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Ian of Dorzet
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Lazy. Likes vinyl records, 70s& 80s scifi, history, art, food, beer (and making up for it in the gym...) etc. etc. Dislikes the News, history is bad enough.
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Announcing the #TPTV FESTIVAL OF FILM & TV at our NEW VENUE -
Tivoli, Wimborne Sunday 4th Oct 2026. A whole day of good old fashioned Film & TV fun of star guests (TBA), lost films, music, comedy and more! To book call 01202 855 566 or online here: buff.ly/PuHuVFe
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#NowPlaying Korn - See You On The Other Side

20th Anniversary 2025 #vinyl reissue. Truly a thing of beauty.
#VinylSky
#MetalSky
#MusicSky
#Korn
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
St Bernadus... 10% loveliness

#beer
#beersky
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Remembering all who have served and all who have fallen, who lie in home soil or in distant lands, or whose only grave is the sea. Remembering all who returned wounded in body or mind. Remembering all who grieve. #Remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Today's #SpaceRockSunday (well here anyway). Hawkwind and Doremi Fasol Latido. Their 3rd album, recorded, as so many iconic albums were, at Rockfield Studios and released in November 1972. It's still quite capable of whisking you away...

#Hawkwind
#Vinyl
#VinylSky #ClassicRock
#VinylCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Well, it's Jim Steinman's birthday today, so...

#NowPlaying
#Meatloaf
#BatOutOfHell
#JimSteinman
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This was a delightful setting for a book fair today, Dorset County Museum in Dorchester
#books
#bookfair
#booksky
#Dorset
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Some late night Patti Smith... ❤️ youtu.be/c_BcivBprM0?...
Patti Smith Group - Because the Night (Audio)
YouTube video by pattismithVEVO
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Today's #vintage #paperback finds: another Chris Foss-illustrated cover for AE van Vogt's Moonbeast (1975) and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. A very early 1972 copy.
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
*Public Service Announcement*

This deodorant will get the police called to you at Stuttgart Airport. Tbh I thought it was quite a nice deodorant and not worthy of police intervention.
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well I'm on the list for a transplant. Kind of weird waiting for someone to die to save my sight. Something difficult to comprehend, I'll be so incredibly grateful.

Also kinda weird having a part of someone else in me...
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hurrah! Eurotrash is back!
A bit saucy... a bit naughty... and a bit of the bizarre... that's the new Late Saturday Night offering in 'AFTER MIDNIGHT'

Beginning on #TalkingPicturesTV Saturday 11th October at 12:50am with EUROTRASH (Ep 1) and #KarenBlack in AUNTIE LEE'S MEAT PIES (1992) at 1:30am.
October 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I went on this boat while she was being fitted out at Barrow before handover. Had a nice tour with an ex RN dusty. Now feeling very old...
#OTD 2/10/2004 #RememberRCN -Former HMSubmarine UPHOLDER accepted by the RCN, renamed CHICOUTIMI at Faslane, Scotland and is the last of four Victoria class submarines accepted by the RCN. (RCN Photo)
October 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
While I'm on the subject of #theDamned here's Dave Vanian looking beautiful with one of the best riffs ever...

#NewRose

youtu.be/TUxFQ5QBiYk?...
The Damned - New Rose (Official HD video)
YouTube video by UnionSquareMusic
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We've had a very nice young lady join us at work. Her name is Eloise, and now each time she comes over to chat, this is going round in my head...

#theDamned

youtu.be/b31L4P7G5j8?...
The Damned - Eloise
YouTube video by TheDamnedVEVO
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just home from the gym. Late night/long day, I guess, but if it wasn't for that place I'd be climbing the bloody walls.

Space and time to decompress as well as essential for fitness at my age.

#over60fitness
#gymsky
#fitnesssky
#armandcoreday
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Time for a boogie? It's #StatusQuoSunday here...

Hello! - Released September 1973 on Vertigo

#Vinyl
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#StatusQuo
#Boogie
September 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Yesterday's happy charity shop find was this lovely boxset of James Herbert novels. His books always gave me a scare! I read The Spear and The Fog in my teens but not the others...
#horror
#JamesHerbert
September 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A late good morning! #NowPlaying Amorphis - Silent Waters. Finnish progressive metal, their 8th studio album released in 2007. Another record not played in too long a time, i need more of this.
#VinylSky
#Vinyl
#VinylCommunity
#Metal
#MetalSky
#ProgressiveMetal
#Amorphis
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM