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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 9h

I also like the bit immediately preceding, where someone knocks something over off-camera and Glyn Daniel gives a little side eye as it fades to black

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 9h

I like these weird silent credits from the Stonehenge episode of archaeology programme Buried Treasure (1954, currently on iPlayer), with triffid-like lurs held aloft

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The framing of the title card for the pilot of An Unearthly Child absolutely mogs the broadcast version

Shot from the first version of episode 1 of Doctor Who adventure An Unearthly Child, a shot of the TARDIS framed further back from the camera amidst junk, a weird doll and some draped clothing filling the frame on the right. Imposed over the top is the title AN UNEARTHLY CHILD.

Broadcast version of the shot, which is much closer to the TARDIS, the junk less visible, hazy, and less interesting framing.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Eugh, that horrible sing-song voice

Mr Burns as a glowing green alien from The Simpsons, with terrifying saucer eyes and weird long fingers

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Acquired my namesake familiar spirit in ceramic form

A small ceramic cutout of Vinegar Tom, one of the familiars from the Manningtree witch tragedy. It is a dog-like creature with the head of an ox/bull. It has a quite smiley face

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Currently reading, and greatly taken by the alternate reality in which Doctor Who is about three people zooming around in a flying saucer as written by JG Ballard, John Wyndham, Brian Aldiss, Arthur C. Clarke and Kingsley Amis

The book Pull to Open by Paul Hayes, about the creation and development of Doctor Who.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New favourite Doctor Who extra, acting exactly as I do when called to action

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Immediately saw that as the set-up to one of those C4 perspective idents

Screenshot of one of the old Channel 4 idents, in which random objects come together to form the number 4. In those one, different market stalls and trolleys and things are arranged as the 4, as the camera moves down a city street

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shared from reddit. The portal at Rownhams Services.

Photo of the entrance to a long, rectangular tunnel lit with yellow-orange light, which looks incongruous appearing as it does among trees and bushes. It looks like an infinitely long portal in the middle of a woodland.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back." Enjoying this book about German resistance against the Nazis, which weirdly has the most exclamation marks I've ever seen in a novel.

Photo of the cover of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. The cover depicts a lone individual in coat and hat walking through the empty streets of Berlin as he approaches the rear of the Brandenburg Gate.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't mind though, as 13-year-old me is very excited indeed

Photo of inner circle courtyard of BBC Television Centre, with the Helios statue in the foreground and a block of former offices curving around behind it.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just seen someone say you didn't used to watch broadcast TV because it was good, you were just 'stuck by the lack of choice'

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The bloke who's just finished painting Union flags on all the trains

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: - Signs birthday party scene. - My dad saying that occasionally coffins are dug up where they find scratch marks on the inside. - Happy Tree Friends. - Brother saying a blood moon meant the world would end. - Raiders face-melting scene. - These cunts:

The Simpsons episode with the glowing green alien that turns out to be Mr Burns

Ghost photograph seen in the documentary 'Ghosts Caught on Tape: Fact or Fiction?' It depicts a hazy white figure, almost angelic, standing in front of the wreck of a car on the side of the road.

Screenshot from the CBBC programme Monster TV, in which the villainous Vera Venom (who lives in a cellar below the cellar of a family's home) holds her ventriloquist dummy sidekick (a version of her own head on a stick, with a terrifying mouth that snaps open and closed)

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

characters and objects of the myth

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And, amusingly, there happens to be a house in Malvern called Bernard Lodge

Screenshot from estate agent guide to a Victorian semi-detached house hewn of Malvern stone, with lovely bay windows and a large covered garage. Beneath the image is text reading "Bernard Lodge 262 Wells Road, Malvern, WR14 4HD. £950 Per Calendar Month."

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

TONIGHT - Penda's Fen, BBC4, 22:15 (22:00 for the Spencer Banks introduction). Tonight's broadcast carries a guidance warning for 'upsetting scenes'

Shot of the demon from Penda's Fen sitting on Stephen's chest, from his POV. It is dark and hazy and slightly bad quality, being ripped from a VHS recording. Behind the demon a window and a shelf of books can be seen.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jon Pertwee would have turned down the Henry Jones Sr. role in The Last Crusade anyway, having already starred in a feature-length adventure about navigating death traps to find the key to immortality

Harrison Ford and Sean Connery as Henry Jones Jr & Snr respectively in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Jon Pertwee (one of the backup options for the role of Indiana Jones's dad in The Last Crusade) pictured in The Five Doctors alongside Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton.

Robert Eddison as the Grail Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Richard Mathews as the colourful floating head of Rassilon in Doctor Who adventure The Five Doctors.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Come on City!! Sorry I've not been to a match in person in like 18 years, but now you're on TV I care about you again!

Me holding a blue and white Worcester City football club scarf. It says WORCESTER in big letters, as well as St George's Lane and The Faithful City. Unfortunately you can't quite see the anthropomorphic pear in sunglasses.
On the TV in the background is Knowle FC v Worcester City in the FA Cup First Round, live on BBC iPlayer, Red Button and YouTube.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yo, I found the lost end piece of the Bayeux Tapestry

Fake piece of the Bayeux Tapestry created on an online generator. On the left it depicts half a person beneath the tower of a castle. To the right are four people in attitudes of reverence around the figure of a king on the throne. Beneath them words read 'NEXT EPISODE IN 5', in the style of a streaming service that barely lets a film or TV show sit with you for even a moment before it's trying to make you watch something else.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mavic Chen's not even cold and the Daleks are already searching for his replacement on Guardian Jobs

Listing on Guardian Jobs page for 'Masterplan Campaign Project Manager'.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This one does battered black pudding 🫡🇬🇧

My pale hand holding a golden battered sausage of black pudding. The end has been bitten off, exposing the redness within which glints in the sunshine. Truly it makes you proud to be British.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Decided to avoid the area that was glowing green though......

Photo of a hole in the mine tunnels which is glowing green, a reference to the toxic waste from Doctor Who story The Green Death

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It will be preceded by a 'Remembers...' introduction with the sacred demon of ungovernableness himself, Spencer Banks

Shot from Penda's Fen of Spencer Banks as Stephen, head bowed as he receives a touch from the hand of King Penda atop the Malvern Hills

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September

Shot from the BBC Play for Today Penda's Fen, in which the boy Stephen in his school uniform sits pensively at the edge of a reed-filled river, gazing into its reflection. A bit behind him, a golden angel watches him.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Who is this who is coming? The postman, that's who. Hugely looking forward to reading this, @crumpledlinenpress.com

Photo of goodies received from Crumpled Linen Press. A Haunted Archive book del in into the MR James story 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad', a series of art cards (pictured is the terrified lad who sees a-something wiving at 'im out the winder), and the inscribed whistle of the above post.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Shot a roll of black & white film and very happy with the level of gloom attained. Stay tuned for more photographic gloom in the future.

Black and white 35mm photo of some wintry leafless trees, looking up the slope of a hill. From the middle of the scene to furhter on is veiled in fog, with a single tree just hazily visible in the distance. The ground is of muddy grass and a few stick-like shrubs and vegetation.

Black and white 35mm photo of a hill taken from a path near its summit. The summit, and most of the hill, is veiled in fog. The ground is of muddy grass. A small bench can be discerned before the path up to the summit.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you're thinking of getting into film photography, do be aware that occasionally your photos will come out looking like a faded postcard you'd find tucked in the middle of a second-hand book