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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“You illiterate pinecone” #chefskiss

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What have you got against Eastern Europeans? Racist

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Real hope looks like action" - er, wot?

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That expression was retired years ago

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mr Mullett, Head of Oldershaw, assembled us to tell us that he had invited mountaineer Chris Bonnington to attend the annual prize giving. After listing CB's achievements, he read his own lengthy, grovelling request, and Bonnington's more succinct reply, declining the offer.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wandering round Southport I couldn’t help thinking of the Morrissey song Every day is like Sunday which initially made me smile, then made me think about Morrissey, which made me cross. Hawthorne said “Southport is as stupid a place as I ever lived in” and I saw no reason to disagree

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Picture this. It is September, 1856. Southport, Lancashire, Nathaniel Hawthorne is walking along the prom. “Yesterday, a man stark naked was seen dipping a lady. Oh, decorous English!”

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OTD in 1965 Paul Simon was sitting in the railway station (Widnes), had a ticket for his destination (Hull), and wrote Homeward Bound. Or did he? Read all about it: liverpoolmiscellany.blogspot.com/2024/03/home...

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Homeward bound

From TripAdvisor: a query about a Liverpool restaurant where you could get a decent three course meal for half a crown leads to a reminiscen...

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, the kids have been back at school for a couple of weeks now

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And He didn’t even mention the golf

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is the time for your move to begin / I have no need to prolong the game / It has been a good game that must be ended at the . . . / I will play this game when I choose / I will resign the game / 11 20 40 / There is no reason Donald Crowhurst (to be sung in the manner of Morrissey)

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New and improved guide to Eric's, Liverpool, 1976-1980, listing all the gigs that took place there, and much more. liverpoolerics.blogspot.com @andrewmale.bsky.social @grantmcphee.bsky.social @gottobedrifting.bsky.social @phlogginganorse.bsky.social @babylonpink.bsky.social

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Liverpool Eric's

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wish somebody would ask a follow up question like "do you think this is presidential behaviour?" Or, as God is his co-pilot, "Do you think Jesus would have posted this?"

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A band with the name Ultimate Spinach have no right to sound this good www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuxD...

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Ultimate Spinach Ultimate Spinach 1968 USA, Psychedelic Rock

YouTube video by john,mr,koytro koutromanos

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks that was very helpful. Roger Eagle didn't have a complete downer on the Beatles. He hired out the club on August Bank Holiday weekend Sunday 28th/Monday29th for a Beatles Convention.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks Grant. Very helpful. I'll update the blog

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My trip to Boston, the epicentre of US literature in the mid 19th century, inspired me to write a.poem There once was a lightship from Nantucket She was really a floating rust bucket I can't think of a rhyme For the next line So I'll have to stop here

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hank was wired. Wire were Hanked.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Those are cracking, Jeff

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Those that don't study history are doomed to have Santayana quoted at them

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warrenotwasteland.bsky.social @warrenotwasteland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.” ~Christopher Penn

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Psych-punk band names Bobblehead With The Ascot Bobby Head & the Ascots Bobbie Ascot and the Heads Ascot & the Bobbleheads Bob LeHeadde & The Ascot

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The taking the children away scene at the end is more harrowing than Lou Reed's The Kids

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You're forgetting "I'm desperate, Dan"

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I saw Frankie Vaughan on the Seacombe Ferry when I was about 7 or 8. I didn't know who he was, but Nan said it was "There's that singer, Frankie Whatshisname" Suppose it could have been Frank Ifield

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My late wife went to the GP three times about her excruciating back pains, and the GP sent her away with (ever stronger) painkillers. If she (the GP) had just fucking listened to my wife perhaps the cancer would have been spotted earlier

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Voltaire (or possibly her sister, Vandyck) at Princes Landing Stage, 1930s

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For the 30th edition of Science & Magic I wrote about a Deaf School gig, time travel, my 19 year old self and unexpectedly dancing. Lots of great stuff as ever in this one and you can read and subscribe here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

A picture sleeve copy of Deaf School’s Taxi and a folded white handkerchief

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Mick Ord @mickordmedia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The new #MisadventuresinMusic podcast throws the spotlight on singer-songwriter #MichaelWestonKing whose new album 'Nothing Can Hurt Me Any More' has been praised to the hilt by none other than Elvis Costello: "a beautiful, complex piece of work". youtube.com/watch?v=6cuh...

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Michael Weston King - My Darling Clementine

YouTube video by Urbanista Magazine

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm going to weave that line into my conversation on a daily basis.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I always thought the Jetsons were Johnny Jetson, Joey Jetson, DeeDee Jetson and Tommy Jetson. Disappointed to find that's not the case

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?" Those should be a question asked daily of Vance, Johnson, Leavitt, et al. Whenever, whatever the subject

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Gerald Of Ryvita @reallybadexample.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Farage: "I’ve been physically more attacked over many years than any other politician.” Jo Cox was murdered. David Amiss was murdered. Stephen Timms was stabbed twice. Nigel Jones was attacked with a sword, survived but his aide died. Farage had a fucking milkshake thrown at him. Piece of shit.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I was going to ask him for canoeing tips

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Totally misremembered David Hockney as being part of this episode of Monitor, but it is so well worth watching anyway. Not least for the wonder of Pauline Boty and her work www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Monitor - Pop Goes the Easel

Ken Russell's 1962 film on the young British artists who were pioneering the pop art movement. Featuring Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty.

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Sitting on the porch playin' Townes van Zandt, Play guitar to burn off the hours Till we climb the fences at the edge of town And paint our names on the water tower Josh Ritter, Me & Jiggs

Cover of Riding the Range - the Songs of Townes Van Zandt with two people sitting on the porch playing Townes van Zandt

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

That was the great thing about Punk, not Slaughter & the Dogs or the Lurkers, it opened the door for . . . different. The door soon slammed shut. I ❤️ YMG, thanks for sharing

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Phil @philoates.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Happy birthday Phloggers

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