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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 4h
Alice went up the hill on Sunday taking photos for her GCSE project. "Oh, I completely forgot to show you" she said over dinner.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 5h
BigL Fab 40 playing Finger Pop by Jnr Walker and every time I hear that record I just want to be in a mod club in September 1965 surrounded by great dancers.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 9h
Todmorden has won the Yorkshire in Bloom Gold Award for the 5th year running. This town rocks a mean display. #Pride
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 13h
"This may come too much from the kind of writer I am, but I don’t think a straight line between who one is and what one writes is any virtue. A tanglesome path through dense woods, or a boxy maze — these seem more interesting to me". @tobylitt.bsky.social from A Writer's Diary. This gets my vote.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 14h
Recently unearthed manhole cover, made by Pavement Industries Limited of Alfreton 1876-1964 (later Associated Metal and Iron Works 1964-1984) Now dissolved. The area where the works once stood is now a partially wooded prime dogging site.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 14h
And yet, inside. Pristine ish. I don't keep the records in it. Does anyone?
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 15h
Just caught up with the last 20 mins of Cyril Scott from yesterday. Loved the bit in The Sad Pierrot where he goes a bit Bill Evans. Closewatchers will spot it. Mysticism today. I hope they do him justice. They used to go the full esoteric in those days.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So all these Premier League titles have been a lie then. Fergie won another one. Ole and Jose too. Brendan Rogers. There's another. Hand it over. Hand it over.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Out very soon...
Ivor Cutler: Selected Poems (Hoorgi House 2026)
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I only learned y/day that Tony had died. RIP to a radio legend and the reason incidentally why 6Music is not called Radio Six, because Tony claimed the same first.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I endorse every word of this. The amount of people on here who I quite like until they start on their woe is us armchair miserablism.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sad moment. The last of our delicious Katya eating apples for this year. We had such a glut C has made loads of orange juice for the freezer.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Following @andylewis.bsky.social on the continuity from 50s to 80s London y/day this from the Times on the 90s show at Tate Britain draws the line at the end of all that. The last period of grant funded higher education, cheap warehouse and gallery space and affordable rent.>
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I cannot impress upon you too much how having an internet radio with 25 or so carefully researched Favourites in your presets means you never have to listen to shit radio ever again unless you choose to.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my favourite internet radio stations. Go seek the ether.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Edna O Brien's Lochinvar. It's David Owen isn't it? I bet it is.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apropos, I was surprised at the extent to which London became a character in itself in Unsung Unsaid. It's the Eleanor Bron to Nick and Syd's Pete and Dud. And without giving anything away it's going to happen again in my next one. I need to start paying London psychogeographic royalties.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I still think the film of AB is the absolute pits but I like what Andy posits here, particularly from points 4/5 onwards about 80s London still just about being recognisably old 50s London. Docklands was being transformed but elsewhere, much of Soho and W11 for instance was still MacInnesLand.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Scotty mosaic.
My Cyril Scott cds.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the many reasons I have an internet radio is that every now and then I hear something so good I have to check the station playlist to see what it is. I had no idea who she was. I still have no idea but this is a total banger. Play loud with lyrics on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iN...
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Jaime Wyatt - "World Worth Keeping" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Jaime Wyatt
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Never mind the full English. I'm going the full Autumn today. Porridge with our garden apple sauce for breakfast. Cheese on toast lunch (Davidstow Creamery xtra mature Cheddar on rye with a smidge of home made pickle) 'locally sourced' Chilli dinner. Ditto apple and blackberry crumble for afters. xx
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Been refreshing my internet radio Favourites, which I like to do occasionally. Found a station called Yimago Nostalgia - Radio Ye-Ye. Excellent choice. Does what it says on the label. Lots of Beatles covers incidentally.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah I dunno. Here's everyone doing their existential dread and their Mister Bleaney listens to Sing Something Simple and I'm thinking about how almost every student Sunday afternoon was spent in bed having sex.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For new followers it might be worth saying, this is available here as an original: www.chloecumming.com/inkwater along with many other things, and spreading of the word about this is very welcome right now ✔️
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Ink and Watercolour — Chloe Cumming
This gallery collects ink and watercolour works (sometimes drawings, sometimes paintings), visually congruent with one another, with fluid line. expressive mark-making and luminous colour. This Norwic...
