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Antiques and appraisals, vintage stuff, cycling, cats, rabbits. Moominologist. Formerly Cyclopunk, back in the blue bird days.
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1941(ish) Beswick character jug - supposedly Churchill, but more like Martin Clunes. #vintage #oldstuff #appraisals

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Going to be weird watching races and not cheering for Sanne Cant. She's been the top rider for as long as I've followed #cyclocross, so she feels to me like a permanent feature of the sport.

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Conker's Bad Fur Day, featuring drinking binges, smoking, graphic violence, adult themes and (a lot of) poo jokes. The 4th rarest Nintendo 64 game, according to some. #vintagegaming #vintage #retrogaming

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Introduced my 22-year-assistant to Fighting Fantasy books today. He reckons they look as much fun as XBox games...I explained they really weren't 🤣 #vintage #fightingfantasy

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Watched The Illusionist earlier. Not a bad film, but would have been better if Edward Norton with that hairstyle and goatee didn't remind me so much of Noel Edmonds.

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The Type 746. So iconic that, even now, 58 years after it was introduced, it is What A Telephone Looks Like. All models were named after their colour, incidentally, except for the brown one which was for some reason called The Yeoman.

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Nice little find - a 1912 Verner Pattern VI compass, made in 1912. Its original owner scratched his name into the case, and I found some history: he went away to fight in 1914 and it pleased me to find he survived...

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Going to see James Blunt on Sunday. And I don't care, because I always liked him.

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Not surprised. I went to see the show in London with a couple of friends who are fans, and there was an unpleasant undercurrent in quite a lot of his material. It was also shit. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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About as iconic as mid-century modern icons get...1975 Anglepoise Model 90 in mushroom grey.

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Beware the Fanny Witch!

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💖 Free women-only e-bike training next month in Brent by Cycle Sisters & Lime - tell a friend! Sunday 2 Feb www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-only... Friday 7 Feb www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-only...

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Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate have a race over a cliff edge. Who wins? 1. Robinson 2. Tate 3. Society

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RIP, Sara Piffer. Such a superb young athlete. Such a loss to #ProCycling. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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Gutted that these aren't my size. Gutted, I tell yer.

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Strikes me that Tina Fey would probably be a pretty decent POTUS.

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Nice bit of kit: Sansui G-301 receiver amp, 1978 #vintage #vintagetech #vintageaudio

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Born in Glasgow on this day in 1923: the greatest poet Britain has produced, Ivor Cutler.

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This is, by far, the most metal AF song ever recorded - a relentless onslaught from start to finish. Utterly brutal. youtu.be/atY7ymXAcRQ?...

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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about this universe is it's one in which Lee Scratch Perry and Ivor Cutler never made an album together. #WhatCouldHaveBeen

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The Autocar, Sept. 14th 1923. Just got a collection of a few hundred, some older than this one and the latest from the 1950s. Fascinating, especially the adverts! #vintage #oldstuff #vintagecars

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Well, this one took me a while...it's a bit different to the sorts of antiques and vintage stuff I usually have in for appraisal. I knew it's a carburettor, but what sort? Turns out it was originally fitted to a 380ci V8 1962 Ford Thunderbird! #vintage #oldstuff #classiccars

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Jean-Marie Le Pen has died. Good. Pity it wasn't sooner.

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Anyone like to make a donation to the charity I work for? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38779190...

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RIP Jimmy Carter.

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Pretty much everyone must have wondered what would happen if someone combined a mediocre pair of binoculars with an equally mediocre camera. Well, friends, wonder no more - I present to you... the spectacularly craptacular Tasco 7800! #vintagecameras #vintage #oldstuff #MuseumOfReallyCrapThings

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Ferrero Rocher count: about 92 (Probably; I lost count around midday.) #Xmas24

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Love a bit of vintage Tri-Ang! #vintage #oldstuff #vintagetoys (The name, incidentally, was chosen because the company was founded by the three Lines brothers - and three lines makes a triangle.)

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Would kill for a big lump of decent mandelbrot right now.

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Just a reminder that Gwen John was a really bloody good painter. #art

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Accident with a vintage bottle at work today, so I currently smell of Miss Dior. Quite like it, actually. Might make it my signature scent. #vintage #oldstuff

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Here's an interesting one... a 1946 door porter in the style of a Victorian door porter in the style of a rococo door porter. So, a 20th Century repro of a 19th Century repro of an 18th Century original. #vintage #oldstuff #appraisals

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Since we're being nice to each other and I might not get death threats for daring to deviate from the norm, did anyone else never really like Fred Dibnah very much...?

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

There is no food that is better than the onion bhaji.

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"China is the world’s biggest producer of honey" says The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/business/202... I suspect it's actually bees.

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My only criticism of garlic is it doesn't taste as strongly of garlic as I would like.

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More vintage #Scalextric - Ferrari, Jaguar, McLaren and Alpine, all from 1972. #vintage #vintagetoys #slotcars #oldstuff

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Swiss Cycling unveils Nexetis to boost young women’s development

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Pros of watching films illegally uploaded to Youtube: You watch films for free. Cons of watching films illegally uploaded to Youtube: They change the film titles to try to escape the anti-illegal upload algorithm, so you have no idea what the films are actually called and can't talk about them.

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So, I basically spent the last week getting paid for building vintage Lego sets. Tough job, but someone's got to do it. And I made damn sure it was me. 😎 #vintagetoys

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