Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Me, on realising I’ve opened the door to Jehovah’s Witnesses. 3261
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Try buying a fisherman’s cottage in Wells or the Burnhams, it’s insane. And most of them sit empty for 50 weeks a year. Example: one bed terrace in Burnham Thorpe. Basically a two up two down. 2100
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The other end. They found more asbestos which gas involved some fairly careful work over the last six weeks. 160
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today’s outing was less successful, so here’s another from yesterday’s bountiful harvest of souls. 2120
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I really like this one. There’s all these little tableaux in it, zoom in and have a gad about. 5445
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today’s wander. It’s chewing its way along nicely. 1210
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Actually prefer the landscape version thinking about it. 4474
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A view under the flyover of the beast at rest. Kids from the local school under the bridge at Stump Cross, named after a wayside cross that stood here until the 16th century. 5544
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This one is shot looking across the opened heart of a medieval graveyard, towards a building called Gildengate, named after a jousting ground which is nearby. 1507
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by. 1210523
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Percy, my mums dad died in the Battle of Messines, three years later. Quite bizarrely his death appeared in the Cambridge Weekly News on the day before her third birthday. It’s like a tragedy magnet. 160
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here’s a newspaper article from 29th of August 1914. I only found it today. It’s a story I had a skeleton of knowledge about, but is tragic and horrific in ways I wasn’t actually expecting. 5202
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No. Although there might be some in those ones. They were a wtf is this mystery buy from a supermarket. I do have a few Trichocereus though, they’re quite hardy. A few quick grabs: 020
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have bought the last of the danger sausages into their overwintering spot. 8862
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Won the ‘spot the penis in the archaeological museum’ competition again. Record time this year. 060
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I did that thing where you half recognise someone, we both nodded at each other and smiled, swapped an awkward ‘alright’ as you do. His arm was in a sling. It was Richey. So that’s my very vague brush with a bit of music history. And here’s all the bits of paper including the rider. Strange times. 1371
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was rare I’d bother picking up a set list. If I did I usually gave it away. One night I did and kept it, not sure why really. Manic Street Preachers had played. Here it is. 4421
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It also needs a smaller H1 or a different container width. 3190
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A new scratch build is pulsing away in my head. As usual it’s a real thriller. 150
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A really rather beautiful ghost sign just popped up on Magdalen Street, thus confirming its position as the best street in the city again for yet another year. Early c20th painted and gold foiled glass. Seems it was covered over in the 1960s. It’s been a Chinese chemist for years. 1414017
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Just stuck this on eBay. Think I’ve probably got enough Uranium glass. 10393
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Got myself a cool t-shirt. Cool as in not cool, but vaguely funny and very local. 3190
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Due to a thing I'm doing I just remembered having one of these sets. Ideal for making unwieldly cufflinks, or making a huge dead wasp pendent for your nan. 6254
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026He sent me scans of all the bits of the sleeve he used in the Montage. Even at the age of 40-something this was dead exciting and in fact to me, still is. Here’s the other bits. 2140
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Anyway. I wrote about it. And by some weird twist of fate Mike Cole’s read it and emailed me to tell me about how he’d been visiting friends in Norwich, and hungover on his way to get some milk, spotted the arches which reminded him off De Chirico, so he took a photo. 1110
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And that was, the main cover photo was taken in Norwich. I’d just never spotted it, which is odd, because I knew people that had lived there, had been inside and even looked at a flat, in here… 1130
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Here’s a story I’ve told elsewhere. From the age of about 15, one of the greatest loves of my life was Killing Joke, I bought everything they did, went and saw them, bought the t-shirt, painted the first album on the back of my cheap leather jacket. Loved them. Especially their, 1981 second album 74712
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Also have a few 1/35th First World War unmade, and loathe to get rid of, especially the Big Bertha. The more recent kits are astonishing. I kept all my FWW made tanks too. Especially this slightly rough old fave. 120
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Addenda: after I did this thread I revived an email from Paul Carter who I’d contacted about the Hakodate Camp photo. He’d attached a better scan. So here’s Alf in 1944. The photos were taken by order of the camp commander, and print for each man. Quite remarkable. Paul’s father is in the same photo 190
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Here he is poring a family favorite, a pint and a half of port in a trophy. I follow his lead every Christmas out of respect. 1120
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The only evidential stuff is a photo of him in Hakodate which is near Haikido. We know while he was there he broke his arm, if you can spot him, his arm is in a sling. My mum also said he was beaten. 170
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Alf, along with I believe 80,000 other men, were overwhelmed by the Japanese and surrendered. What follows is a bit of a trip. CHANGI MORURAN YACOMO MORURAN HAKODATE And finally BIBIA 180
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026His half-brother Tom (Parr) had already joined the Royal Artillery. My mum was by this point a midwife in London, but also pregnant, and his other brother-in-law, my dad was already in the RAF, he’d joined in 1932. Here are these side-cast members. Tom on the left, and Grace and Charlie. 160
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Then the War came. A shadow growing across Europe and spreading over Asia. He joined up in March 1940, the 5th Suffolks, a territorial battalion, part of the East Anglian division. Here he is in a studio portrait. 20 years old, and that collar looks way too big for him. 1120
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A story. This is my Uncle Alf, my mum’s half brother. Her dad died in the Great War, my Nan remarried in 1920, another veteran. Mum had one brother and two step-brothers. Alfred Leonard Ireton was born in December 1919, they married in January 2020, as you do, or did back then. Here’s Alf. 2405
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Also took some photos through candle smoked glass, the old school eclipse viewer. Accidentally captured the oncoming apocalypse. 0261
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Just remembered designing this the last time there was an eclipse. Rialto issue 43, Summer 99. 0150
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Only sussed the other day that Freddie Jones is Toby Jones dad. Here he is as Thufir Hawat, complete with giant eyebrows in David Lynch’s 1984 version of Dune. 4234
