Norbert Rantyman
Norbert Rantyman
@rantyman.bsky.social
Ageing Juvenile
According to the internet there are no parades in Seville today…
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Toddy Talk (couldn’t spell earlier)
#makeasongautumnal
October 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Harvest is Yet to Come
#makeasongautumnal
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hallows Hooray
#makeasongautumnal
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Torture on this South West train. Just pulled the tray table dawn and found these. Probably from a non ticket holding passenger who couldn’t afford the fine
October 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Pt. 2 (Here’s the shocker…)
But nowhere, in my judgement, is the prospect so dark as it is in the United States.'
Trent's Last Case - E. C. Bentley Published 1912
September 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Something from the novel I've just read
Pt. 1
"This is a terrible time in which we live, my dear boy. There is none recorded in history, I think, in which the disproportion between the material and the moral constituents of society has been so great or so menacing to the permanence of the fabric.
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I watched this last night and really wanted to like it, but it is truly terrible… Scriptwriters including Graham Chapman and Peter Cook, but just a mess..
September 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It seems that Starmer is doing such an incredibly bad job of managing Labour policy that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone called him out as a Russian Asset soon
#starmer
#russianasset
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This is just next level insanity.

In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate.

There was just one rather significant problem.

She had sadly died in July 2024.

insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
insidecroydon.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Moonrise in a field in Kent. About to go dancing…
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#totp
I think David Sylvian’s hair was the main reason for the dip in the ozone layer in the 80s
July 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#totp
I have no memory of this McCartney song… Hopefully I will be able to forget it again..
July 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
#totp
I though The Cult might be a bit of relief, but I had somehow forgotten this abomination
July 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#totp
Chaka Khan - Pointless remix No. 97. A great record, made worse
July 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#totp
Dest God - Trump in the Bobby Brown video
July 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
#totp
I remember that I once briefly went out with a woman who had been a Blow Monkeys groupie…
July 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#totp
Jive Bunny - the record that made you want to stab yourself in the ears…
July 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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July 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The first book (not the last) I ever gave up on. Never finished it
July 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#iamwatching
Completely bonkers film. James Coburn is brilliant in this. Also, great Lalo Schifrin soundtrack, virtually impossible to find…
#laloschifrin
July 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Picked this up today at @popclassics.bsky.social following a post by @andrewmale.bsky.social and a tip-off from @hooholton.bsky.social
A 56 year old album that is still sealed! It actually seems a shame to open it, but that's what records are for.
June 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Looks like the Dream is over in Luton …
June 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Some brief precipitation in West Norwood a minute ago. I don’t believe it was rain, but water squeezed out of the over humid air…
June 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#nowplaying
Growing by Jonesy
In a shop full of records I decided to bring in some of my own…
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM