

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I realise - to my surprise - that this isn’t something I actually do. Maybe I should. Make a change from air jazz drumming.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bring back ‘dignity’ as a general concept to public life.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#NowPlaying It’s going to be another big Jazz Flute Autumn. I can feel it.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just been shopping in Southend-on-Sea.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the “oh, I could do with a new pair of plain dark blue trousers… hang on they’re £250” menswear shops that Lamb’s Conduit St excels in (and to which I occasionally succumb).

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oo, that looks good. Had passed me by.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cel-e-brate snood times (come on!)

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bit warm for snoods at this point, but in a month or so I will be reactivating my snood.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

John Bramwell (him out of I Am Kloot) at Mycenae House in London’s fashionable Westcombe Park tonight. Enjoyable!

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really enjoyed that book, but it was painfully relatable in places.

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

End of an era in Woolwich

A couple of guys removing the signage from a WImpy restaurant

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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A man who used a home-made bomb to blow up an ULEZ camera in Sidcup has been jailed for 15 years at the Old Bailey. The explosion in Willersley Avenue damaged cars and property up to 100 metres away, including a child’s bedroom. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/10/02/u...

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Sidcup ULEZ bomber jailed for 15 years at Old Bailey - The Greenwich Wire

A man who used a home-made bomb to blow up an ULEZ camera in Sidcup has been jailed for 15 years at the Old Bailey.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wailing and gnashing of teeth heard from the ivory towers of Oxford and Cambridge as they miss out on the big prize again. #cafc

Insta post announcing Charlton Athletic’s ‘official higher education partner’ is the University of Greenwich. Again.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Relaxing into the weekend by, erm, taking two cats to the vets for their annual checkups and a teenager to the dental hygienist *at the same time*.

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