Tobias Sturt
@redskelington.bsky.social
Editor of http://www.themetropolitan.uk, writer of http://addtwodigital.com/book, creator of http://christmasstories.co.uk.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.
There’s a business moose loose aboot this hoose
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
There’s a business moose loose aboot this hoose
These new LED babies are too bright
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These new LED babies are too bright
What better preparation for the horrors of the day than facing the grinning imp Trixie over the breakfast table?
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What better preparation for the horrors of the day than facing the grinning imp Trixie over the breakfast table?
Nice of my hotel to offer Gollum work experience writing the breakfast signage
October 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nice of my hotel to offer Gollum work experience writing the breakfast signage
And so we say farewell once more to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And so we say farewell once more to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
Recipes always feel like the perfect candidate for information design and this splendid app is a definite contender: it formats any recipe into a distinctive visual structure - here's a house favourite, for example, Felicity Cloake's Perfect Vegetarian Chilli:
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August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Recipes always feel like the perfect candidate for information design and this splendid app is a definite contender: it formats any recipe into a distinctive visual structure - here's a house favourite, for example, Felicity Cloake's Perfect Vegetarian Chilli:
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I wrote about 'Catcher in the Rye' for The Metropolitan this week, a book I adored as a teenager, and was delighted to discover it rewards reading as an adult too
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August 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I wrote about 'Catcher in the Rye' for The Metropolitan this week, a book I adored as a teenager, and was delighted to discover it rewards reading as an adult too
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I've written about the '80s TV show 'The Beiderbecke Affair' for The Metropolitan this week, and how it gave me a lifelong love of the music of Bix Beiderbecke.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've written about the '80s TV show 'The Beiderbecke Affair' for The Metropolitan this week, and how it gave me a lifelong love of the music of Bix Beiderbecke.
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Considering that *most* podcasts are by and about bald men with glasses, I feel that that's a pretty good ranking, frankly.
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Considering that *most* podcasts are by and about bald men with glasses, I feel that that's a pretty good ranking, frankly.
And so we say farewell to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And so we say farewell to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
I know a spot where the spaniel goes
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
June 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I know a spot where the spaniel goes
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
I wrote about The Goons for The Metropolitan this week, one of those childhood experiences that I suspect has had an indelible effect on the way I think and write.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I wrote about The Goons for The Metropolitan this week, one of those childhood experiences that I suspect has had an indelible effect on the way I think and write.
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As the weather warms up, what better time could there be to sit in the garden and start rehearsing the silly voices for this year's Christmas story? (includes a sneak peek, if you zoom in)
June 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As the weather warms up, what better time could there be to sit in the garden and start rehearsing the silly voices for this year's Christmas story? (includes a sneak peek, if you zoom in)
Mixtape week in The Metropolitan , which means its time for my playlist of my favourite tracks over the last month
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June 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Mixtape week in The Metropolitan , which means its time for my playlist of my favourite tracks over the last month
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This week's Metropolitan MIxtape includes my recommendations from May's Letterboxd diary, including, inevitably, 'Rogue One' and 'A New Hope', as I try and cope with 'Andor' ending.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This week's Metropolitan MIxtape includes my recommendations from May's Letterboxd diary, including, inevitably, 'Rogue One' and 'A New Hope', as I try and cope with 'Andor' ending.
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I wrote a little bit about personal aesthetic taste in The Metropolitan this week and in looking into it came across some research from the University of Copenhagen suggesting genetics plays a part and which, more importantly, enabled me to make some charts of their data.
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May 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I wrote a little bit about personal aesthetic taste in The Metropolitan this week and in looking into it came across some research from the University of Copenhagen suggesting genetics plays a part and which, more importantly, enabled me to make some charts of their data.
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I amd a fan of David Cronenberg's original, but I heartily agree with Rowan's piece on Rachel Weisz's sadly short lived reinvention of 'Dead Ringers'
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May 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I amd a fan of David Cronenberg's original, but I heartily agree with Rowan's piece on Rachel Weisz's sadly short lived reinvention of 'Dead Ringers'
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This point, from the always awesome Austion Kleon, really struck me, because its not true of Star Wars, its true of everything creative: you're always co-creating with your audience, which means knowing who they are and how to reach them first.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This point, from the always awesome Austion Kleon, really struck me, because its not true of Star Wars, its true of everything creative: you're always co-creating with your audience, which means knowing who they are and how to reach them first.
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With Andor reaching its conclusion, I am obliged to link to the piece I wrote about from The Metropolitan, which also somehow includes Captain America, Sam Peckinpah’s 'Cross of Iron' and a brief overview of the career of Joe Johnston
www.themetropolitan.uk/p/nazis-i-ha...
www.themetropolitan.uk/p/nazis-i-ha...
May 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
With Andor reaching its conclusion, I am obliged to link to the piece I wrote about from The Metropolitan, which also somehow includes Captain America, Sam Peckinpah’s 'Cross of Iron' and a brief overview of the career of Joe Johnston
www.themetropolitan.uk/p/nazis-i-ha...
www.themetropolitan.uk/p/nazis-i-ha...
Only a couple of days left to see the Unfolding Time exhibition of medieval calendars at Lambeth Palace Library, and I heartily recommend it, especially for information designers, as it's full of amazing visualisations of time and thinking about time.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Only a couple of days left to see the Unfolding Time exhibition of medieval calendars at Lambeth Palace Library, and I heartily recommend it, especially for information designers, as it's full of amazing visualisations of time and thinking about time.
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The love teeth is a little old shack
Where we can
Get our dentures
LOVE TEETH!
(Love teeth baby)
Where we can
Get our dentures
LOVE TEETH!
(Love teeth baby)
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The love teeth is a little old shack
Where we can
Get our dentures
LOVE TEETH!
(Love teeth baby)
Where we can
Get our dentures
LOVE TEETH!
(Love teeth baby)