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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nevertheless, I shall be pouring one out for these lads later on

B&W photo of marchers baring a banner saying ‘JARROW CRUSADE’

It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I rather enjoyed ‘The Shape of Water’ but it’s getting a bit much that every lovecraftian fish monster thing now has to morph into tedious romance

Shot from ‘Cold ‘Skin’ of a beardy guy in a boat

Shot from ‘Cold ‘Skin’ of a hot guy getting ready to go fishing

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is it St. Swithin’s Day already?’’

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Resident Evil is an absolute blast, cured my headache and everything

The puppydog eyes and chunky knitware of Austin Abrams in the new ‘Resident Evil’ film

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unbelievably embarrassed to find out what Newcastle NYE event is called now

Howaymanay is back
Newcastle's biggest New Year's Eve party is returning to the Quayside this year.

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Billy Liar has crossed my path for the first time and what do you mean this was directed by the same guy who did Midnight Cowboy?

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Newcastle has looked like Silent Hill for most of the day, excellent evening to try out a Lovecraftian fishing game

The ship from Dredge, entering a harbour town

The creepy fishmonger who buys my shitty fish

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had some lamb chops to use up, did them in a lemon and marjoram marinade before going a tad overboard on the extras. Corn salad, chilli jam, black beans, flatbread, guac charred spinach and cheese. Now I am very full and my kitchen smells amazing and I’m trying not to look at the dishes.

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just rediscovered that I put an extra bottle of white wine in the freezer ‘just to cool it a little’ about one in the morning

A bottle of white wine frozen completely solid

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just saw the words ‘no masks enforced orgy’ in the wild and now I can’t stop thinking about Danny DeVito in Always Sunny

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really need to make that pasta but Alain Delon is idly played a piano with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and I don’t think I can risk standing up for at least ten minutes

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like how France has turned into Silent Hill

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was going to chill after work, make some pasta, maybe watch an episode of Futurama, but Canal+ have lured me in with another Alain Delon heist movie

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bought this on a whim while waiting for the train this morning, it’s pretty good

Stephen Moss, ‘Mrs Moreau's Warbler - How Birds Got Their Names’

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back, what a lovely way to spend a Monday

Newcastle central station in the evening

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Man the crush I had on this cheeky fucker of a policemanwhen I was twelve

Robert Carlyle and the dog from Hamish Macbeth

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BBC has stuck the first series of True Detective on iPlayer

I lied, this is actually Robert Carlyle and Ralph Riach in ‘Hamish Macbeth’

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quick glimpse of Warkworth from the train, wishing I’d had a final pint there now

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Craster in the evening smells of smoking fish, I enjoyed walking through but if I lived here and it was like that all the time I’d be livid

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wish they were still here, for me to make deliberate eye contact with, while I eat this very slowly and with great satisfaction

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kippers purchased. Now relaxing with a nice pint and waiting for my ‘jolly fishboard’ and trying to ignore that I just heard a guy declare ‘the west is full!’ in an argument in the next room

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing like a nice castle to bring out my resting bitch face

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler / Mr King Edward III?

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The walk to Dunstanburgh Castle

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am 44 years old and still think of The Famous Five every time I walk down this road

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This was a sign, I wonder what filth HarperCollins just found out, and how did a middle class family from Heaton know first?

‘Breaking News: HarperCollins has dropped the backlist of children's author David Walliams, The Bookseller understands.’

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Subscribed to a streaming service that exclusively shows Eastern European cinema* and now I'm not sure if I want to watch an eerie 70s Estonian horror, a 60s Latvian countercultural musical drama, or a Soviet adoption of 'Sherlock Holmes' first.

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Tyneside are really treating us for National Cinema Weekend. Kiki’s Delivery Service? The Star Trek film with the whales? A Hong Kong action film starring Chow Yun-Fat that’s part three of a trilogy I’ve never seen? Oh good god yes.

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Being straight sounds exhausting

"I want you to do your best to pronounce these words," one woman asks her boyfriend in a clip viewed more than 8.8m times. He gamely nails his first attempt, reading off the herb "thyme". But he's less successful with "epitome", "challah" and "fuchsia". ("Foo-chia?" he guesses). "Conscientious" and "faux pas" also prove tricky. He ends up with a score of five out of 17, or 29% - very much a failing grade.

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not to go all October Core on you but check out these bad boys

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First proper day back it work, it’s been a long day but happily I have @filmstories.bsky.social to persuade me to watch a film I haven’t seen or thought about in years

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mind, these are my wild bank holiday plans, so maybe the universe is telling me something

New copy of ‘Cadfael’ and an orange soda on a cafe table

A terrier called Joni sitting on my knee in a hammock

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It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve lived to see a day when a Pedro Almodóvar film with a male stripper as a principal character does not contain a single, visible penis. The future is not what I dreamt it would be.