# ![@govauctionnews Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2902266461.png) @govauctionnews Inspector Whatman: Sleeper Squad

Inspector Whatman: Sleeper Squad posts on X about varley, murder, ebay, sleeper the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  7% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  6% [finance](/list/finance)  4% [countries](/list/countries)  3% [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  2% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  1% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1% [premier league](/list/premier-league)  1% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[varley](/topic/varley) 5%, [murder](/topic/murder) 5%, [ebay](/topic/ebay) 4%, [sleeper](/topic/sleeper) #15, [london](/topic/london) 3%, [to the](/topic/to-the) 2%, [flits](/topic/flits) #1, [money](/topic/money) 2%, [istanbul](/topic/istanbul) 2%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@rogerthedoctor](/creator/undefined) [@perrylskt](/creator/undefined) [@winklepin](/creator/undefined) [@sinderinister](/creator/undefined) [@noellenole1](/creator/undefined) [@cwichbold](/creator/undefined) [@procrastixote](/creator/undefined) [@gilliganista](/creator/undefined) [@talkingpicstv](/creator/undefined) [@paulsuttonking](/creator/undefined) [@poochmanor](/creator/undefined) [@bromleycrossboy](/creator/undefined) [@markwil67206795](/creator/undefined) [@allanholloway](/creator/undefined) [@lejflejf](/creator/undefined) [@brownbowlerhat](/creator/undefined) [@arundelxvi](/creator/undefined) [@nostalgicshaz](/creator/undefined) [@uodarchivesrm](/creator/undefined) [@pewterlotus](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. (REYN)](/topic/$reyn) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

""To avoid climbing the banks and walking on the river bed we'll build a bridge by climbing the banks and wa.no.wait." What an amazing idea for making instantly wooden walking bridge https://t.co/Jvb9GX2cYr What an amazing idea for making instantly wooden walking bridge https://t.co/Jvb9GX2cYr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2019836482794721647)  2026-02-06T18:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I was thinking of buying a new cat flap but having seen this remarkable eBay ad I'm not sure it's such a good idea 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2021222666091315467)  2026-02-10T14:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@noelle_nole1 I've always loved that sequence: "From the children of the Hydra's teeth there is no escape""  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022010895858381032)  2026-02-12T18:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@rogerthedoctor When she took the gig she thought she'd be posing on the bonnet of a Lamborghini"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022383849020547247)  2026-02-13T18:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Lejf_Lejf With a dealer in the Snape Maltings Antiques Centre near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. I've found many sleepers there over the years and it was a sad day for me when he gave it up real-world selling and put it all on eBay at vastly inflated prices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022771582997770405)  2026-02-14T20:35Z [----] followers, 14.7K engagements


"I've been buying John Varley (1778-1842) watercolours since.well never mind that now. but I've rarely found a better example than this one. A wonderfully romantic image on the cusp of the sublime with genuine museum quality. Likely a view of Llyn Padarn & Dolbadarn Castle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2019489645738840553)  2026-02-05T19:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


".revealed they'd been laid to support sheets with printed text to the reverse - mostly unreadable. Still I could make out the name 'Silas.' A glance at Ardizzone's bibliography showed that in [----] he'd illustrated H E Bates's 'My Uncle Silas' stories. And when the book came"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022646678868599216)  2026-02-14T12:18Z [----] followers, 60.5K engagements


"@CWichbold Coo.isn't that fab I love it. The Minster House Antiques Centre in Leominster has long been a favourite of mine especially for those unframed prints and drawings pinned to the wall with bulldog clips"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022012027250843651)  2026-02-12T18:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@winklepin And incredibly expressive eyes. I find the sequence in The Three Musketeers (or possibly the follow-up) when he's recounting to D'Artagnan his past sad history with Milady to be very affecting thanks to his lovely voice and limpid gaze"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022349421976187224)  2026-02-13T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@brownbowlerhat Salad on the same plate as baked beans is a bold culinary choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022674482419167248)  2026-02-14T14:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Lovely stuff. I re-read the Mr Mulliner stories (as well as 'Uncle Fred Flits By' - his masterpiece imao) every 18-months or so. Remembering the funniest writer of the last century P G Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville) who died on this day in [----]. He was [--]. #PGWodehouse #Jeeves #BertieWooster #Psmith #LordEmsworth #MyManJeeves #CarryOnJeeves #TheCodeOfTheWoosters #SomethingFishy #GalahadAtBlandings https://t.co/tvkgnC8dAD Remembering the funniest writer of the last century P G Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville) who