Stoopalu

👇 Recommend a gawp at this, and Woods' blog generally

"had to take, had to put, the Curly Wurly back" youtu.be/pFYGOS15xwY?...

This one is 💥👌 Fans of Ian Allen books with colour photos of 50s/60s buses in damp scenes will dig this. Heavy things painted with cream enamel in fog/smog etc

This beautiful, surreal film is a masterpiece of stop motion. It's one of the very best by director Hermína Týrlová. Our new issue looks into The Blue Apron, and into Týrlová's love of putting life into mundane objects: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-invisib...

OVERHAUL (1957)

Digging the toy town brick biz over there

THE HEXHAM HEADS: In 1976, BBC early evening magazine show Nationwide aired a segment about a real-life folk horror story. Stone heads unearthed from a garden, paranormal activity and werewolves abound in this notorious report, thought lost until 2024...

Wall mounted thing

N guage trackside accessories

Refs to Hexham Heads always need reposting

Eastleigh

blue and red November skull

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Man, Barlow really fucking gets it. Short videos, worth a watch. art21.org/artist/phyll...

RAILBUS FOR THE 80'S (1978)

This is bloody great (but a bit pricey 😬). Dunno why it's taken so long for me to discover/get Phyllida Barlow. Piles! Lumps! Sticks! Slabs!

Leave them be! 🍂🐭 At this time of year, wildlife is making use of fallen leaves to shelter, find food, and make cosy hibernation chambers to prep for the long winter ahead. If you must clear leaves, move them to one side rather than remove them completely. 📷Yellow Necked Mouse © Alan Price

I finally got to go inside Battersea Power Station today, that temple to power converted to a cathedral of capitalism. My late Dad did his apprenticeship there back in the day - I wonder what he would have made of it all. Anyway, here is an old GLC model that was on display:

Work of art on flat roof

Note to self

Sausages

Jugend (Youth) Magazine 1896 Artist: E. Kneiss

Got this for maybe-a-bit-more-than-it-deserves-but-not-ridiculous amount. Pretty slender, smallish, mostly b&w, not as many pics as I'd like BUT a few nice ones in there.

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Have they taken away the 'followed by these people who you follow' thing from profiles?

*approaching the local drug dealer in my Fun Loving Criminals tshirt* ‘I’d like 5 scooby snacks please’

IF YOU’RE NOT EXPERIENCING TURBOCHARGED ENJOYMENT AT THIS MULTI SEGMENTAL CIRCULAR BRICK COMPLEX OF TALL CENTRAL CYLINDER WITH LOWER SURROUNDING CIRCLES AND PART CIRCLES THEN YOUR BRAIN MUST HAVE BEEN RING-FENCED TO EXPERIENCE ONLY MISERY.

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Mess of a dream last night, only clear memory is of a friend telling me they'd pissed all over the US ambassador

In 1974, I was in the Birmingham Evening Mail’s ‘Chipper Club’ run by the mysterious ‘Uncle Len’.