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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October 1st, and one of my tomato plants finally decided to flower.

Flowers on a tomato plant, which offers the possibility of fruit. But it's October 1st.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think most of these are new since the last time I rode along the Fallowfield Loop. #graffiti

Two pieces of graffiti, side by side. One says 'Dances with the daffodils' around cartoon animals. The other, 'Quit your job!', in a speech ballot over a pink cat(?).

Graffiti on the Fallowfield loop- "NO RAIN NO GAIN".
Obviously done during one of the heatwaves.

Graffiti on the Fallowfield Loop of a skull, blue against a colourful background.

Graffiti on the Fallowfield Loop. "DAVE"

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can be around sucker for quirky packaging.

Engine organic gin, which comes in a tiny that looks like a vintage oil can. Don't ask me if it's any good. I don't drink gin. I've been meaning to try it, to see if I like it, and this pushed me over the edge into buying some.

Autumn squash, which is shaped like a video game mushroom. I could get a plumber to jump on it and see what happens, but I'd rather eat it.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just realised that I have taken Ike A Rat to New York, London, and Paris*, and must now take him on a trip to Munich so he can talk about pop music. *and Budapest and Tokyo, and other places I've currently forgotten.

Ike A Rat, stuffed toy and sometime mascot.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have been sent further shed roof images, so you can all stay up to date with progress.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Day 6. With that,I leave this project, and will be doing a more urban job next week. I've been promised updates, and will post them as I get them.

Shed at the start of the day, looking glorious after yesterday's work.

Shed at noon, with face plate and some more bracing.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 5 youtube.com/shorts/np7b4...

The shed at the end of the day, now with a new ridge and lots of rafters.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Day 4 youtube.com/shorts/WOGoj...

Rear wall of the shed. Check out the gap under the wall plate.

Rear wall of the shed, after the gap had been filled with stones and mortar. (I had nothing to do with this, it takes months, at least, to learn how to mortar this well.)

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day 3 youtube.com/shorts/q0PI0...

Stone built shed without a roof, waiting for another day's work.

Pile of timber, ends cut at an angle, which will become rafters.

Stone built shed after another day's work. It doesn't look like much, but there has been progress here, as well as in the lumber pile.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Day 2 youtube.com/shorts/m_-6V...

End of day two working on the shed. It doesn't look like much, but there is now a face plate in and levelled, that everything that follows can be aligned to.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day 1. youtube.com/shorts/CvYft...

Stone built shed with corrugated metal roof.

Stone shed, now with its roofing removed, awaiting new spars etc., and replacement roof sheets.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the good old days, when you gave your kids laudanum so they'd sleep, you needed a different treat to wake them and make them active again.

Old sweet bag, dug out of a wall. It's called Crack Pop, and apparently it's new and it's real. Not shown, for the sake of the joke, is the next line, that says it's popcorn.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Upgraded my bike, and now the handlebars have a bell end.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

4 new photos uploaded! ift.tt/I2JyQLn Uploaded September 2, 2026 at 07:58PM

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lowering your car can make it look cool and aggressive. Doing the same to your boat has the opposite effect.

Small pleasure boat sunk to the gunnels(sp?) In a canal.

Sunken boat photographed from closer to.

Half sunken pleasure boat, with greenery growing around, and in, it.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I forgot to buy a card, so I had to draw one instead.

Pen and blue pencil drawing of a Mallard locomotive, as used on the cover of Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish, but labelled Married Life Is Awesome instead.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Given the tone set by the flags, this probably innocent golf club looked threatening as well.

Golf club against a low brick wall. Who knows how ot got there.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For whatever reason, the flag wankers did very little in my bit of Gorton, but I only have to walk a short way to start feeling unwelcome.

Union flags on lampposts. Appropriately at half mast to mourn the passing of the UK as a serious country.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Found a sheet of house party flyer designs I did back in 1990. Just technical pens on a sheet of A3. Wish I'd done more of this sort of thing over the years.

House party flyer for the New Fast Automatic Party. Chunky letters overlap and create negative spaces so they're still readable.

House party flyer, mimicking Factory style minimalist branding. It just says Party13, with time and date information (10:00 24.02.1990)

House party flyer for New Fast Automatic Party. Each letter is formed from a circle, with sections carved out to create the shape.

House party flyer for New Fast Automatic Party. The letters are swirly and curved, like sixties poster lettering, but just in black.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Science! The mousetraps contain, from left to right- peanut butter, cheese, and chocolate. I'm intrigued to see which one is tripped first.