died on this day in [----]. He was [--]. #PGWodehouse #Jeeves #BertieWooster #Psmith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022773637506293906)  2026-02-14T20:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rogerthedoctor Wise words indeed. Have you read Uncle Fred Flits By btw Not a word wasted and each designed to make you laugh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2022785017525448968)  2026-02-14T21:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I bought an oil showing a bloke with a pair of horses attributed to Edward Robert Smythe 1810-1899. It's unsigned but I think there's a clue in the curl of white paint. A similar plume appears in his signed snow scene but there's no obvious reason for it in a green landscape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1950904828101575131)  2025-07-31T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ArundelXVI It's the world of c [--] years before. In Britain the biggest driver for TVs was the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in [----]. People bought or rented sets & those who couldn't afford one watched it at a neighbours. Only one BBC channel until [----] when commercial TV brought a second"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1951574481710768226)  2025-08-02T09:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Surely from an early 60s comedy by the Boulting Brothers or Mario Zampi. Peter Sellers centre flanked by Bill Fraser and Wally Patch. They're probably working a bank caper of some kind. Piccadilly Gardens Manchester [----] photo by Shirley Baker. https://t.co/CihUz6ajYz Piccadilly Gardens Manchester [----] photo by Shirley Baker. https://t.co/CihUz6ajYz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1951639598922432696)  2025-08-02T13:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Nostalgicshaz Oddly enough covered to great effect by The Funboy Three"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1951662565504803205)  2025-08-02T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sinderinister @UoD_Archives_RM Never heard of it before - fabulous. Just discovered they demolished it in [----]. What a huge shame. Euston Arch suffered much the same fate at much the same time. 😑"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1953054029497487407)  2025-08-06T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@procrastixote Your harmony theory sounds very plausible. I find one of the great / small pleasures of life is sharing a passing observation or a simply a smile with strangers one doesn't know & will never meet again - probably because it fosters a (prehaps fleeting) feeling of community"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1953605224347971998)  2025-08-07T23:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Cats: ignoring Health & Safety since [----] BCE #Caturday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1954109523486007492)  2025-08-09T09:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@pewter_lotus Yep. Nobody ever had a nice relaxing soak in the shower with a book and a glass of wine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1954863695051251905)  2025-08-11T11:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DHucks6 You'll be fighting lions in The Colosseum next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1956330332174582235)  2025-08-15T12:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@noelle_nole1 Loved that book when I was in my late teens & read it several times since tho not for many years. Still there are some bits I know almost by heart: 'How to give up smoking - stop buying cigarettes putting them in your mouth & lighting them'; 'What to do with a sudden chicken.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1957812914196185584)  2025-08-19T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"An impressive collection of old stamps on today's parcel together with a modern green Large Letter stamp. although I'm not entirely sure why since without a bar-code I didn't think they could still be used. But perhaps they're just for decoration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1958105624778059977)  2025-08-20T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sometimes when you put your contact lenses in after not wearing them for a while it's exactly like applying potato crisps to your eyeballs. Sweet Moses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1959228657345429569)  2025-08-23T12:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SarahLouisaColl It's a lovely film and the courtroom scene is marvellous: ".But not a snitch""  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1959940086516138310)  2025-08-25T11:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@procrastixote Me too. Rather more people about the last time I was there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1960932475376435356)  2025-08-28T05:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@japecake Yes I remember. Great gag. I think his early episodic films like this and Take the Money and Run have been rather forgotten. My favourite (out of many contenders) is probably Radio Days and again that's more or less a series of sketches with a loose linking family narrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1961939077193756786)  2025-08-30T23:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Just fulfilled a modest but long-cherished ambition & visited Smailholm Tower near Kelso one of Scotland's must-see historic attractions. My wife having turned her ankle I stormed the citadel alone & had the place entirely to myself. For one hour