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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 19h

They certainly do. And, iirc, a giraffe from the neck up.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like these alternative cover designs...

2 different cover designs for The Inheritors, one a small fire in the centre of big stone, and one a standing hominid brandishing a flaming torch...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This hymn was written by Joachim Neander, after whom the Neander Valley was named. This valley was where Neanderthal 1 was found—but he wasn't called Neanderthal after the valley! Neander means "new man."

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It made Arthur Koestler blub. (Well, he said it was moving.)

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had my eye on this for a while. Neanderthal adventures...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've always wanted to pop into the Hoop & Grapes, just on the strength of its wonky windows. Now it's a minute from my (voluntary) workplace—so here I am with a Timothy Taylor Landlord *Dark*, which is a new one on me. V tasty! Noisy punters, sadly. Fancied a *quiet* pint. Ho hum.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

R.I.P., George Fenton. Thanks for the music, particularly the Bergerac theme.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They hadn't heard of the film with Leonard Rossiter as Le Pétomane.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Overheard a conversation about Roland the Farter—so of course I joined in. Refreshing to meet such enlightened people! There is hope.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I liked it. Maybe the best in the Three Novels box.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oboist Kate St John's birthday this Friday, incidentally.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You didn't actually read it, did you?

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some years ago, I did a few Badaptations of well-loved TV commercials. Like this one...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watched The Blue Bird (Cukor, 1976)... Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Jane Fonda, George Cole, Patsy Kensit, Robert Morley, and Cicely Tyson (who you may know from the cover of Miles's Sorcerer album)! A magical tale for all the family. Jane Fonda wins that film.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are also good pictures on the walls but it's too dark to see them and now my eyes hurt. Playlist update: Ian Dury.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a pub listening to Joan Jett with a good (& cheap) cider.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oak leaves n snakes woven into a headdress.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Sophocles' The Root Diggers, she wears oak.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ruth Goller has a distinctive approach youtu.be/ef2nHha7YMU?...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All for transcendentalism, but NOT at the expense of root vegetables and tubers!!!

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At Fruitlands, vegetables that grow downwards (carrots, beets, potatoes) are forbidden. And for that reason, I'm out.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooh, haven't listened to this for a while...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mr Pastry would've been a good Bond. Of course he wouldn't have been Bond as such... "The name's Pastry. Mister Pastry."

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Cranmer’s sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What if I were to invent a fondue set made from pastry?

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The wheel: another pretty good idea! Also the domestication of horses... Beer, flax, woad... CHEESE... Why did the fondue set fail to unite humanity? Because some people are lactose intolerant?

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Welcome boats. Boats were probably a significant factor in the origin of consciousness. Boats bring earthlings together— unlike borders, walls, flags, and so-called newspapers. I have been in a fair few boats. Imho, the boat was really a first-rate invention—so keep the boats coming, I say.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Conversation with @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social led (via Dr Who and Survivors) to this incredible series. Somehow I intuited even as a child visiting the BM that an Ancient Egyptian model of someone ploughing was one of the most important exhibits of all.

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James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sea of peppery mashed potato... over fishy stuff.

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Found a photo of the starry gazey pie I once made (with the mash dyed green to better portray the sea)...

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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Plus, I once saw Sir Michael Tippett after a performance of Byzantium, and said I liked his trousers. Thanks, said he, they were made for me by an Australian rock guitarist.

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