@smallslicesofme.bsky.social
Our local one waits to creak its door open and swallow unwary travellers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our local one waits to creak its door open and swallow unwary travellers.
I have been wondering about whether Saruman put it out on Magrathea at some point.
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I have been wondering about whether Saruman put it out on Magrathea at some point.
I was in a very old-fashioned bakery yesterday, which serves, cheap, stodgy sandwiches, like I recall from my youth.
It even has a cold cabinet with “Refrigerated Display” written over it in fat old-fashioned letters. If if it doesn’t, it should.
It even has a cold cabinet with “Refrigerated Display” written over it in fat old-fashioned letters. If if it doesn’t, it should.
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I was in a very old-fashioned bakery yesterday, which serves, cheap, stodgy sandwiches, like I recall from my youth.
It even has a cold cabinet with “Refrigerated Display” written over it in fat old-fashioned letters. If if it doesn’t, it should.
It even has a cold cabinet with “Refrigerated Display” written over it in fat old-fashioned letters. If if it doesn’t, it should.
I did wonder if Amazon were taking the piss this morning.
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I did wonder if Amazon were taking the piss this morning.
Do you feel in need of this as a coda?
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Do you feel in need of this as a coda?
At last -the kind of sports bar we’ve been waiting for.
October 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
At last -the kind of sports bar we’ve been waiting for.
This is Marvin, performing his single “Paranoid Android” on Blue Peter.
Well, that’s the evening up in smoke.
Well, that’s the evening up in smoke.
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is Marvin, performing his single “Paranoid Android” on Blue Peter.
Well, that’s the evening up in smoke.
Well, that’s the evening up in smoke.
Nightmare fuel image of the day.
(I’m sure most of you will be able to guess where this comes from, but still)
(I’m sure most of you will be able to guess where this comes from, but still)
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nightmare fuel image of the day.
(I’m sure most of you will be able to guess where this comes from, but still)
(I’m sure most of you will be able to guess where this comes from, but still)
I think if it gets filmed, this will be the Temple To The New Gods.
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I think if it gets filmed, this will be the Temple To The New Gods.
First day of holiday, and have ended up (mostly by choice) spending it at home.
My listening choices are really getting into the festival spirit.
My listening choices are really getting into the festival spirit.
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
First day of holiday, and have ended up (mostly by choice) spending it at home.
My listening choices are really getting into the festival spirit.
My listening choices are really getting into the festival spirit.
Just saw this, and thought it had an air of your creation about it…
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Just saw this, and thought it had an air of your creation about it…
Trying to put my evening to good use for once.
Bloody hell, this is good stuff.
Bloody hell, this is good stuff.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trying to put my evening to good use for once.
Bloody hell, this is good stuff.
Bloody hell, this is good stuff.
“You know what it takes to sell the things Emily brings back to the shop?
(He pulls something out of his briefcase)
It takes brass balls to sell that stuff”
(Glengarry Glen Puss)
(He pulls something out of his briefcase)
It takes brass balls to sell that stuff”
(Glengarry Glen Puss)
September 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“You know what it takes to sell the things Emily brings back to the shop?
(He pulls something out of his briefcase)
It takes brass balls to sell that stuff”
(Glengarry Glen Puss)
(He pulls something out of his briefcase)
It takes brass balls to sell that stuff”
(Glengarry Glen Puss)
Let's go."
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for Bagpuss”
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for Bagpuss”
September 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Let's go."
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for Bagpuss”
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for Bagpuss”
Listening to this. It is absolutely brilliant.
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Listening to this. It is absolutely brilliant.
No. Piss off.
September 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
No. Piss off.
Card seen in Gosh Comics in Soho.
August 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Card seen in Gosh Comics in Soho.
Per a post elsewhere, this is from a cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social (apologies to creator if this is nit true)
Think I might use this as my email signature, as it sums up the tenor of these times exactly.
Think I might use this as my email signature, as it sums up the tenor of these times exactly.
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Per a post elsewhere, this is from a cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social (apologies to creator if this is nit true)
Think I might use this as my email signature, as it sums up the tenor of these times exactly.
Think I might use this as my email signature, as it sums up the tenor of these times exactly.
I wonder if there’s now an automated system that posts this exact headline, with a lightly randomised story under it, five days before every holiday weekend?
August 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wonder if there’s now an automated system that posts this exact headline, with a lightly randomised story under it, five days before every holiday weekend?
Walking through central York in mid-August, at a difficulty level of 8.1 and an irritation index of 317.8.
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Walking through central York in mid-August, at a difficulty level of 8.1 and an irritation index of 317.8.
The Groom of the Stool’s Side-Hustle.
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Groom of the Stool’s Side-Hustle.
A new low in the social media “oh, wasn’t it great before smartphones” nostalgia bullshit wave.
I’d be interested to go back to Waterloo in 1972 and ask everyone if they felt they were in a bustling hub of life, actors in little pieces of drama in the grand theatre of life.
They’d lock me up.
I’d be interested to go back to Waterloo in 1972 and ask everyone if they felt they were in a bustling hub of life, actors in little pieces of drama in the grand theatre of life.
They’d lock me up.
July 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A new low in the social media “oh, wasn’t it great before smartphones” nostalgia bullshit wave.
I’d be interested to go back to Waterloo in 1972 and ask everyone if they felt they were in a bustling hub of life, actors in little pieces of drama in the grand theatre of life.
They’d lock me up.
I’d be interested to go back to Waterloo in 1972 and ask everyone if they felt they were in a bustling hub of life, actors in little pieces of drama in the grand theatre of life.
They’d lock me up.
This was fun. Very glad to get to Bradford, which isn’t a phrase you hear very often (I do like Bradford, but in this case it was simply relief at beating the travel demons
July 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This was fun. Very glad to get to Bradford, which isn’t a phrase you hear very often (I do like Bradford, but in this case it was simply relief at beating the travel demons
And not a Ryanair scratch-card in sight.
(From “The Wonder-Book of Aircraft”, published 1931, which I picked up today in Cromer)
(From “The Wonder-Book of Aircraft”, published 1931, which I picked up today in Cromer)
July 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And not a Ryanair scratch-card in sight.
(From “The Wonder-Book of Aircraft”, published 1931, which I picked up today in Cromer)
(From “The Wonder-Book of Aircraft”, published 1931, which I picked up today in Cromer)
@pastpostcard.bsky.social is this your giraffe?
July 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@pastpostcard.bsky.social is this your giraffe?