Scampy
@scampyspiro.bsky.social
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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Remember, there’s late night shopping available tonight
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Remember, there’s late night shopping available tonight
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 23
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 23
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
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#Christmas 1989: Games from WH Smith
(+Screwball Scramble; Junior Dingbats; Pictionary Junior; Greedy Pigs; Market Day; Creepy Crawlies Game; Battery Operated Fishing Game; Haunted Wood; What's The Time; No Room At The Zoo; Leap Frog; Mini Pocket Games; Orbit Anti-Gravity Puzzles, and more)
(+Screwball Scramble; Junior Dingbats; Pictionary Junior; Greedy Pigs; Market Day; Creepy Crawlies Game; Battery Operated Fishing Game; Haunted Wood; What's The Time; No Room At The Zoo; Leap Frog; Mini Pocket Games; Orbit Anti-Gravity Puzzles, and more)
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#Christmas 1989: Games from WH Smith
(+Screwball Scramble; Junior Dingbats; Pictionary Junior; Greedy Pigs; Market Day; Creepy Crawlies Game; Battery Operated Fishing Game; Haunted Wood; What's The Time; No Room At The Zoo; Leap Frog; Mini Pocket Games; Orbit Anti-Gravity Puzzles, and more)
(+Screwball Scramble; Junior Dingbats; Pictionary Junior; Greedy Pigs; Market Day; Creepy Crawlies Game; Battery Operated Fishing Game; Haunted Wood; What's The Time; No Room At The Zoo; Leap Frog; Mini Pocket Games; Orbit Anti-Gravity Puzzles, and more)
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Good morning. It was good to be back in the fields.
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Good morning. It was good to be back in the fields.
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R.I.P. Chris Rea
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
R.I.P. Chris Rea
Incidentally, my review of Rise of The Guardians is coming, but will now have to wait until 2026. Still debating whether to post it in the new year as a late Christmas review or to hold it over until Easter after all.
December 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Incidentally, my review of Rise of The Guardians is coming, but will now have to wait until 2026. Still debating whether to post it in the new year as a late Christmas review or to hold it over until Easter after all.
Here's my Christmas gift to you all. A retrospective on one of the most perturbing - but also brilliant - comedy specials of all time. I speak of course of One Foot In The Grave's "The Man Who Blew Away" from 1994. What Yuletide has since been complete without a round of The Laughing Policeman?
The Man Who Blew Away (One Foot In The Grave)
Content warning: Suicide The Christmas of 1994 was a Christmas quite unlike any other, all on account of what was happening at Victor Meldr...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Here's my Christmas gift to you all. A retrospective on one of the most perturbing - but also brilliant - comedy specials of all time. I speak of course of One Foot In The Grave's "The Man Who Blew Away" from 1994. What Yuletide has since been complete without a round of The Laughing Policeman?
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BBC1 Christmas Ident - 1981
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
BBC1 Christmas Ident - 1981
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Wrote a piece on Look! Hear! www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2025/12/look... Late-1970s BBC Midlands arts and music programme aimed at the local youth.
Look! Hear!
The home of all those British TV shows you thought you'd forgotten about...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Wrote a piece on Look! Hear! www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2025/12/look... Late-1970s BBC Midlands arts and music programme aimed at the local youth.
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The Ladybird Christmas tree.
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Ladybird Christmas tree.
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
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some paw portraits painted by my previous groups of rats! Recently been tempted to get the paints out again for the current girls 🤔
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
some paw portraits painted by my previous groups of rats! Recently been tempted to get the paints out again for the current girls 🤔
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#Christmas 1992: Movies and Documentaries from Our Price
(+Wild at Heart; Hearts of Darkness; Misery; The Silence of the Lambs; Total Recall; Akira; Robin Hood; Robocop and Robocop 2; When Harry Met Sally; Dirty Dancing; Only Fools and Horses; Fawlty Towers - The Germans; Scorsese x 4, and more)
(+Wild at Heart; Hearts of Darkness; Misery; The Silence of the Lambs; Total Recall; Akira; Robin Hood; Robocop and Robocop 2; When Harry Met Sally; Dirty Dancing; Only Fools and Horses; Fawlty Towers - The Germans; Scorsese x 4, and more)
December 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#Christmas 1992: Movies and Documentaries from Our Price
(+Wild at Heart; Hearts of Darkness; Misery; The Silence of the Lambs; Total Recall; Akira; Robin Hood; Robocop and Robocop 2; When Harry Met Sally; Dirty Dancing; Only Fools and Horses; Fawlty Towers - The Germans; Scorsese x 4, and more)
(+Wild at Heart; Hearts of Darkness; Misery; The Silence of the Lambs; Total Recall; Akira; Robin Hood; Robocop and Robocop 2; When Harry Met Sally; Dirty Dancing; Only Fools and Horses; Fawlty Towers - The Germans; Scorsese x 4, and more)
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It's the Christmas Creamguide! open.substack.com/pub/creamgui...
CHRISTMAS CREAMGUIDE WEEK ONE: 20th-26th December 2025
Pulling the rabbit of verbal spontaneity from the hat of immediate circumstance
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December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's the Christmas Creamguide! open.substack.com/pub/creamgui...
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BBC1 Christmas Ident - 1979
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
BBC1 Christmas Ident - 1979
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#Christmas 1999: Clothing and Footwear from Marks and Spencer
(+Tarzan pyjamas; Tarzan nightdress; and Tarzan slippers)
(+Tarzan pyjamas; Tarzan nightdress; and Tarzan slippers)
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#Christmas 1999: Clothing and Footwear from Marks and Spencer
(+Tarzan pyjamas; Tarzan nightdress; and Tarzan slippers)
(+Tarzan pyjamas; Tarzan nightdress; and Tarzan slippers)
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♪ When you're down and troubled ♪
♪ And you need a helping hand ♪
♪ And nothing ♪
♪ Oh, nothing is going right ♪
♪ And you need a helping hand ♪
♪ And nothing ♪
♪ Oh, nothing is going right ♪
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
♪ When you're down and troubled ♪
♪ And you need a helping hand ♪
♪ And nothing ♪
♪ Oh, nothing is going right ♪
♪ And you need a helping hand ♪
♪ And nothing ♪
♪ Oh, nothing is going right ♪
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Dec 1991: Cognac ad from Courvoisier
«And the evening began.»
«And the evening began.»
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dec 1991: Cognac ad from Courvoisier
«And the evening began.»
«And the evening began.»
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i'm teaching yuzu how to do my taxes
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
i'm teaching yuzu how to do my taxes
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New feature on the Ephemeral 80s site is this 1983 Butterkist Popcorn Packet ephemeral80s.co.uk/2025/12/butt... and, yes, it was dug up by a fox after 40 years underground.
Butterkist Popcorn Packet (1983)
Rediscovering Britain's forgotten past from the 1980s. One curious, ephemeral item at a time.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New feature on the Ephemeral 80s site is this 1983 Butterkist Popcorn Packet ephemeral80s.co.uk/2025/12/butt... and, yes, it was dug up by a fox after 40 years underground.
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Paul McCartney in Abbey Road studios during the recording of ‘Standing Stone’, 1997.
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Paul McCartney in Abbey Road studios during the recording of ‘Standing Stone’, 1997.