only I was king of the castle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1965118368190746680)  2025-09-08T18:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheBookshopMan Check out the giant letters behind the Blue Mosque that spell out 'Istanbul.' [---] km tall and [---] km wide they are sixty times bigger than the more famous 'Hollywood' sign and can be seen from forty miles away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1966413703827317007)  2025-09-12T08:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"These are the ruins of Tizel castle perched high above the river Till. Though built on the foundations of an earlier fortress (destroyed by the Scottish army under James IV in 1496) it's mostly an 18th C folly. It's a new castle for me and worth the short climb #Northumberland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1966596139043389789)  2025-09-12T20:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""How are you this bright and beautiful Sunday morning May we talk with you for a moment about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" Party clothes (The Party 1960) Artist: Harry Wingfield https://t.co/19dLXR4mG0 Party clothes (The Party 1960) Artist: Harry Wingfield https://t.co/19dLXR4mG0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1966597667212976324)  2025-09-12T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I've always been fascinated by the two lives of George Romney (1734-1802) - first with brush as the most fashionable portraitist of the age and second with pen and pencil as an inveterate sketcher of figure studies seemingly for his own pleasure. I love drawings like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1970091215141118141)  2025-09-22T11:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PerryLSKT And did you see that Evri customer services want you to get in touch re. the broken china. 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1971551375168532694)  2025-09-26T12:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PerryLSKT Thank gawd for Royal Mail 48"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1971556323134492891)  2025-09-26T12:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PerryLSKT Do you want me to suggest some accounts on here that I think you might enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1971585516098449611)  2025-09-26T14:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Recycling is generally a good idea but if I were shipping an eBay lot to someone I think I might have chosen a different box"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1972666480077537623)  2025-09-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Latest acquisition: a pen & ink illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) for a book of folktales. Sincere thanks to @PhilipSerrell & his team for sending it to me (with a couple of other drawings) via Special Delivery for just [--]. A great service at a sensible price"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1973441956660519130)  2025-10-01T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Gilliganista He has to defend a pig that's been accused of murder and then find the real killer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1976700295909720180)  2025-10-10T17:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@martgathercole Also known as a drop gate. This one was painted by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) in Duncomb Park in Yorkshire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1978503591133323577)  2025-10-15T16:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Those bastards have still got a couple of my fillings.🤨 Who remembers Toffo's https://t.co/w9gKU86Qwx Who remembers Toffo's https://t.co/w9gKU86Qwx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2016946127518552090)  2026-01-29T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@winklepin I do indeed Bluebird Toffee as I recall. Not sure they still make it but - as I've just found out - Walker's make slabs of tray toffee and yes they come with a little hammer too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2016981596457275628)  2026-01-29T21:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Love the Varley of the Lilburn Tower of Dunstanburgh Castle. The pictures are up and were ready for tonights opening #BADAFair #opening #watercolours #drawings #chelsea #sloanesquare #london https://t.co/M8HbmMqafc The pictures are up and were ready for tonights opening #BADAFair #opening #watercolours #drawings #chelsea #sloanesquare #london https://t.co/M8HbmMqafc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1108021299622891521)  2019-03-19T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"When on impulse (and without properly reading the catalogue) I bought a slightly tired but still curiously unwanted wide-format John Varley w/c for a maiden bid of [---] I'd assumed it was much like this one from last year the visible picture area measuring around [--] cm x [--] cm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1508449668430241801)  2022-03-28T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Just bought this superb 'Ionicus' pen & ink cartoon published in Punch in May [----] captioned "So much for the bulk of the estate - now for the residue" What a great cover design it'd make for a 50s/60s murder mystery - ideally one of Colin Watson's Flaxborough chronicles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1890095160740208854)  2025-02-13T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Trying to watch Leicester City -v- Arsenal on TNT and it's truly painful. There's not a