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whenever I see someone being all edgelordy about Sgt Pepper on here I think I bet your breath smells too.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just watching Kevin Peterson on Sky Sports defending Harry Brook and playing spot the subtext. KP clearly sees a lot of himself in the young tyro. Found myself saying "Harry is the Jeff Beck to Joe Root's Hank Marvin."
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lance Percival enters this week's BigL Fab40. Another case of my favourite weekly chart run down keeping it real. If you weren't there you can't imagine how ubiquitous LP was. On TV on radio. Popped up in guest slots everywhere all the time.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Colour me Autumn. Ahead of next week's COTW on R3 some perfect late September leaves on the turn Sunday morning listening courtesy of my favourite Theosophist composer.
Cyril Scott String Quartets 1,2, & 4. Cover art.  Summer Sales by Mary Koop (1925)
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s Saturday! Post a cartoon series you love! Best cartoon ever. Hugely influential on my yin and yang. One part Oscar. One part Astro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKte...
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Astronut - Martian Recipe (1965)
YouTube video by KittysKoolKartoonKollection
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Look. Me. Doing a turn. At this.
Show I'm doing in Cambridge on Friday afternoon, October 9th. 50 seater. Lovely venue.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm turning off the computer now to spend the evening in the real world but I leave you with this question. Am I the only person on here who not only doesn't like but can't effing stand Rumours by Fleetwood Mac?
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I also remember moving flat just before term started. Nothing unusual in that but when I think back those circumstances could probably not happen now, given the dearth and expense of affordable renting accom. Let me explain. In my 1st yr I'd shared a house in Horfield with 7 other people...>
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Would have been around now 50 yrs ago I started my 2nd yr of my Humanities degree at Bristol Poly. After a primer year of here comes everybody 101 from Sophocles onwards it was time for the 19th C big hitters. Bleak House Middlemarch Anna Karenina Crime & Punishment Madame Bovary Hedda Gabler.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lunchtime listening. Continuation. Sun Ra and the gang in NYC in 1963. The previously unreleased bonus tracks on the CD issue are astounding. The Sonny discovers reverb and echo trickery is not for everyone. Personally I love it. Right up there with Heliocentric Worlds this selection.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh. Following last night's guitarist block shenanigans it looks like I might have other shenanigans going on. #Breaking #Shenanigans
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ooh just had to block my old guitarist on Insta for getting lippy with me for having the temerity to refer to the Glaxos as 'my band'. Honestly these bitter old punks in their 70s with nothing better to do with their time. It was getting on for half a century ago ffs.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the evening crowd. I've done a thought thread.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After a hugely enjoyable meet up with Mr Miller in Liverpool y/day I popped into Reids and bought Travesties (by far my favourite Stoppard play) and these two Fyfeilds. Money well spent.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daybreak Valley Mist.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just watched the final part of 70Up. A lot to process mentally here so expect some chat tomorrow.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just seen the judges for this year's Booker Prize. One name leaps out. And to think people made a fuss about Stella Rimington. What a joke these baubles are.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every iconic still they show from these iconically iconic Beatles films just gets more and more iconic. I can hardly wait for the iconic films themselves.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the early Autumn shade of a garden bench let sleeping cats lie.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a groundbreaking thought I know but it's bloody gorgeous out there today.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More spirit of enquiry chat like this please, about everything. It's like eavesdropping on a really interesting adjacent table.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJw...
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Somebody Else's World (a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea)
YouTube video by Sun Ra - Topic
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heron on the rooftop yeah yeah yeah
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last night's Footage Detectives on Talking Pics was worth enduring all the Mike Read who remembers Spangles and Dreft drivel for some really nice Big L footage from 1967 featuring John Peel Pete Drummond Paul Kaye Mark Roman Tony Brandon and Willy Walker. Just watched it.
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That Sunday Times Uni Guide every year. Top Univs. "With an alumni of 6 Prime Ministers, 5 Poet Laureates, 3 Nobel Prize Winners and world renowned science research..." Bottom Univs. "Boasting a new eco-bus shelter and a wellness pond..."
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Skip breakfast for the win." No thank you. And if you could write more like an adult than your 15 year old daughter on her Snapchat that would be great too. Morning all.
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