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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 2h

Very merry evening of guided beer and crisp tasting, part of the Huddersfield International Crisp Festival.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 5h

Also looks good at night.

the refurbished Queensgate market at night.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sex Pistols weren't the biggest stars to play a children's party in Huddersfield. On 28 November 1958, Paul Robeson sang at a Children's Thanksgiving Day Party at King's Mill. According to the Examiner, Robeson quietly crooned Loch Lomond to 'forty children of many nationalities'.

"Paul Robeson At A Party" - clipping from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 29 November 1958

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Passed by my favourite local portal. I'm sure adventure lies beyond, but who would dare enter?

low green graffitied door set in a stained stone wall, part blocked by a dangling helix of razor wire.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oven drying a few of the Armageddon chillies as a test. There are a lot of them and they are, let's say, challenging to cook with.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Craster, renowned for its distinctive harbour and overwhelming reek of kippers, and the lovely walk to Dunstanburgh Castle.

Brutalist construction at the end of Craster harbour wall (originally part of stone-loading equipment), with Dunstanburgh Castle in the distance

Smoke billows from the roof of the kipper curing house. Be grateful this isn't smellovision.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's 1986, and Alan Moore is ripping the piss out of the solar model of the atom and crappy marketing design. "Uh, well, it means, like, atoms, atomic power, like that..." It's 2026, and the UK nuclear industry unveils its new stakeholder engagement campaign.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chillingham Castle - quite the oddest stately home I've visited. The owner, an antique-dealing baronet, carried out a controversial renovation and filled it with odd stock, personal papers, and notes complaining about his "politically-correct son". It felt like stepping into a Simon Raven novel.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Various birds and creatures of Lindisfarne, earlier this month.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had an early look round Queensgate Square and the new library. Pretty nice.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoyed the Pulp movie, but now dealing with the realisation that it’s about 34 years since I first saw them perform Sheffield: Sex City on some late night ITV pop programme. #HelpTheAged

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got hands-on with one of the very early-70s fibreglass decorative panels from the Piazza (now being demolished). There are approximately 548 of these. Chris Marsden has so far saved five.

tall white fibreglass panel with a futurist/primitivist moulded design

close up of the panel showing the moulded design

sticker on the reverse of the panel showing date of production - 12-8-71

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t know how I missed this -

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really enjoyed this absolute monster - almost 1000 dense ragged pages of aristocratic fascists, lowlifes, Victorian interspecies eugenicists, James Jesus Angleton, cabals, conspiracies, heavy petting zoos, herbalists, haslet, Himmler's bog body, and Harold Wilson. Ideal holiday reading, in short.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Those Lindisfarne boat sheds again, in varying states of repair. I was a bit disappointed by the bookshop - not many books, and even less headroom. I could just about sit down comfortably.

Two boat sheds by Lindisfarne Castle, one housing the National Trust bookshop.

Barely standing boat shed, looking about as ruined as the priory beyond.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gertrude Jekyll's walled garden for Lindisfarne Castle, early September. Lovely spot, even if Jekyll was partly responsible for spreading Japanese knotweed in the UK.

wide view across the walled garden towards Lindisfarne Castle

wide view diagonally across the walled garden.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Letah Wood, near Hexham - lovely fungus-rich old woodland.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Made some new friends at the Dilston Physic Garden.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A masterclass in how to make your Nazi character really despicable.

The first time Ernst Stech-Pelz was offered Yorkshire pudding he assumed that it was the cooked by-product of a wool mill, shoddy perhaps, or something akin.
(Jonathan Meades, Empty Wigs)

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Scenes from a short walk around Heavenfield.

lone sheep in a freshly mown field across the valley

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Booked a fun weekend at the London Film Festival next month: Blood Countess The Devils Wicker Hot Spot The Fox

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At a BBC event yesterday. I can neither confirm nor deny any casting rumours.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoyed The Death of Robin Hood, even if Kirklees was cruelly written out of the story. Points for giving Hathersage a mention, though. And between this and 28 Years Later, I do wonder if Jodie Comer has a thing about assisted dying.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Loud bloke at the next table, taking video calls in a restaurant, soon declares himself as a blackshirt supporter. Patrick Hamilton was right.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

aoelian bamboo flutes, Dilston Physic Garden.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some of Annie Montgomerie's Missies and Nippers at YSP - "a tender emotional space between childhood and adulthood" or pure nightmare fuel?

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also enjoyed Andi Walker's Wrapped in Cold Hard Comfort, a new work in slate and chaise longue.

Taking the form of an articulated slate quilt draped over a chaise longue, the sculpture challenges assumptions around softness, pliability, and domesticity traditionally associated with textiles.

By working with slate as their material, Walker emphasises contrasting qualities of weight, hardness and discomfort. The physical act of stitching into its resistant surface is a metaphor for resilience, mirroring the daily persistence required by those living with chronic illness, disability, or adversity. As the work weathers and elements of it gradually disintegrate, it also reflects on permanence in outdoor sculpture.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Glad I caught LR Vandy's Rise exhibition at YSP before it closes this month. I'm not even going to make any jokes about old rope or bobbins.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spotted a new addition to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park collection - maybe a Barry Hines tribute?

Kestrel perched on the head of Sophie Ryder's Sitting at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Closer shot of a kestrel perched on a Sophie Ryder

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Still working through Le Salon des Horreurs, and tickled by the mistranslation of 'cathartic' in 'sans doute une collision catarrhique'. That makes it sound really unpleasant.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My first homegrown Armageddon chilli. So proud!

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Heritage crafts' are great and all, but their viability as a trade does generally depend on the continued existence of a suitably large and wealthy middle class to buy the products. And that's at massive risk from AI capitalism. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

theguardian.com

AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Still a lot of damage from last year's fire on Castle Hill. Though I'm sure it was worse when the hillfort was fired and vitrified c500BCE.

burnt gorse in front of the Victoria Tower, Castle Hill, Huddersfield

Red poppies and other low growth amid burnt gorse

Remains of burnt bushes, sweeping westward vista beneath a glowering sky

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sympathies and solidarity with former colleagues at Sheffield.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Really enjoyed Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, even if I did have to grit my teeth and pay Everyman prices. Definitely the kind of romantic comedy I can get behind.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 20/08/2026