moment of silence. Not one. Either the match commentator or one of the TWO summarizers is talking. Talking. Talking. All the time. Please please be quiet - even if only for a few seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1890749421995864238)  2025-02-15T13:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm a big fan of Bernard Hepton so I'll be there. A rare opportunity to view this [----] BBC version of An Inspector Calls starring Bernard Hepton: its on BBC Four on Wednesday at [--] pm. @daveainsworth63 https://t.co/BAgOUBaIE3 A rare opportunity to view this [----] BBC version of An Inspector Calls starring Bernard Hepton: its on BBC Four on Wednesday at [--] pm. @daveainsworth63 https://t.co/BAgOUBaIE3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1899169112695189650)  2025-03-10T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Worst Louis Wain forgery of the year Surely this one at Hudsons Home and Antiques timed sale ending on Sunday. The estimate A mere [----] - [----]. Embarrassing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1943682653959467199)  2025-07-11T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidBartram_ Number [--] - it's like a rare and expensive Daum glass vase from 1900"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1979936441355341874)  2025-10-19T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Rin Tin Tin - Hollywood's first dog star Lassie. Beat that https://t.co/nmubItIaSz Lassie. Beat that https://t.co/nmubItIaSz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1981702398298251580)  2025-10-24T12:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Well painted even if the perspective seems a tiny bit awry. I'd probably have made a gentle enquiry (quite a good title for it btf) Reading with grandma could be the title Saw it outside vintage shop today. 😍 Rutland https://t.co/FVRaZFGovA Reading with grandma could be the title Saw it outside vintage shop today. 😍 Rutland https://t.co/FVRaZFGovA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1982073424429424987)  2025-10-25T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Mrs Brown's Boys for sure. What movie do you think would make even a monster fear.lol https://t.co/fuMxp8pT2T What movie do you think would make even a monster fear.lol https://t.co/fuMxp8pT2T"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1983517566808240532)  2025-10-29T12:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I LOVE the cover to the first Space Cat book It's #NationalCatDay today https://t.co/ancyc2s0Ek It's #NationalCatDay today https://t.co/ancyc2s0Ek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1983671022768538075)  2025-10-29T23:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@militaryhistori It's Mister Mulliner Speaking for me. I feel compelled to read all the Mulliner stories every year or so together with the peerless 'Uncle Fred Flits By' - his masterpiece IMAO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1983873872001724888)  2025-10-30T12:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


""The emus are laying again." "How many eggs this time" "A clutch of four." "Welcome to Istanbul Mister Bond. London told me to expect you." The emus are laying again. https://t.co/k9U02aM7cb The emus are laying again. https://t.co/k9U02aM7cb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1983913640630571420)  2025-10-30T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SpursKKTC @TheCinesthetic I didn't know that The only other film I can remember seeing her in is 'Landslide' (1937) which is quite an interesting and unusual murder mystery featuring a theatrical troupe trapped in a cinema. It pops up on @TalkingPicsTV from time to time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1983990960653738217)  2025-10-30T20:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Sunset at Cow Holm near St Benet's Abbey an hour ago. It was so quiet and the air was so still that the loudest noise was the warp from a swan's wing clearly audible from a quarter of a mile away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1984669681236787361)  2025-11-01T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Just bought this pen & ink by David Smith dated 31.10.86 maybe for The Guardian. Not sure of the subject; could be linked to a then current book / exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites. I thought she could be Lizzie Siddal but a Victorianist pal thinks she's Jane Morris: any ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1985345565031551311)  2025-11-03T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I recently discovered an untapped seam of original gouache designs by famed postcard artist Donald McGill (1875-1962) and I've been mining it ever since. This one has a winning combination of cheek and charm: "Do you know what good clean fun is" "No - what good is it""  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1985443662671536150)  2025-11-03T20:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@LucySussex That certainly seems to be the consensus. I'm very pleased that she's such an interesting subject"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1985643339119522037)  2025-11-04T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LearNonsense Isn't it My long-distance correspondent and fellow collector Robert Dingley in Australia (a retired academic and Victorianist) originally made the suggestion. We thought she was probably linked to the PRB but had got no further than Lizzie Siddal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1985644653337530413)  2025-11-04T09:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"My