Zaph Camden
@zaphcamden.bsky.social
Powered by coffee, pizza and forest bathing. Prefers eclectic moderation to intense fandom. Sharing my life with my Groupie 💕
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Zaph Camden
@zaphcamden.bsky.social
· Jun 17
A timeline cleanse, if needed.
It’s Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir!
We’re happy because we’re from Europe.
And we have each other.
And also watermelon.
🍉
It’s Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir!
We’re happy because we’re from Europe.
And we have each other.
And also watermelon.
🍉
As 2025 ends, I’m reminded of my late father, who one Hogmanay got rather the worse for drink, looked at me and said ”It’s a funny business, isn’t it, son? We’re all just sitting here waiting for a bloody clock to chime!”
Cheers, dad, wherever you are.
And a Happy new year to all of you at home!
Cheers, dad, wherever you are.
And a Happy new year to all of you at home!
a clock with roman numerals and a crescent moon
ALT: a clock with roman numerals and a crescent moon
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
As 2025 ends, I’m reminded of my late father, who one Hogmanay got rather the worse for drink, looked at me and said ”It’s a funny business, isn’t it, son? We’re all just sitting here waiting for a bloody clock to chime!”
Cheers, dad, wherever you are.
And a Happy new year to all of you at home!
Cheers, dad, wherever you are.
And a Happy new year to all of you at home!
Zaph & Groupie 2025 1/3;
Jan: Groupie discovers YFH (yoga from home)
Feb: Having fun with Cyndi Lauper
Mar: Travelling around blagging free food in posh cafes
Apr: Enjoying the stillness in the local stone circle
Jan: Groupie discovers YFH (yoga from home)
Feb: Having fun with Cyndi Lauper
Mar: Travelling around blagging free food in posh cafes
Apr: Enjoying the stillness in the local stone circle
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Zaph & Groupie 2025 1/3;
Jan: Groupie discovers YFH (yoga from home)
Feb: Having fun with Cyndi Lauper
Mar: Travelling around blagging free food in posh cafes
Apr: Enjoying the stillness in the local stone circle
Jan: Groupie discovers YFH (yoga from home)
Feb: Having fun with Cyndi Lauper
Mar: Travelling around blagging free food in posh cafes
Apr: Enjoying the stillness in the local stone circle
ATV Midlands, the Midlands in general, and that period of time a few years either side of 1980 doesn’t get enough love, in my opinion.
The penultimate - and suprisingly NSFW, missus - ATV Today* from this day in 1981.
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
@tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
@tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
[720p/50p] ITV ATV | ATV Today and continuity | 30th December 1981
YouTube video by Sticky tape 'n' rust
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
ATV Midlands, the Midlands in general, and that period of time a few years either side of 1980 doesn’t get enough love, in my opinion.
If someone can explain why Everybody Wants To Rule The World has been stuck in my head for most of the last 24 hours, I’d love to hear it.
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears on Apple Music
Song · 1985 · Duration 4:11
music.apple.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If someone can explain why Everybody Wants To Rule The World has been stuck in my head for most of the last 24 hours, I’d love to hear it.
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...
It‘s probably just as well Groupie doesn’t drink. She gets quite emotional at this time of the year as it is.
Anyway, 2025 has been lovely. Not continuously, of course, no year is, but it’s been pretty damn good for Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir and the surreal life we’ve built together.
Anyway, 2025 has been lovely. Not continuously, of course, no year is, but it’s been pretty damn good for Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir and the surreal life we’ve built together.
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It‘s probably just as well Groupie doesn’t drink. She gets quite emotional at this time of the year as it is.
Anyway, 2025 has been lovely. Not continuously, of course, no year is, but it’s been pretty damn good for Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir and the surreal life we’ve built together.
Anyway, 2025 has been lovely. Not continuously, of course, no year is, but it’s been pretty damn good for Zaph Camden and Groupie Jonsdottir and the surreal life we’ve built together.
On the patch-up table at work I noticed a letter written by a small child to someone/something called Candycane, who the child will miss and looks forward to seeing again next year.
There suddenly seemed to be something in my eye…
There suddenly seemed to be something in my eye…
December 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
On the patch-up table at work I noticed a letter written by a small child to someone/something called Candycane, who the child will miss and looks forward to seeing again next year.
There suddenly seemed to be something in my eye…
There suddenly seemed to be something in my eye…
Groupie has informed me there’s an Only Fans calendar for sale in town.
Humour like this reassures me I made the right choice of girl years ago.
