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Diurnal scribbler, rat fancier, kitsch aficionado. Mollusc who never found my rock. Some would call me a hipster. Team Jacques. 🎳🐀 https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 1d

THE ANGELUS KLAXON

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 3d

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

Family of four plasticine penguins standing in their kitchen in front of a microphone.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

Home through the rain (1969)
Artist: John Berry

Dusk in the pouring rain at Bank station in London.
Reflections in puddles. A few bedraggled figures make their way to and from the Tube

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RetroOoOoOo~ Commercial Screams @retro-commercials.bsky.social · 3d

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 3d

I remember being flummoxed by it as a kid, since I didn't get why the aliens would only show up at the end and then immediately leave. But now I think the aliens are the least important thing about it. It's all about the build-up and anticipation, which is beautiful.

Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 4d

This year we’re going ghost with our pumpkins.🎃
#dogsofbluesky

Teavee the Chinese Crested standing beside a white pumpkin.

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 4d

The strangest thing in this lot so far is a short reel that's literally just a black and white stop sign zooming at the camera. I've no context for that one.

Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 4d

Update: It's not the rain on Oxfordshire ad, although it does open with someone carrying an umbrella. From the opening frames I'm having trouble identifying it; I'll give it a more thorough inspection later.

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Old UK Catalogues @oldukcatalogues.bsky.social · 4d

1989: Bedrooms from Habitat

(+Bibury limed oak bedroom)

This page advertises Bibury limed oak bedroom furniture from Habitat. It showcases a complete bedroom set, highlighting the range of fitted units, ease of installation, and design features. The ad emphasizes the practical and aesthetic aspects of the furniture, including its solid wood details and versatile design.

(+Bibury limed oak bedroom)

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5d

“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

A mixed herd of cattle seek shelter in the lee of a hedge

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 5d

"You're still not in your own world, Homer.
I can get you home, but you have to do exactly as..."

"This is indeed a disturbing universe."

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 5d

From the looks of it, it's too short to be the one where a man takes an axe to the leg, besides which I think I can make out a Universal rating, so that narrows it down a bit. Dare I hope for the one about acid rain on Oxfordshire? That is peak cinema advertising.

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 5d

I recently acquired a lot of 35mm cinema ads, the absolute jewel of which is THIS. All of Friends of The Earth’s cinema ads were classics. I cannot wait to open it and discover which one I have.

Reel of 35mm film, with the hand-written label “Friends of The Earth”.

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 5d

Here's my contribution to the Secret Places and Trippy Houses blogathon hosted by @takinguproom.bsky.social

I cover the 2022 horror "Skinamarink", which in my books is an instant classic. Analog crackle, trippy old school animation, extended shots of ill-lit hallways. Seriously, am I in Heaven?

Skinamarink (aka Can We Sleep Downstairs Tonight?)

The thing that hurt me the most about Kyle Edward Ball's Skinamarink (2022) was how young its central characters were. Going in, this was s...

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Old UK Christmas Catalogues @oldukcataloguesxm.bsky.social · 5d

#Christmas 1994: Pens from WH Smith

(+HASH)

This page showcases a selection of high-end pens, categorized into 'messenger pens' and 'showcase pens'. Each pen set includes a matching ballpoint pen or rollerball, offered free with purchase. The page features product photography and pricing, along with a promotional offer.

(+HASH)

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SQUEAKROSS: Home Squeak Home @alblune.bsky.social · 6d

the Rat way sanctuary that provides care for rats and that was feature in squeakross needs help!

If you can support them, please consider donating!!

🐀 iwantitratway.com/sanctuary/#w... 🐀

Instagram Post from the rat way sanctuary. Picture shows a rat being held.

text reads:
Hello, everyone. It's hard to be so direct with our fundraising requests, but we are pretty desperate. Donations have been slow this month, our expenses are piling up, and now Shadow is back at the vet today for an emergency visit. She has had a persistent cloudiness in her left eye that we and our vet have been monitoring, and today the eye appears sunken in with swelling around the socket. Our vet is concerned there may be a mass behind her eye. ��

We have been treading water with an approximately $2000 deficit in our vet fund, and today's visit could easily add another few hundred to that total. An emergency visit runs $155, and skull rads will be another $275, and that's before any potential treatments are considered. We know times are really tough right now and most everyone is struggling. Please take care of yourselves first, but if you have extra to spare, we appreciate it so much.

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101 Films @101filmsuk.bsky.social · 7d

New to the BLACK LABEL this December, the gloriously camp comedy horror Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988).

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 9d

“By the lakeside”
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

The illustration shows the groups of birds on a muddy bank on a damp October day

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 9d

"Stuck-up Riverdale punks... Think they're too good for me."

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 10d

Also, Detective Dog's girlfriend is clearly a collie. Back then I could have sworn she was a fox. I've been living a lie all these years.

Two cartoon dogs standing in a darkened forest. Text reads "Darker".

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Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 10d

The detail I had completely forgotten about and was taken by surprise by was Deal's eleventh-hour expression of remorse. Only a couple of episodes ago he was cackling at the thought of those kids being left to die in that shed.

Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 10d

Badger Girl as a whole might not be as iconic as Geordie Racer, but Mick ultimately is a legend...despite eight episodes' worth of evidence to the contrary.

(I wonder what happened to Mick anyway? They sort of brush over his fate at the end.)

Scampy @scampyspiro.bsky.social · 10d

Revisited "Look and Read: Badger Girl" and spent much of it awkwardly struggling to justify my childhood infatuation with Mick. I mean he's both a git AND an idiot. Then at the end he rides his motorcycle like a boss and saves the kids from going over the dam and it all came flooding back to me.

Still from "Look and Read: Badger Girl". Man riding a motorcycle over a steep drop against a clear blue sky.

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Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · 13d

Oct 1989: Ad for The Witches of Eastwick and Moonstruck

«TWO CHANCES TO GET HOLD OF CHER.»

This image is an advertisement featuring Cher. It promotes two of her movies, The Witches of Eastwick and Moonstruck. The ad features a large portrait of Cher, with the movie posters for both films displayed below.

TWO CHANCES TO GET HOLD OF CHER.

JACK NICHOLSON
SUSAN MICHELLE
CHER SARANDON PERIPER
Stereo
THREE BEALTIME WOMEN
ONE LUCKY DEML
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK 18
BROW WINER BROSAWARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
CHER-NICOLAS CAGE
MOONSTRUCK
PG
MOONSTRUCK Starring VINCENT GARDENIA
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS and DANNY AIELLO
BOX
OFFICE
A Division of Parkfield Group PLC

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 14d

Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.

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