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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 05/10/2026

For context, the East Coast Mainline ran so close to the bottom of our garden that ornaments used to walk themselves off shelves with the vibrations

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to starting this

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 04/10/2026

The Turner Prize in Boro, woot

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 03/10/2026

My traditional Twisterella brunch is now (for one year only) the Turner Prize brunch

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 30/09/2026

Get the autumnal squashes in lads

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/09/2026

It’s this leaking of information again in order to judge people’s reactions before deciding the ultimate outcome. Well I’m saying the only thing can salvage the integrity of the premier league now is Man City being docked ONE MILLION POINTS www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026

Burn (as I believe is the parlance of the day)

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026

I know what you are thinking. I should have battered it 😞

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/09/2026

Finished my GCSEs and played it every day of the summer (1991)

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/08/2026

My Dolly Parton anecdote is just that me and my missus were at the famous Glasto set. It was red hot and so dangerously overcrowded (just behind the break barrier) that we had to leave and listen from the hill next to the ice cream van. And, it was glorious. Godspeed queen

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 23/08/2026

Dinosaur country 🦕 I’ve never seen the waterline so low at #codbeck although Google tells me this is an engineered drawdown 🫤

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 23/08/2026

In the last 15-years or so, I’ve consumed approx two million KJ of Warburtons teacakes. A pack of four literally every weekend. Now they have changed the packaging - but also the recipe - I think I’m done 😞

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 22/08/2026

On that note, (not sure what I was expecting) I tried these so nobody else has to

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 21/08/2026

I’m the father of two young adults, why is my house still like a toddler’s after play?

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 21/08/2026

So, apparently if I’m not cringing at how much I’m talking about my books I’m not talking about them enough, so here goes… I’ve got two creative non-fics out. #pressonbook via Butterfly Effect and From Shrug To The Moon on the Amazons. See alt text for more details

Follow Press On Vinyl’s first year in business as they attempt to revolutionise the vinyl record market. Contact me directly for a paperback or ebooks available from the Butterfly Effect store

The Robert Nichols story. Punk singer, fanzine writer, Park Run addict and local history expert. Contains the most definitive and authorised version of how Shrug became the first UK band to play in East Berlin after the wall came down.
Paperback and Kindle version available here https://amzn.eu/d/0eRpjKLQ

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 17/08/2026

Got a wood pigeon nesting in the garden

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/08/2026

Fast food hits different in Porto

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 01/08/2026

We have one at home in a fish tank in the utility room. He’s called Max

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 29/07/2026

Bought this t-shirt the other day (ex-smoker here, what of it?) but it was pretty cheap looking and too big when it came. A couple of hot washes hasn’t made me feel any better about it so I’m just posting a picture of it here instead 🤷‍♂️

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 26/07/2026

Got to admit I was sceptical of the reworked Paris stage at #tdf last year and it was good to see a few tweaks this time. So much incredible action on the Montmartre climbs (full-on Belle Ville Rendezvouz and people hanging out of windows). And what a finish on the Champs Elysees. Absolutely class..

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/07/2026

Something for the weekend perhaps? amzn.eu/d/03czGSEi Paperback or Kindle Now with exclusive photos and updated bonus chapter

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/07/2026

As if it’s nearly twenty years since Arthur Lee died :(

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 30/06/2026

FYI I’ll be selling my Press On Vinyl book at the next Betterdaze record fair at Middlesbrough Town Hall on Saturday 11 July. Come down if you like

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 08/06/2026

🔴⚽️FROM SHRUG TO THE MOON: THE ROBERT NICHOLS STORY (SECOND EDITION) featuring a previously unpublished bonus chapter and photos🔴⚽️ For a limited time only available again exclusively on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats (free on Kindle Unlimited) here amzn.eu/d/0fU8No3E

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/05/2026

Still thinking about this mushroom leak and garlic from Propa Sunderland yesterday. I can’t think that I’ve eaten a better pie tbh. Brought it back to Boro in the car and it was still hot enough to eat too…

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 07/05/2026

Just found these. Who wants one? £15 plus p&p. More book news coming soon

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/05/2026

This time yesterday I was vaguely interested in going to Porto in the summer, by now I am completely obsessed with Francesinha

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 05/05/2026

The Met Gala is the most vulgar and public symptom of late-capitalist elitism… celebrities pretending they are normal people while playing at being billionaires…

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 20/04/2026

Charlie Sheen probs already contracted to play Trump in the four-hour David Fincher biopic #winning

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 18/04/2026

Every time I see this place I think ‘stoves’ must be Yorkshire parlance for oven bottom muffins

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 18/04/2026

I ❤️ this redevelopment in Stockton but it’s mad that the skyline is going to be dominated by a kids slide

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 11/04/2026

#brunch not had a Fray Bentos for like 25 years. Was not expecting much but you never forget that soggy undercooked pastry composition and I didn’t detect much in the way of steak

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 29/03/2026

Popped to the WSL Merseyside derby yesterday at Goodison (five goal thriller, all goals at the opposite end to where we were 🤷‍♂️) then a cheeky tour of the Bramley-Moore Dock stadium…

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 05/03/2026

This photo of Saltburn makes it look like a mountain top enclave. If I was Italian (cos they love an enclave) I would definitely holiday there…

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 01/03/2026

Yo trainer people, any idea what these are called so I can try and locate some deadstock? Yes I’ve googled the number on the tongue and I’ve tried scanning the data matrix thingy to no avail…

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 15/02/2026

My elderly father served prawn crackers with the Sunday roast today

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 08/02/2026

Made pancakes for brunch cos why the f not. Mine was the best

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 01/02/2026

Just remembered I’m going to see Teesside’s coolest new band on Friday 💃

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 01/02/2026

That ‘no festival today’ Echo article reminded me of Newcastle’s Hit The North in 2019 and DMA’s unflinching refusal to step down as headliners… what a day that was on socials as the running order collapsed from 79 to 12 artists 😂 chrisontheatre.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/t...

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/01/2026

Emma is going to love her Valentines scourer

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