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Spinky’s Mama
@spinkysmama.bsky.social
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Lawyer, civil servant, Londoner, Doctor Who fan, maritorious, mother of a spinky, God-botherer. Mostly doomscrolling, telly chat and terrible jokes. All views my own. She/Her.
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My brother’s 1984 letter to Father Christmas, another bittersweet highlight of clearing house.

I can confirm that he is still big hearted* and obsessed with dinosaurs 🦖

(* although I didn’t get the 10 foot teddy)
A handwritten Christmas list from 1984: Please santa these presents to the famity Could you give AMMI & THATHI Wine cooler Wireless telephone cycad + top hat Annette Catherine Battery powered sewing machine A Book George Michael Swyrie 10 foot teddy Saliya Dinosaurs by LB HALSTEAD. (Blandford Series) Dinosaus + more dinosaurs MJ Craig (Scholastic , 10 books) Life before Man (not the one by ZW Spinar, the other one with a picture of a carnosaur on the front)
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A late entry
A mock up of the Penguin edition of Crash by JG Ballard. The image shows the cast of the Abominable Snowmen, the 1967 Doctor Who story, Frazer Hines Patrick Troughton Deborah Watling, on a bus to the Wales locations.
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“I know Tracer Bullet. And Madam, you are no Tracer Bullet.”
Calvin as Tracer Bullet, with a caption above: Yeah, that's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are Bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye.
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Gonna troll @cooraysmith.bsky.social by claiming they’re doing colourised BBC4 reedit of Whistle and I’ll Come to You and showing him this.
Sir Michael Hordern as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1977 BBC A Christmas Carol, hugging his curtains.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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For when you’re looking to be demure and mindful but have to out that damned spot.
A white kaftan with stylised red hibiscus sleeves, the overall effect looking like Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Brett Anderson on what he was doing in 1976 instead of seeing The Sex Pistols(from thequietus.com/interviews/b...)
I was only nine years old in 1976 so I wasn't down the front at the 100 Club, I was still watching Doctor Who. Like everything in those days it probably filtered through slowly to Haywards Heath Market. It was the first record I bought. It was shockingly brilliant, and is one of those records that if you played it in 200 years time it would still sound like that. I think that they perfectly defined their own genre. They were the ultimate punk band. The other so-called punk bands to me sound like a parody of the Sex Pistols.
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:
A sign on a gate says ‘Attention Chien Bizarre’. Behind the gate is a normal looking retriever dog, with a mournful expression.
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s only topped by Troughton’s original costume idea, which would have relegated us to the Black and White Minstrel Show😬.
Extract from Patrick Troughton’s 1973 Pebble Mill interview. Q: In fact you made it a jokey part, didn't you, because Dr. Who mark 1 was a little bit more serious, he was older and cantankerous whereas you introduced an element of comedy into it. A: Well, I thought we had to do something a bit different. My original idea was to black up and wear a big turban and brass earrings and a big grey beard and do it like the Arabian Knights. I thought that would be a wonderful idea, but when I'd finished, I could shave off, take the black off, take the turban off and nobody would know who I was and I wouldn't be typecast. But they didn't think that was a very good idea.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I like to think this is exactly how Morbius’s trial went down.
Tweet from dril, 2011 "im not owned! im not owned!!" , i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Terrible thing, vegetable envy 🍆
Screenshot from part 3 of the 1975 Doctor Who story The Brain of Morbius. Morbius, a renegade Time Lord reduced to the titular brain in a jar, is ranting about his condition to his devoted disciple Mehendri Solon, a neurosurgeon. Morbius “now reduced to this, to a condition where I envy a vegetable.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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8 yo has made this drawing at school for the past week . He says it is “a nice sunny day” but we suspect he is designing and refining the flag of the republic over which he will be dictator.
Seven drawings of the same subject- a blue horizontal band of sky, a yellow sun and a green horizontal band of grass.
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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This is in response to the Christmas mural by a shopping centre in Kingston-upon-Thames. The owners have this comment. I urge you to through and judge for yourself.
The local council denied any involvement in its creation and directed our questions to the shopping centre's owners, who have said it was "inspired by the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder"
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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This vox pop is brilliant.
Extract from Londoncentric post 18 November 2025: Another passerby, when asked for their opinion, took one look and responded "fuck sake".
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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We celebrated my mum’s memory with her favourite things.
A slice of carrot cake on a plate. The inscription on the Ever After Garden rose in memory of my mother. Two candles in a Catholic church. The Ever After Garden in Duke of York Square, in support of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I would also add her delight in her expanding family and her profound love.

Love you Ammi.
My mother, Dr Sherva Cooray, a South Asian woman in her 70s holding her first grandchild. She is beaming, looking utterly delighted.
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Please please please keep Green Gilbert.
Scene from episode 4 of the 1972 Doctor Who story The Sea Devils: Submarine] (The submarine is once again underway. Ridgeway, the submarine commander is plotting a course on one map with Mitchell, a crew member, then walks over to the chart table.) (The Sea Devil takes Ridgeway's hand and points it to the Sea Fort on another chart.) MITCHELL: Why there? RIDGEWAY: Ask Green Gilbert.
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
Screenshot from ‘Nasty’, an episode of the BBC sitcom The Young Ones. The characters Mike, Neil and Rik are looking into camera, with serious expressions.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
Bobo, Klara and Hedvig from We Are The Best!
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I’m at the BFI tomorrow. Come and say hello if you’re coming too- I have snacks from Planet Lindor.
A bag of Lindor chocolate.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Rhys Thomas.

(He had the costume specially made for his wedding day and wore it for his appearance on Would I Lie to You).
The comedian Rhys Thomas in series 2 episode 7 of Would I Lie to You. He is wearing a facsimile of the Fifth Doctor’s costume, a cream blazer with red collar piping, a cricket jumper with red collar and a white open necked shirt.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Explain a film plot badly:

Two women fighting over a pair of shoes.
The ruby slippers are a pair of magical shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Wizard of Oz.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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So much joy.
Pauline Collins goes skateboarding, 4th June 1965. (Photo by Ron Burton/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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8 yo has discovered that Lego mini figures are swappable and is providing a delighted running commentary.

“Does Princess Leia like having a scarf? Does she like having a nice cup of tea on a skateboard?”
A Lego mini figure of Princess Leia, with a torso with a blue jumper and scarf holding a pink mug, white trousers, and placed on a skateboard.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Almost tempted by the NYT subscription offer to create ‘Who-dle’ puzzles, but aside from everything else there would be *ructions* at home (“that’s not the plural of VOORD!”).
Screenshot of New York Times Games section Wordle Create Your Wordle Puzzle Challenge friends with a word you choose. Plot twist: Your word can be long or short. Subscribe
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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“Mr Stewart, you’re going to have to leave.”
“I’m staying. Not Upper East Side, not Upper West Side but…
The actor Jeff Stewart, Reg Hollis in The Bill, in an earlier role as the malevolent manifestation of the Mara in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda, saying “this side of madness or the other.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM