Keith Sands
@keithsands.bsky.social
Cambridge-based, work in ELT publishing / ed tech for a university press. Semi-competent rock climber. Half Man Half Biscuit & Cardiacs enjoyer. Occasional writing and translation.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Casa del Frutetto (House of the Orchard), Pompeii
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Casa del Frutetto (House of the Orchard), Pompeii
Cafe Nero, Stansted Airport, where celebrity autobiographies go to shed their dust jackets and die
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Cafe Nero, Stansted Airport, where celebrity autobiographies go to shed their dust jackets and die
Proustian rush as the Ronseal Tile Red Garage Floor paint I am using on a workshop floor recalls the Oxblood Doc Martens I coveted in the summer of 1989
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Proustian rush as the Ronseal Tile Red Garage Floor paint I am using on a workshop floor recalls the Oxblood Doc Martens I coveted in the summer of 1989
"And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you've put in them, and these chickens are scared! They don't know why they're so big"
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you've put in them, and these chickens are scared! They don't know why they're so big"
I came to Cardiacs too late, alas, but listening to the 'posthumous' album, out today and it's a marvel. (It's not quite 'Sing to God', because that's probably the best album ever made).
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I came to Cardiacs too late, alas, but listening to the 'posthumous' album, out today and it's a marvel. (It's not quite 'Sing to God', because that's probably the best album ever made).
It's this in reverse.
September 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's this in reverse.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
Time seems to be passing for them, in one direction or another -
September 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Time seems to be passing for them, in one direction or another -
Top work here from the trillion dollar brain.
September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Top work here from the trillion dollar brain.
Authors of this 1974 pamphlet have no time whatsoever for any of your unempirical, new age, hippy bullshit
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Authors of this 1974 pamphlet have no time whatsoever for any of your unempirical, new age, hippy bullshit
The 'Nine Maidens' standing stones, of which eleven are still present.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The 'Nine Maidens' standing stones, of which eleven are still present.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Mounts View Cottages, Madron.
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mounts View Cottages, Madron.
Black Slab, Bosigran, Cornwall. A Colin Kirkus route. Easy but spectacular.
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Black Slab, Bosigran, Cornwall. A Colin Kirkus route. Easy but spectacular.
Kayaking trip. Crow in Exmouth Harbour
July 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Kayaking trip. Crow in Exmouth Harbour
Moderate Breakfast Traffic sounds like what you'd get in the Neutral Milk Hotel
July 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Moderate Breakfast Traffic sounds like what you'd get in the Neutral Milk Hotel
Osip Mandelstam (my translation, in 'Unknown Soldier' Equipage 2019). #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Osip Mandelstam (my translation, in 'Unknown Soldier' Equipage 2019). #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
1) asks AI to set oven hot enough to melt a turkey
2) sets fire to house
2) sets fire to house
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
1) asks AI to set oven hot enough to melt a turkey
2) sets fire to house
2) sets fire to house
Allotments. Matalan. Lonely ventriloquists. Medieval war-horses. Legoland on acid. Rawlplugs. Mortality. Telepathic crime-fighting hens. All life is here. #hmhb
June 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Allotments. Matalan. Lonely ventriloquists. Medieval war-horses. Legoland on acid. Rawlplugs. Mortality. Telepathic crime-fighting hens. All life is here. #hmhb
