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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nice cheeseboard! Remind me to ask you who the writer was next time we meet.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was grumbling this morning because I had to work on something for next week. But the "work" was watching Sandra Hueller in Markus Schleinzer's film Rose and it turned out to be nothing like work at all. Excellent film...and she's wonderful in it.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Caught up with Obsession last night. Smartly done horror touching on all kinds of nerves... sexual consent, male terror of intimacy, the nature of love. And not TOO scary. I didn't have to hide behind my wife once.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nailed it. 🔨

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/10/2026

⚡️ A woman in Saratov, Russia, demanded a local café remove a figure of Dobby from its window, claiming it resembled Vladimir Putin.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Exactly that. If you’d never seen one before you’d say “What the FUCK is that! It’s HUUGE!!”

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why bother? Because partisan indifference to inconvenient facts is what got us into this mess in the first place. And the embroidery simply gives his apologists a place to hide.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure why I bother, but most accounts of Trump’s blatherings about Iran taking out LA and San Diego are misleading. Pretty clear from the video that “it’s a small price to pay” is a call back to his use of that term earlier in reference to fuel prices and the war.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

True. But he was a public figure of some notoriety. It would be a little odd NOT to cover his death. There’s quite a lot of story to tell there.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reminded of the headline we ran on the review of Jeffrey Archer’s first play after coming out of prison for perjury: “Archer’s back — with blemishes”. (Credit to Mark Lawson for that one).

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

DEFINITELY worth disinterring. (And I don’t think it quite worked.) One of those films that has you feeling two contradictory things about Marmite.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brilliant at lacemaking, a little unsound on how parachutes work.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saw Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine last night. Very enjoyable. And now Easter Island is off the bucket list.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Birthday Marsden. Please visit for a complimentary pastry* *Croissant only. Offer ends 8.40 am.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or I’ll just enjoy living with it more…

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you. The cough behaved well while we were on air.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cold packing its things to leave, reasonably politely. But I think I’m going to have to get the bailiffs for the cough.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the light of recent events Crouch End Airsoft Society have decided to cancel our scheduled night paintballing exercise in Norfolk (r.v. RAF Lakenheath Viewing Area). Pass it on will you?

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To the people who’ve been complaining about their colds all week: I took delivery this morning and you’re right, it’s a stinker.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lovely breezy day on the Rochdale Canal, between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden.

Tree lined canal, hills rising in the background.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“I will not engage with the listicle, I will not engage with the listicle, I will not engage with the listicle….what the hell do you mean Peep Show is below Downton Abbey!!”

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did not know that. I thought he was Chicago to the marrow.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reading this, which is grimly wonderful. Loved this passage in which an inveterate liar and bloviator, Tamkin, finds himself saying something true (or true for Bellow’s main character Wilhelm)

Penguin Classic edition of Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day. Cover image a Vivian Maier picture of a solitary man on a city street, walking past a fence made of old mismatched doors.

Now, Wilhelm, I'm trying to do you some good. I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At last. NONE of the suits I currently own allow me to do this…

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh God. What solecism have I committed? Had to spin a bit of script on the hoof last night, so I may have put my hoof in my mouth.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy birthday Stephen King! Here (for the umpteenth time, sorry) are some photographs I took of him encountering a fish-paste sandwich in London, 1983.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m back on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 at 9: Carlo Rovelli on philosophy and physics, Lavinia Greenlaw on difficulty in poetry, and James Graham’s new play about John Maynard Keynes. Stick that heady mix in yer podcast pipe. How lucky we are to have the BBC.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting. I guess there will be ebbs and flows.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was a Saturday of course. Might be better on a weekday.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yikes. Though obviously without the hounding the wait would be even longer. The BM appear to have got their flow calculations badly wrong.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today I experienced Swiss railway disruption due to work on the tracks. Honestly, “If Carlsberg did bus replacement services”. They even send you a little map so you know exactly where to find the bus.

Map of Bex station with a line of little blue arrows guiding travellers from platform to bus stop.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh dear. Didn’t know about that.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Back from three days walking in the Alps and the only summit I have in my sights is Mount Sofa. I know it can be climbed. I’ve done it before.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This was something like 1400 metres. Very tough on aged shock absorbers.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The long, long, long, oh-my-God-aren’t-we-there-yet descent home.

View over a grassy track to towering distant peaks. Blue sky. Aching feet not in picture.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alpine geology is wild. Get a load of the strata.

Cliff face above Ovronnaz, with wildly twisted strata bending back on themselves.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today we headed up to the pointy bits*. *Technical language used by advanced Alpinists.

Rock massifs on the route between Derborance and Ovrannaz. I am far too tired to look up its name.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well…it was…invigorating.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We thought our troubles were over once we’d passed the chains and ladders. Then we found this absolute unit sitting across the path and showing no inclination to move *whatsoever*

An ibex (bouquetin in the Valais) blocking our only route down from something like 1000 metres of descent. It didn’t deign to move until we were about ten feet away.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When the Swiss tell you a route has a “passage difficile” believe them.

A walker descending a precipitous path, clinging to safety chains. The view plunges to the valley beyond.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Petit-déjeuner. (Romantic purists please ignore the Komatsu digger).

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