Vapour Trails
@quincyd.bsky.social
I am Geoff Quincy. Vapour Trails is where I collect and write about things that make up the tapestry of the world I was born into, many threads of which are disappearing. An expert in nothing, just an enthusiastic amateur. https://vapourtrails.substack.com
Well this can just fuck right off
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well this can just fuck right off
@tftimemachine.bsky.social have you ever seen this clip? Its on Stuart Millard's brilliant YouTube channels latest video on Noel featuring him introducing a gurning feature. As if that's not enough the current champion of the time is Mr Ron Looney. Noel heaven.
May 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@tftimemachine.bsky.social have you ever seen this clip? Its on Stuart Millard's brilliant YouTube channels latest video on Noel featuring him introducing a gurning feature. As if that's not enough the current champion of the time is Mr Ron Looney. Noel heaven.
@profanityswan.bsky.social this is a bit Noel adjacent so naturally I thought of you and Sam when I saw it.
April 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@profanityswan.bsky.social this is a bit Noel adjacent so naturally I thought of you and Sam when I saw it.
@tftimemachine.bsky.social it's a shame Sam doesn't have the vita modular anymore but perhaps one for you Andy as a man (like me) who lives alone and can completely make his own home design choices!
February 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@tftimemachine.bsky.social it's a shame Sam doesn't have the vita modular anymore but perhaps one for you Andy as a man (like me) who lives alone and can completely make his own home design choices!
First broadcast in 1979 Minder ran for 11 seasons on ITV, ending in 1994
February 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
First broadcast in 1979 Minder ran for 11 seasons on ITV, ending in 1994
C is especially evocative for me. But I wrote a couple more here:
January 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
C is especially evocative for me. But I wrote a couple more here:
Erm! @rhodri.biz time for a reshuffle!
January 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Erm! @rhodri.biz time for a reshuffle!
@tftimemachine.bsky.social Hi Pals, was just eating some Edam (not my house cheese obviously) on the kitchen worktop. Saw a small stray piece as I was clearing up and ate it to find it was actually a very potent sliver of scented candle wax. Tasted ok but had to cleanse with a chocolate finger.
January 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@tftimemachine.bsky.social Hi Pals, was just eating some Edam (not my house cheese obviously) on the kitchen worktop. Saw a small stray piece as I was clearing up and ate it to find it was actually a very potent sliver of scented candle wax. Tasted ok but had to cleanse with a chocolate finger.
These are mine, Evelyn Waugh to the right and to the left: Alan Grants Doomlord which is very scarred for life adjacent if you're unaware of it.
December 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
These are mine, Evelyn Waugh to the right and to the left: Alan Grants Doomlord which is very scarred for life adjacent if you're unaware of it.
Despite Sarah Greens best attempts to tempt me away!
December 25, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Despite Sarah Greens best attempts to tempt me away!
Thanks John. I have been distracting myself by making love drawings of The Windsock today.
December 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Thanks John. I have been distracting myself by making love drawings of The Windsock today.
I've written a brief history of the boldest and most unusual definitely not flat roofed pub you've never heard of here
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
December 17, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I've written a brief history of the boldest and most unusual definitely not flat roofed pub you've never heard of here
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
Trying to persuade myself not to buy tickets to see Ride in Berlin for my son and I in May having tonight just paid out for the Forever Now festival in Milton Keynes and tomorrow going to book Father John Misty in Cambridge both within a few days of each other in June.
December 6, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Trying to persuade myself not to buy tickets to see Ride in Berlin for my son and I in May having tonight just paid out for the Forever Now festival in Milton Keynes and tomorrow going to book Father John Misty in Cambridge both within a few days of each other in June.
Just got my ticket for this so I'm a happy fellow this evening. Happy Christmas to me!
December 5, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Just got my ticket for this so I'm a happy fellow this evening. Happy Christmas to me!
Do the theme tunes to long forgotten TV shows cause a tight knot to appear in the pit of your stomach? You're not alone. Attached is a link to this weeks piece of writing on "Sunday Night Dread"
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December 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Do the theme tunes to long forgotten TV shows cause a tight knot to appear in the pit of your stomach? You're not alone. Attached is a link to this weeks piece of writing on "Sunday Night Dread"
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
open.substack.com/pub/vapourtr...
And a couple showing the interior of Bletchley Leisure Centre. I first went there in about 1982 and had never experienced a swimming pool like it. So forward thinking for the time it was built. Predictably it's gone now replaced with a dreary metal box building and normal pool pictured alongside.
November 27, 2024 at 9:22 PM
And a couple showing the interior of Bletchley Leisure Centre. I first went there in about 1982 and had never experienced a swimming pool like it. So forward thinking for the time it was built. Predictably it's gone now replaced with a dreary metal box building and normal pool pictured alongside.
Bletchley Leisure Centre under construction in 1973. The pyramid housed a magnificent swimming pool which for its day was extremely modern being designed for leisure with graduating depths you could just walk into like on a beach rather than an boring oblong with lane and a shallow and deep end.
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Bletchley Leisure Centre under construction in 1973. The pyramid housed a magnificent swimming pool which for its day was extremely modern being designed for leisure with graduating depths you could just walk into like on a beach rather than an boring oblong with lane and a shallow and deep end.
My first drawing in 23 years. I didn't mean to leave it so long but I got distracted by a few things. Dome is s bit dodgy but I'll do better next time.
November 26, 2024 at 8:18 PM
My first drawing in 23 years. I didn't mean to leave it so long but I got distracted by a few things. Dome is s bit dodgy but I'll do better next time.
Didn't realise this was available to buy. If you're unfamiliar with it I can best describe its as Threads but with Alsatians instead of nukes.
November 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Didn't realise this was available to buy. If you're unfamiliar with it I can best describe its as Threads but with Alsatians instead of nukes.
I always think you can spot the adulterers by the vehicles they arrive in. Eg man arrives in this, he's definitely having an affair with the woman!
November 24, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I always think you can spot the adulterers by the vehicles they arrive in. Eg man arrives in this, he's definitely having an affair with the woman!
Just going down memory lane with some of Hulls finest forgotten indie sons
November 23, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Just going down memory lane with some of Hulls finest forgotten indie sons
I came across this in a service station toilet the other day and really don't want to know about the events that led to this decision.
November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I came across this in a service station toilet the other day and really don't want to know about the events that led to this decision.
The wit and wisdom of me. I should become one of them life coaches
November 17, 2024 at 8:47 PM
The wit and wisdom of me. I should become one of them life coaches
Sunday night dread anyone? It's ok Geoffrey I tell myself: You don't have to go to Queensbury School in the morning, you don't have basketball first thing, Mr Birch can't make your team be skins and anyway you don't have moobs anymore... it's all fine now.
November 17, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Sunday night dread anyone? It's ok Geoffrey I tell myself: You don't have to go to Queensbury School in the morning, you don't have basketball first thing, Mr Birch can't make your team be skins and anyway you don't have moobs anymore... it's all fine now.