Humour like this reassures me I made the right choice of girl years ago.
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Groupie has informed me there’s an Only Fans calendar for sale in town.
Humour like this reassures me I made the right choice of girl years ago.
Humour like this reassures me I made the right choice of girl years ago.
Two days to go, and across town where Groupie is working at the moment it has arbitrarily become Take Your Dog To Work Day 🐶
Woof.
Woof.
December 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Two days to go, and across town where Groupie is working at the moment it has arbitrarily become Take Your Dog To Work Day 🐶
Woof.
Woof.
Noticed today is the start of week one, which makes 2026 a 53-week year. It’s also a 13-moon year and I’ve got the first eleven days of January off work.
Realising, with horror, that this is exactly how 2020 started…
Realising, with horror, that this is exactly how 2020 started…
a cartoon of a virus playing a trumpet and singing into a microphone that says tiktok @trickytriet
ALT: a cartoon of a virus playing a trumpet and singing into a microphone that says tiktok @trickytriet
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Noticed today is the start of week one, which makes 2026 a 53-week year. It’s also a 13-moon year and I’ve got the first eleven days of January off work.
Realising, with horror, that this is exactly how 2020 started…
Realising, with horror, that this is exactly how 2020 started…
Groupie on free heating Sundays 😊
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Groupie on free heating Sundays 😊
Some year this season is going to kill me, you know.
Well, it won’t be this year. 😛
Well, it won’t be this year. 😛
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Some year this season is going to kill me, you know.
Well, it won’t be this year. 😛
Well, it won’t be this year. 😛
A certain political party decided today was the perfect day to send a mass mailing out. All the Xmas casuals have been paid off, so us regulars will have to deal with it.
Meanwhile Groupie’s been sent home from her work early and is treating herself to a nice relaxing bath.
Meanwhile Groupie’s been sent home from her work early and is treating herself to a nice relaxing bath.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A certain political party decided today was the perfect day to send a mass mailing out. All the Xmas casuals have been paid off, so us regulars will have to deal with it.
Meanwhile Groupie’s been sent home from her work early and is treating herself to a nice relaxing bath.
Meanwhile Groupie’s been sent home from her work early and is treating herself to a nice relaxing bath.
Passing a rainy journey to work with some sounds from Japan (the band, not the country).
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music.apple.com/gb/album/ass...
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music.apple.com/gb/album/ass...
Assemblage by Japan on Apple Music
Album · 1981 · 14 Songs
music.apple.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Passing a rainy journey to work with some sounds from Japan (the band, not the country).
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/ass...
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/ass...
Six shifts during the next three weeks. We’ll start the first of these with this classic 1981 album on the work commute. Some amazing bass and synth lines in here.
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music.apple.com/gb/album/dur...
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music.apple.com/gb/album/dur...
Duran Duran (Deluxe Edition) by Duran Duran on Apple Music
Album · 1981 · 27 Songs
music.apple.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Six shifts during the next three weeks. We’ll start the first of these with this classic 1981 album on the work commute. Some amazing bass and synth lines in here.
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/dur...
🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/dur...
Started to get YouTube adverts for Transport For Wales again. In Welsh.
As a viewer in north east Scotland…
As a viewer in north east Scotland…
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Started to get YouTube adverts for Transport For Wales again. In Welsh.
As a viewer in north east Scotland…
As a viewer in north east Scotland…
Further adventures in the (flawed) YouTube algorithm. This time a section called “1970s and more” featuring TV clips from 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994 and, most bizarrely, 2019.
🤦🏻♂️
🤦🏻♂️
Opened YouTube. Amongst the videos on offer is a section called “Anarchism and more”.
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Further adventures in the (flawed) YouTube algorithm. This time a section called “1970s and more” featuring TV clips from 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994 and, most bizarrely, 2019.
🤦🏻♂️
🤦🏻♂️
Reposted by Zaph Camden
🎄 Wee seasonal reshare on some of the history of Scotland’s complicated relationship with Christmas, from it being banned in the late 1500s to finally becoming an official Bank Holiday in the early 1970s:
theaddersden.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/s... 📰
#christmas #yule #christianity #presbyterian 🗃️
theaddersden.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/s... 📰
#christmas #yule #christianity #presbyterian 🗃️
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🎄 Wee seasonal reshare on some of the history of Scotland’s complicated relationship with Christmas, from it being banned in the late 1500s to finally becoming an official Bank Holiday in the early 1970s:
theaddersden.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/s... 📰
#christmas #yule #christianity #presbyterian 🗃️
theaddersden.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/s... 📰
#christmas #yule #christianity #presbyterian 🗃️
It’s the beginning of the first moon of 2026…it may seem a bit early but there’s thirteen moons this year so we get a bit longer. It’s also the solstice on Sunday and the peak period at work seems to be lessening off so there’s a real feeling of ending (and beginning) in the air.
