Today’s post out from www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch inc. Bowie, The Beatles, Altered Images, Adam Ant, Bay City Rollers, Are You Being Served? and League of Gentlemen. There’ll be a HUGE restock next week with lots of card designs old and new.

I was given a voucher so I treated myself to this book. It’s absolutely luscious.

"Did you enjoy being pregnant?'"- Bananarama revisit old Smash Hits questions in the BBC archive

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Their cards are wonderful. Cannot recommend highly enough. Got a couple of the East 17 ones saved up for my BFFs this year.

Today’s post out from www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch inc. Bowie, The Beatles, Altered Images, Adam Ant, Bay City Rollers, Are You Being Served? and League of Gentlemen. There’ll be a HUGE restock next week with lots of card designs old and new.

The greatest review you've never read about the greatest band you've never heard 🙏 louderthanwar.com/review-memor...

'Revisiting Horses, we find not just rebellion, but wild, unbridled desire – urgent, corporeal, and impossible to contain.' Many Happy Returns to #PattiSmith’s Horses, which turns 50 today! buff.ly/TuW8vNm

In case you don’t know, this is a Fanny Cradock Christmas card. Watch in horror… m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Dg...

I forgot about this one…

Xmas cards will be on sale in a week- something old, something new, something weird and something blue.

"Where's your fucking poppy?"

My Christmas cards and wrap are featured on @retrotogo.bsky.social The wonderful @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social gets a mention too. www.retrotogo.com/2025/11/retr...

Xmas cards will be on sale in a week- something old, something new, something weird and something blue.

"Where's your fucking poppy?'

No, Dyson is the name of the creator not the monster.

'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.

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Spoke to someone tonight who was at his 200th Half Man Half Biscuit gig. I suggested it must be something of a record, at which he nodded to the guy next to him, who coughed “221…” Respect! #HMHB

NEW! Columbo Decorations! Celebrating perhaps the greatest tv detective. They can be sent as cards and hung as decorations, the versatility is astounding! Just one more thing...head on over to heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com for these and LOADS of other quality merchandise.

Do pubs still have vaults? Just thinking about my nanna. She was a barmaid, & I spent a lot of time in the pub when I was little, sitting behind the door with a bottle of coke. I once wondered into the Vault & I have this haunting image of a load of old men supping in silence, & being wrenched out.

Woman on tram wearing a hoodie with diamanté nudie ladies on.

🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/... Fed up with this annual shithousery? I am.

Looks like the price of legumes is about to mysteriously go up. Anyone got a cow?

Here's your reminder to look out for hedgehogs this Bonfire Night. Stacks of logs and leaves look real inviting to hedgehogs searching for places to hibernate. Remember to check your bonfires before lighting them!

A 1963 interview with the woman dubbed the most famous witch in England: Sybil Leek, the Witch of Burley in the New Forest, “a forest that is absolutely steeped in witchcraft”. youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M

This coin operated 'Opium Den' automata is one of the least morbid creations of Leed's based John Dennison, the first person in the world able to make a living out of arcade slot machines which proliferated in Blackpool in the late 1800's. Other subjects included executions & drunk in a graveyard.

Right, back to Fall eras.

Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions.

My lovely friends have taken over Limestone Books in Settle. I went up & spent up on Sunday. They’ve done a complete restock & it’s got everything from small publishers to the big hitters. It’s very well curated & full of surprises. Please pop in if you’re passing (it’s opposite Ye Olde Naked Man).

Heard a podcast when Stewart Lee described looking for his lost cat in the early hours, & encountered a secret world when cats & foxes hung out together on estates (very poetic image). Reminded me of when I was little & my cat hated all except the neighbour’s dog & they’d walk the streets together.

One whole year since one of the most unlikely heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com successes - George Smiley decorations!

I have coveted these mugs since seeing one in the Pee Wee Herman doc. Finally tracked them down. They’re called Calamityware. My friend’s just brought me some from the US (they don’t ship to the UK). After a tough week I’m made up. (Music was incidental but fitting).

Costume of the year:

Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #womensart #caturday

Of course, the scariest thing here is the banking sign has a spelling mistake. But it’s a great chippy, so I’ll not hold it against them.

Friday night scares at the chippy.

Happy Halloween! m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZk...

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats #Halloween Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

Is The Unutterable the best Fall album of the 21st century? Is it the best Fall LP full stop? Is it simply one of the best damn albums ever recorded? It's reissued today and Fergal Kinney looks beyond Pete Tong, ketamine and pumpkin soup to reveal its brilliance. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Went to see To The Devil A Daughter last night. Just been asked what it was like and the first thing that came out of my mouth was, ‘you got to see Christopher Lee’s arse’. I think Kermode is safe.

When do I get to sing 'My Way', when do I get to feel like Sinatra felt

”Danny’s sweater in ‘The Shining’ was a real thing... Kubrick's sly nod to the ridiculous conspiracy theory... that he assisted with (or even ‘directed’) pre-recorded moon-landing footage shot in a movie studio.” (by @papergreat.bsky.social) www.papergreat.com/2025/10/dann...

In the hairdressers. Everyone’s discussing Strictly and the Pride of Britain awards.

Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees). I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide! www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...

I want to be Basil Brush’s friend more than anyone else in the entire world.

Your Daily Dracula – Christopher Pizzey, ‘Taste the Blood of Brushcula’, The Basil Brush Show (2003) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE8p...

. @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social will sometimes do a cross stitch where every cross is actually a little kiss. The recipient can always tell when they've done it.