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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More options on this bus than I expected!

Screen display inside a bus: “Did you know? You can also tap off with the driver”

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good morning to you, my little…

Package saying “16 Twisted Firestarters, 100% Natural

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today I shall mostly be a Rococo Toad, using trompe-l'œil frescoes to create spatial illusion

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Found a pic from the bottom of the ark

A green 1975 Reliant Scimitar GTE, nose on, parked on a rugged sunlit moor

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

better than nothing, but this was the hot ticket

a North Pacific Sleek Streak balsa rubber-powered model aeroplane from the late 1960s / early 1970s, the wood overprinted with red decor

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“You have obviously arrived in a Lotus”

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy 50th to Aardman Animations!

Family gathering of Wallace, Gromit, Sean and a friend, Morph and Evil Penguin

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am still mildly shocked at finding that Nick Timothy was only 44 when he had this photo taken

Nick Timothy’s wikipedia mugshot, in which to me at least he looks about 60

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve changed my mind now. If you see this, post your REAL getaway vehicle

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

An Ariel Nomad 2 doing what it does best: moving fast on loose surfaces

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"FT journalist refers to FT story" should hardly be a surprise. If you really can't get an FT sub from wherever you are you will get the source for this particular story by looking for this podcast on your platform of choice

thumbnail image from the current episode of the Political Currency podcast, interviewing Sue Gray

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

and because I cheated a bit on my previous one, here IS a single image, to specification. Now YOU post a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

an orangey-red Lamborghini Miura climbs a vertiginous mountain pass to the soothing strains of Matt Monro singing On Days Like These, at the start of The Italian Job (the real one, not the pointless remake)

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ok, so this one is shot / reverse shot, but it's one moment. Give me an image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Martin Blank experiences an existential epiphany at his 10 year high school reunion, in Grosse Pointe Blank

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sounds like the Tide is coming in

A massive orange canister of Ultra Concentrated Tide Original

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I love the colours of that cover. They are favourites that I love to wear, and remind me of one of the first books I truly loved

The cover of Sam and the Firefly, by PD Eastman. Sam, an owl, sits on a branch. He is backlit against the velvet-deep blue-green night by a yellow moon, and converses with a hyped-looking firefly with an illuminated tail

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Neither can I, on those monstrosities, but they do still make (a few) actual cars

Arguably the last good looking new BMW available for sale, the 3-series

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

TFW you wake to a loud “HURRRRR” and find a hot air balloon cruising over your house

A gaily multicoloured balloon low over a row of red brick houses

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Limiting it to those of which I have personal experience...

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pre-filming refreshments at a secret North Yorkshire location

Catherine Warr getting ready to film in the corner of a pleasant cafe

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Funnily enough I was watching Jason and the Argonauts last week fir the first time in years and thought Nancy Kovak as Medea gave off very strong “alien about to be seduced by Kirk” vibes

Nancy Kovak all bronzed up to impress the audience as Medea in the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh, Mercedes-Benz, how far you have fallen It’s an electric car. Let it be an electric car. It has no business popping and banging

Quoted from Autocar magazine on the new Merc CLA. “the new CLA 45, which brings supercar-baiting performance, advanced torque-vectoring
technology and an ICE-aping 'exhaust note that even pops and bangs.”

“…a synthesised eight-speed gearbox.
Vibrating motors are fitted in the front seats to ape the rumble of the petrol engine in the occupants' backs, and the sound can be heard both inside and outside the car, with pops and crackles on the overrun.”

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Jodie Foster should have starred in a bio-pic. Here is Tallulah in 1939, in The Little Foxes.

Tallulah Bankhead photographed for The Little Foxes in 1939, looking exactly like Jodie Foster, if you ask me

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Big fan of the way the direct Madrid Barajas to Manchester Ringway routing is depicted

snip from FlightAware showing the inbound Ryanair flight as MAD MAN

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Presumably some structure as used on a lot of legitimate motorcycles would prevent the leg-crushing

A motorcycle ghosted out to highlight bar structures which protect the rider's legs from being crushed in the event of falling over

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

loads, but this is always very special for me

a view of ornamental lakes and temple at Studley Royal, the gardens surrounding Fountain's Abbey in North Yorkshire

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Robert Vaughan in aviator sunglasses, dimpling his chin with steely precision

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I give you The Bridge At Remagen, a very Saturday early-evening TV movie indeed, if you live in the 1970s

Dvd cover for The Bridge At Remagen (1969)

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Peter Kay sketch or real-life Dundee? You decide...

Clip from the Dundee Courier: "historic sign advertising a Dundee-made soft drink is to be saved after being unearthed earlier this week.

The hand-painted Pola-Cola mural was found on a wall at the Dundee City Council Depot in Stobswell’s Maitland Street. It had been covered up with harling for years and was was discovered by council workers who were asked to replace it. However, a local business owner and city councillor intervened to save it from being lost to history." Photo shows the hand-painted sign "Keep Cool / Drink ROLA-COLA" on its wall

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Haven’t seen a 1990s Renault 5 in the wild for a long time , and am pleased to see this one

A 1993 economy-spec Renault 5 as a daily driver. Various shades of faded red

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Until then, brace yourselves for TOMORROW's video! The Border Reivers are central to the history of Scotland and Northern England. Folk heroes, outlaws, bandits - who are they really? This is the story of the real gangs and clans who terrorised the borders for centuries... from 7pm UK time tomorrow

Historian Catherine Warr getting into the spirit of border raiding in tomorrow's film about the Reivers

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Big day out filming with @cathwarr.bsky.social for our forthcoming Battle of Marston Moor, which will be out on Friday 3rd July

Catherine in her best Civil War look, holding forth while backed by a hedge full of bright red poppies

The hat and cloak did eventually come off

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Typical trillionaire behaviour, wall of money pushing normal luxuries out of reach

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Cover for the dvd box set of “Turtle’s Progress”, a comedy crime caper series from 1979/80

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's been a very rabbity day. speaking of which, guess who's here? And thank you for your lovely sketchy note x

Chloe's delightful rabbit painting, now safely living with me

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The dual-purpose baffle panel ahead of the paratroop door, surely

Tom Cruise hanging on by his fingers through the holes in the A400M paratrooper door baffle panel as the aircraft takes off

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tempting, but in my heart I’ve always held out for being a Head of Easter Island. Better weather, and people to talk to

A job advertisement for the position “Head of Stonehenge”

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Purple poppies having their two-day glory on the driveway side of my garden fence

Purple poppy flowers the size of teacups against a wooden fence

Wider shot of the stand of about a dozen poppy plants

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

First wild strawberries of the season. I’ve let them spread all across my little patch this year so it’s all very verdant and scruffy, but the birds and bees are having fun so that’s fine

Close up of small wild strawberries in varying stages of ripeness

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It’s a big rhetorical gap from Lord Nelson

Horatio Nelson quoted as saying: “England expects that every man will do his dury”

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