Three humane mousetraps arranged close together to see which bait is preferred.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sometimes you just have to start the week by designing a TTRPG guillotine. #TTRPG #Blender

Screenshot of a 3D model of a guillotine for wargames and RPGs.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If they haven't sold out yet, you can get a model of the art block outside the Manchester branch of Fred Aldous, and decorate it with mini graffiti. Mine is currently a homage to 1980s custom car graphics. www.fredaldous.co.uk/pages/alex-c...

Laser cut model of the Stevenson Square art block on my modelling table. Currently finished in multiple colours after an experiment with masking tape and spray cans.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just stood at my front door and strained the sun.

Partial solar eclipse, cast on the wall as several crescent by a colander.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm testing sizes for a possible new product. I am *not* playing with toy cars on my computer desk. (Drives OO Ford Granada across the keyboard. "We're the Sweeney, and we 'aven't 'ad our breakfast!") #modelrailway #OOgauge

OO gauge (1:76) Ford Granada beside a test print of possible speed bump stickers, testing for size.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some photos from yesterday's bike ride.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You should always check the contents of charity shop dvds to make sure they contain the right film. Or you risk being very disappointed.

The contents of the Forst Blood case. The Moaning of Life,which I have no desire to watch.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I don't know the story of this piece of art on a pole by a local bus stop. It could be a memorial, but I hope it's random prettiness. We need more random prettiness.

Dried, or plastic, flowers against a white/cream background in a pale gold oval picture frame, hung on a pole beside a bus stop.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think I saw this bunch again, or another similar shoal. Anyone know what they are?

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't support capital punishment, honest. But for a while this morning, I had opinions on new uses for this device....

Device used to attach very tight elastic bands to lamb scrotums for the purpose of castration.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I hoped that leaving this out in the sun during a heat wave might soften the plastic enough for the roof to deform under the weight of spanners. In the end, I had to use the traditional method of holding it over a hot ring, then squishing. #modelcar #weathering

Model Police car, crushed under a stack of spanners.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

5 new photos uploaded! ift.tt/2bNJiar Uploaded July 14, 2026 at 04:11PM

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

19 new photos uploaded! ift.tt/2bNJiar Uploaded July 14, 2026 at 04:09PM

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

New Electric Callboy single just dropped.

'Welcome to Cumbria' sign, but somehow of the letters have been blanked out so it says 'We come to Cum'

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bring back microcars to make our cities more fun! (And Amphicars, just for the hell of it.)

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Had just enough resin to test print the Japanese house in Z and N. There's a few issues, mostly with the window bars and balcony rail (and the main door needs to stand out more), but overall, looking good. #modelrailway #ngauge #zgauge

3D prints, in Z and N gauge, of my 1970s Japanese family house design.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Third time this year. (Fourth posterboard overall.) #ManchesterMayor #VoteGreen

We're voting Green posterboard outside my house.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Photos from a short bike ride this evening. A quick search suggests that Sentinel Task Force is Call of Duty related, and not something sinister.

A swan family- two adults and three cygnets- on the canal.

Graffiti- stencil frog sprayed on a sign on the canal towpath.

Graffiti- stylised skull with crosshairs on its brow, white, outlined in red, on a black background. The 117 above it ties it to the Sentinel Task Force graffiti on the same building.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Easily my most detailed design yet. 1970s era Japanese family home, for 3D print in Z gauge and N gauge. Now to see if I've got enough resin for a test print. #Blender #3Ddesign #ModelRailway #ZGauge #NGauge

Screenshot of work in progress on a 3D design in Blender. A two storey house based upon Japanese homes.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I appreciate the way these socks tell me which foot to put them on.

Grey socks with blue detailing, including letters. The ones on my right foot has the letter L on it, the one on my left, the letter R.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm still looking for inspiration for Japanese homes to replicate for my layout, and have just found this, which is stunning and terrifying at the same time. app.akiya-mart.com/property/66a...

House for sale in Japan, viewed from below. Most of the structure juts out over a steep drop, supported only by wooden uprights.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Essential supplies for weather like this.

Box of Pocari Sweat iin supply drink sachets.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two hours waiting for my energy supplier to find a human for me to talk to online. But at least I've been productive- OO Gauge 120 litre wheelie bin. Coming soon to the store (along with a bunch of other sizes, and probably in O and N as well). #ModelRailway #OOGauge

Simple 3D render of a model of a wheelie bin (120litre version)

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