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It’s the beginning of the first moon of 2026…it may seem a bit early but there’s thirteen moons this year so we get a bit longer. It’s also the solstice on Sunday and the peak period at work seems to be lessening off so there’s a real feeling of ending (and beginning) in the air.
Opened YouTube. Amongst the videos on offer is a section called “Anarchism and more”.
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Opened YouTube. Amongst the videos on offer is a section called “Anarchism and more”.
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
The videos here include one about Nordic habits than make life easier, a BBC report on “why did our friends stop posting on social media” and an episode of It’s A Knockout from 1981.
🤦🏻♂️
And so we come to the last day of the last moon of 2025.
A new moon at the weekend near enough coinciding with the solstice.
A new moon at the weekend near enough coinciding with the solstice.
a colorful circle with the words love divine eternity wisdom and faith on it
Alt: a colorful circle with the words love divine eternity wisdom and faith on it
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
And so we come to the last day of the last moon of 2025.
A new moon at the weekend near enough coinciding with the solstice.
A new moon at the weekend near enough coinciding with the solstice.
The secret pizza club is in session again at work.
Never mind, I’ve been busy making Xmas happen for some people while they all stuff their faces.
Such as Lindsay of Wales who’ll get her pretty Zara skirt after all despite her friend mailing it in an open plastic bag with the address written on it.
Never mind, I’ve been busy making Xmas happen for some people while they all stuff their faces.
Such as Lindsay of Wales who’ll get her pretty Zara skirt after all despite her friend mailing it in an open plastic bag with the address written on it.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The secret pizza club is in session again at work.
Never mind, I’ve been busy making Xmas happen for some people while they all stuff their faces.
Such as Lindsay of Wales who’ll get her pretty Zara skirt after all despite her friend mailing it in an open plastic bag with the address written on it.
Never mind, I’ve been busy making Xmas happen for some people while they all stuff their faces.
Such as Lindsay of Wales who’ll get her pretty Zara skirt after all despite her friend mailing it in an open plastic bag with the address written on it.
Moon date ♐️ 28.
This’ll do nicely!
youtu.be/jWgwx8ZFVCI?...
(contains flashing images, which you never got warned about on tv back in 1983)
This’ll do nicely!
youtu.be/jWgwx8ZFVCI?...
(contains flashing images, which you never got warned about on tv back in 1983)
BLUE ZOO - FORGIVE AND FORGET
YouTube video by aoitoritori
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Moon date ♐️ 28.
This’ll do nicely!
youtu.be/jWgwx8ZFVCI?...
(contains flashing images, which you never got warned about on tv back in 1983)
This’ll do nicely!
youtu.be/jWgwx8ZFVCI?...
(contains flashing images, which you never got warned about on tv back in 1983)
Nearly the end of the last moon of 2025, and I’m playing bass covers on YouTube (which should raise all kinds of red flags)
Just come up, in order, Advertising Space (Robbie Williams), One Of Us (ABBA) and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Hollies).
It’s OK, it’s just something in my eye…
Just come up, in order, Advertising Space (Robbie Williams), One Of Us (ABBA) and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Hollies).
It’s OK, it’s just something in my eye…
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nearly the end of the last moon of 2025, and I’m playing bass covers on YouTube (which should raise all kinds of red flags)
Just come up, in order, Advertising Space (Robbie Williams), One Of Us (ABBA) and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Hollies).
It’s OK, it’s just something in my eye…
Just come up, in order, Advertising Space (Robbie Williams), One Of Us (ABBA) and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Hollies).
It’s OK, it’s just something in my eye…
Sitting in a small corner of the rec room at work listening to Japan’s Assemblage album and wishing with all my heart I was not here at this time.
I can’t “people” any more. The battery’s empty.
I can’t “people” any more. The battery’s empty.
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sitting in a small corner of the rec room at work listening to Japan’s Assemblage album and wishing with all my heart I was not here at this time.
I can’t “people” any more. The battery’s empty.
I can’t “people” any more. The battery’s empty.
Have been given this package of lovely biscuits by the management in recognition of all my hard work during December so far. Yum.
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Have been given this package of lovely biscuits by the management in recognition of all my hard work during December so far. Yum.