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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 21h

On a related topic, Kirklees Council has a 'Undeclaration of Climate Emergency' motion on the agenda for next week. Given Reform are a minority, it'll be interesting to see how the Conservatives vote. democracy.kirklees.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

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Agenda for Council on Wednesday 21st October 2026, 5.30 pm | Kirklees Council

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'Undeclaration of Climate Emergency' motion from the Reform group of Kirklees Council, for a vote next week. It looks like denying reality will involve a lot of near-term work in rewriting procedures and policies, as well as increasing long-term costs and risks.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We've been rewatching The Good Life, and just seen the episode where the Goods and the Leadbetters resolve a boundary dispute by getting absolutely slaughtered on peapod burgundy. One of the classics.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Last film of the LFF trip was The Fox, a delightfully rude Australian romantic comedy which draws equal inspiration from Japanese folktales and old sweary puppet shows. With the late great Sam Neill as an arsehole of a magpie.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it's not subtle though - the plot involves livestreamed executions to hammer home that this society is a totalitarian hellscape.

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

Hot Spot is a bracing headfuck - Polish-Greek scifi with 80s stylings, screeching gear shifts, and a fine sense of absurdity. Also, tigers. Would make a good Greece-as-future-dystopia double bill with Crimes of the Future.

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

Wicker is a very entertaining and heartwarming fable about medieval AI sexbots.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Devils is still an absolute banger, especially in restored 35mm. Also, for full effect, I recommend sitting two rows behind Vanessa Redgrave so you can see her chuckling through all her big scenes.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having a reread ahead of tonight's big born-again movie premiere. Reading Huxley's comments on public executions this morning just after checking the news seemed very synchronous.

The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. The basis for Ken Russell's The Devils.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You're a gentleman and a scholar.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mission accomplished! Am I still in time to reserve #3?

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Say hello to my favourite little guy at the Richard Dadd exhibition. Amazed to learn there are two versions of this insane masterpiece.

detail from The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, a worried-looking wee chap with a white beard.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks - I'll give Gosh and FP a try.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Morning! Did you manage to get me a copy of A Mischief of Magpies 2? If not, I can try a few shops while I'm in London. Ta!

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Blood Countess is ridiculous fun. Kind of like a Wes Anderson giallo with a Eurovision twist.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I realise it's not the point, but if I did find myself under fire in no man's land, I'd probably rather be in a foxhole than not.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Main crop spuds - at least some survived the badger depredations. Also, with great effort, dug out a recalcitrant gooseberry bush which has produced barely a handful of edible fruit over the past dozen years.

a dozen or so potatoes of varying types and sizes.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huggy Bear definitely did talk shows - infamously, The Word!

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TFW you pick a book to read on the train to London, and realise you must have last read it on a train to London 24 years previously.

Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal, with old train ticket used as a bookmark.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

depends on context, but I'd probably stumble and wonder if it was meant to be Angela or Angelica.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm still recovering from hearing someone in the pub say their first Doctor was Matt Smith.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That does remove the biggest reason why I didn't vote for them in the last few national elections. Let's hope they don't do owt else daft.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Askham Bog, home to 250-year-old royal ferns, bearded foxes, and other delights. Stopped off on Saturday en route to the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social awards.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's the combination of pun and Pixies reference that makes it very on-brand. (Or is that two Pixies references, if it's a comic about a superhero called Tony?)

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's cute that The Economist thinks the worst thing about 'effective altruism' is that it might lead to central planning.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reading about Austryn Wainhouse, industrious American translater of de Sade and Reage; and wondering if he was any relation to John Wainhouse, the man behind Halifax's most notorious erection ("Octagonal tower with a flamboyant and fantastical Renaissance head" - Pevsner)

vintage postcard of Wainhouse Tower in Halifax

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

whisky smoked bacon! Tasted like posh Frazzles. Served with a smoked black lager.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they do, to be fair, taste very much like cucumber.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

very popular in China, apparently. They were pretty refreshing, with no salt. Paired with a light pale ale as a mid-menu palate cleanser.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

can recommend the Spanish jamon ones which were part of the tasting evening.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it wasn't a blind tasting. The least familiar flavour, cucumber, would probably have been the easiest to guess, as they did very much taste like cucumber.

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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

Big thanks to Chris Marsden for archive digging, and to @huddersfield.exposed for first posting about Robeson's visits earlier this year. I might be writing something shortly.

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

Robeson had previously visited King's Mill in March 1938, where he was reportedly persuaded to sing a few bars of Ol' Man River with the mill girls. Robeson was an old friend of the mill manager, George Brown, from their university days in the US. The Browns lived for a while in our house.

Paul Robeson Among the Girls - photo and short story from Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 21 March 1939

Mr. Paul Robeson in Huddersfield - from Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 20 March 1939

Paul Robeson and the Autograph Hunters - Huddersfield & Holmfirth Examiner, 25 March 1939

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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'.