Christopher Todd
@cjtoddy.bsky.social
I’m in Norwich and I draw little people and they’re usually morris dancers. Someone said I was affable.
It’s almost ten years since the “looks like a renaissance painting” photo from New Year’s Eve 2015 in Manchester. www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-t...
Any image search for “accidental renaissance” is a feast.
Any image search for “accidental renaissance” is a feast.
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It’s almost ten years since the “looks like a renaissance painting” photo from New Year’s Eve 2015 in Manchester. www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-t...
Any image search for “accidental renaissance” is a feast.
Any image search for “accidental renaissance” is a feast.
When the whiteboard in the community hall has the previous group’s instructions (in this case fencing; in another case Portuguese conversation) but it still works for
morris dancing.
morris dancing.
October 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When the whiteboard in the community hall has the previous group’s instructions (in this case fencing; in another case Portuguese conversation) but it still works for
morris dancing.
morris dancing.
Stuck for a Halloween costume? I recommend the eye from this 1.7-second shot in Gone To Earth (1950).
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Stuck for a Halloween costume? I recommend the eye from this 1.7-second shot in Gone To Earth (1950).
A smoke on a ha-ha, in Mrs Dalloway (1997). Underrated location.
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A smoke on a ha-ha, in Mrs Dalloway (1997). Underrated location.
This Ben Webster album was released in 1966 in Germany as “Blue Light”, in France as “Autumn Leaves” and in the UK as “Days Of Wine And Roses” - all titles from the track list.
The Dutch, in 1971, went for “Atmosphere For Lovers And Thieves”.
The Dutch, in 1971, went for “Atmosphere For Lovers And Thieves”.
October 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This Ben Webster album was released in 1966 in Germany as “Blue Light”, in France as “Autumn Leaves” and in the UK as “Days Of Wine And Roses” - all titles from the track list.
The Dutch, in 1971, went for “Atmosphere For Lovers And Thieves”.
The Dutch, in 1971, went for “Atmosphere For Lovers And Thieves”.
One of my grandfather’s mixtapes from the 70s or 80s of older records and radio programmes - mostly light music. Is there anything more exciting than “Ending with Ski Sunday signature tune”?
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One of my grandfather’s mixtapes from the 70s or 80s of older records and radio programmes - mostly light music. Is there anything more exciting than “Ending with Ski Sunday signature tune”?
Dancing at the world conker championships, today in Northamptonshire. Misty morris action.
October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Dancing at the world conker championships, today in Northamptonshire. Misty morris action.
Have I just found a piece of shot in… an onion?
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Have I just found a piece of shot in… an onion?
Two albums ago, late 2022.
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Two albums ago, late 2022.
I found my collection of pipe stem pieces from various gardens and allotments. No doubt there are people on the internet doing wildly creative things with clay pipes and finding much better ones but I’ll be happier if I don’t see. These are mine.
September 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I found my collection of pipe stem pieces from various gardens and allotments. No doubt there are people on the internet doing wildly creative things with clay pipes and finding much better ones but I’ll be happier if I don’t see. These are mine.
A walk round the Roman walls at Caistor St Edmund and down to the Tas.
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A walk round the Roman walls at Caistor St Edmund and down to the Tas.
I’m really Norfolk now. I just found this about my person. I’m in London.
September 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’m really Norfolk now. I just found this about my person. I’m in London.
Graphic for a town crier competition, in The Folk Almanack for 1967.
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Graphic for a town crier competition, in The Folk Almanack for 1967.
One of Cecil Sharp’s own bookplates, in his 1914 book of English Folk-Chanteys.
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One of Cecil Sharp’s own bookplates, in his 1914 book of English Folk-Chanteys.
Comfort me in my sickness, Mubi intro.
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Comfort me in my sickness, Mubi intro.
I might get into patterned glass. These names are the four zones of the crystal maze that is my mind.
September 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I might get into patterned glass. These names are the four zones of the crystal maze that is my mind.
The toad in the hole (and the hole in the bog…)
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The toad in the hole (and the hole in the bog…)
What I bought on 5th September 2000. The Underworld live album was fresh out the day before. Badly Drawn Boy’s debut was demoted to the mild shame pile before long but might deserve better.
September 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What I bought on 5th September 2000. The Underworld live album was fresh out the day before. Badly Drawn Boy’s debut was demoted to the mild shame pile before long but might deserve better.
This reminds me of when Trikont Records released four albums of versions of La Paloma.
September 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This reminds me of when Trikont Records released four albums of versions of La Paloma.
Yet another fresh and fiddly innovation in CD card sleeve formats - the Metal Fingers / MF Doom Special Herbs reissues that I happened to find released today.
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yet another fresh and fiddly innovation in CD card sleeve formats - the Metal Fingers / MF Doom Special Herbs reissues that I happened to find released today.
Greetings from Koblenz, where the party is having fifteen German beers and one Campari spritz.
August 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Greetings from Koblenz, where the party is having fifteen German beers and one Campari spritz.
We were talking about how challenging a morris edition of Guess Who would be.
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We were talking about how challenging a morris edition of Guess Who would be.
Patrick Wolf recreating this old photo of a hooden horse on the Kent coast for his new EP.
August 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Patrick Wolf recreating this old photo of a hooden horse on the Kent coast for his new EP.
Wendens Ambo, Essex, Friday night. The other people on the pub patio found out that we were morris dancers and requested a demonstration. Swaggering Boney for four.
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Wendens Ambo, Essex, Friday night. The other people on the pub patio found out that we were morris dancers and requested a demonstration. Swaggering Boney for four.
I’m glad that I didn’t finish this book before I came camping in the very area of east Suffolk that it covers.
It’s Robert Ashton’s “What Happened To The Fellows Who Cut The Hay”, updating the work of George Ewart Evans.
It’s Robert Ashton’s “What Happened To The Fellows Who Cut The Hay”, updating the work of George Ewart Evans.
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m glad that I didn’t finish this book before I came camping in the very area of east Suffolk that it covers.
It’s Robert Ashton’s “What Happened To The Fellows Who Cut The Hay”, updating the work of George Ewart Evans.
It’s Robert Ashton’s “What Happened To The Fellows Who Cut The Hay”, updating the work of George Ewart Evans.