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Berks of DeFrights

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Creative and cute. Not my words, Carol. The words of an Etsy marketing email. Design, Illustration, Gardens, Furniture, not AI. Ever. English in New England. Low T Man, High Tea Man. Let's get tonight's horror show on the road...

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · May 6

In the first story in From Beyond the Grave, there's a short sequence illustrating the passage of time as new tenants take on a flat, and Tony Curtis gets to design / dress three additional sets. And we go teak - rosewood - chrome...

Couple playing backgammon on a teak dining table with teak chairs and green cushions. Green jacquard wallpaper, a teak room divider / bookcase, a teak sideboard with large cream coloured lamp, and an armchair with curved sides - possibly bentwood. Difficult to tell from the screengrab.

man on the phone, standing in a lighter coloured room. Off white / green walls. Purple lamp. Dark rosewood furniture, including modular wall units, a matching sideboard, and a dining table and chairs. Large patterned armchair in brown on white.

Group of people in a room with purple and blue large patterned wallpaper. Chrome bookshelves, side chairs and a table.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 17h

There was always the slim chance that a murderer dressed as a skeleton might get them, too…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 18h

Kids is it? Constantly going back and forth outside? In the middle of the road? At high speed? On e-motorbikes? That let out a high pitched whine? Is that what it is now? Groups of them? Like they’re off to solve a mystery that requires annoying transportation?

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 20h

Yippee ki-yay, Mother Goose Plucker

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 21h

Remember to put out the traditional *checks notes* Porch Goose this Christmas...

Amazon listing for a porch goose Christmas Outfit. A goose in a ruffled dress and hat that makes it look like a Christmas Tree.

For reasons.

Apparently.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 21h

Okay. I WILL buy it then. It was touch and go for a second, but you pulled me back to the side of sense....

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 21h

Oh no! Just saw the sad news about Drew Struzan. Will need to go and sit down for a bit…

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

The 1903 update nudged it a bit arts and crafty. It’s lovely. Apart from being lochless…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

We’re off and running, lads…

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

I may just have fallen hopelessly in love.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

‘Netflix greenlight ‘Greenlight’ a new action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as Jeff Greenlight’

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

Mark Wahlberg.

Put him in everything.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

Sir John Mills in Zombi 2.

Ronnie Corbett in Get Carter.

Derek Guyler in A Serbian Film.

Peggy Mount in The Cannonball Run.

Donald Wolfitt in Top Gun: Maverick.

Anton Rodgers in Stop, Or Mom Will Shoot.

Angela Lansbury in Emmanuelle.

Sora is going to be the next big slop generator. Trampling all over copyright to make sludge for idiots.

‘Want to see Marilyn in Game of Thrones?’ No. No I do not.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 22h

Had a doctor’s appointment this morning.

My mum rang me every 30 seconds throughout. Despite me messaging her telling her to stop and that I’d call when I got my home.

It was nothing important.

The doctor thought it was hilarious.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

‘a sense of gloom’ though.

Silly gooses, being all down in the dumps because the entire country has been flattened, with no remaining infrastructure and the loss of life of tens upon tens of thousands of people, and the future might be an orange cunt and an empire of tacky casinos.

The New York Times motoring along at peak New York Times:

Even amid celebrations, a sense of gloom pervades Gaza.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh. So much faffing. So much swapping to DIN friendly cables. Moved the Beomaster upstairs along with the Beovox that I rescued earlier in the summer. Recapped and sounding MUCH better in the lounge now, with a bit of room correction too. Sounds shit on the phone, mind, and Loons was not impressed.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Those were the charges the police brought against me, yes….

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

The handles will be elm or ash compared to the walnut veneers, so they need to come off for me to be able to sand everything evenly, and to have a chance at colour matching. It’s unlikely they’d have been glued at the factory. This is probably a weird repair from down the years…

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Little more brave with the heat on the putty knife, and a little more gentle with the rubber mallet. No damaged veneer. But still a fight. Some Tannoy monitors in the background getting their dented cabs repaired too.

A loose handle sat on top of a drawer. A speaker in the background.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

My socks are on the other side of the room. It charmed them right off....

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Name an Italian more worthy of an American holiday than Columbus

Elderly man who drives the Fiat 500 in front of Bond during Spectre. Mouth agape as Bond pushes him along at high speed in his Aston Martin.

He probably says "Mamma Mia" at some point.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

The two sides of the same bespectacled coin...

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Your superhero power is making me like things that aren’t my cup of tea.

That was all very charming!

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

I'm holding out for Browns Lane...hopefully there'll be some iconic spare parts lying around for my car.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. You’ll be able to gauge how it’s going by the growing amount of swearing*

*more swearing

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 1d

A gentle furniture reminder that glue is frequently not the answer to your problems. Especially not ‘some glue I found in the shed’.

After battling with a heat gun, water and acetone I’ve managed to remove two handles from a bedroom suite. Ten to go.

Minor damage to veneers.

A loose handle sat on top of a drawer front that has the veneer glued and clamped down where there’s been damage removing the handles.

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