neighbour's persimmon tree. On a damp grey November morning it feels like an act of defiance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1990018736192106673)  2025-11-16T11:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The old Elstree Studios frontage. It turns up in innumerable episodes of Danger Man The Saint The Champions etc often with exotic pot plants around the door pretending to be a Sicilian hotel or the Chief of Police's office in Buenos Aires. Christopher Lee Interview On Set of Taste the Blood of Dracula [----] Behind The Scenes https://t.co/PP8LU94YGY Christopher Lee Interview On Set of Taste the Blood of Dracula [----] Behind The Scenes https://t.co/PP8LU94YGY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1990129822006157766)  2025-11-16T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@hellothisisivan He made some real lulus at around that time didn't he I saw 'Woman Eater' a little while ago and thought that was the apogee of derangement but this sounds like its equal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1991457194337005693)  2025-11-20T10:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Artists have represented the might of Imperial Rome in a variety of ways down the years but generally better than this. SPQRFFS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1991907897794838655)  2025-11-21T16:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Noirchick1 That gal in the second row second from right. Those peepers could make a guy consider quitting the insurance racket to take up wife stealing and murder instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1991964473809317989)  2025-11-21T20:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"He stars in 'Please Turn Over' (1959). It's often on @TalkingPicsTV & is a very funny film with a central premise that allows its cast - including Leslie Phillips & Dilys Laye - to have a lot of fun. Ted Ray's drunk act towards the end is beautifully judged & a real highlight. Remembering the brilliant English comedian Ted Ray (Charles Olden) who was born on this day in [----]. He died in [----]. #TedRay #RaysALaugh #DoesThePanelThink #TheBettyWitherspoonShow #JokersWild #CallMyBluff #PleaseTurnOver #MyWifesFamily #CarryOnTeacher https://t.co/pDkTRvgOKx Remembering the brilliant English comedian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992194299069710738)  2025-11-22T11:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I love that the sleeve is a pastiche of 'albums' from the 1920s that combined five or six 78s in a single package allowing listeners to hear (for example) a complete Mozart symphony. Arguably it's also how long playing records (LPs) gained the alternative name of 'album.' Pearl Jam released their third studio album Vitalogy on this day in [----] (vinyl only). The CD and cassette format would follow two weeks later. Thoughts Favourite tracks #PearlJam https://t.co/zfDN1DGNAc Pearl Jam released their third studio album Vitalogy on this day in [----] (vinyl only). The CD and cassette format would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992217533441593563)  2025-11-22T13:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PerryLSKT I remember you telling me. He's in Gideon's Day too with a remarkably strangulated voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992304043058729143)  2025-11-22T18:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PerryLSKT Ah but did he have a dummy keyboard like Joseph Cooper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992310805317222544)  2025-11-22T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BeatlesPraise On a technical note 'Back in the USSR' was released as a single in [----] (and made it to # 19) but that was to promote the 'Rock 'n Roll Music' complation so had nothing to do with the original album release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992579716671483948)  2025-11-23T13:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"What A Carve Up belongs to a small curious category of film that is really quite poor but that one enjoys anyway. Playing an altogether different butler in the comedy-horror film What A Carve Up https://t.co/p4501wx2jz Playing an altogether different butler in the comedy-horror film What A Carve Up https://t.co/p4501wx2jz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1992950673965789546)  2025-11-24T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm thinking of putting this gothic looking candle on eBay fervently hoping for a bidding war between Dracula and Miss Haversham"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1993353410540683453)  2025-11-25T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"One of two pics bought today - this anonymous w/c the less expensive & only sleeper. Pretty sure it's a watercolour by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906). Although not initialled the large pencilled location 'Cannes' & the scrubby trees & sketchy people are typical. [--] inc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1993392041758212478)  2025-11-25T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This looks just like a lithograph from Eric Ravilious's book 'High Street.' Shop window Norwich. #WindowsOnWednesday https://t.co/cddGSy7fUQ Shop window Norwich. #WindowsOnWednesday https://t.co/cddGSy7fUQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1993708100822667603)  2025-11-26T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I bought a Frank Reynolds original today described by the auctioneers as 'watercolour of a man in a top hat' and to borrow a phrase from a parallel text I ask: "Are there no prisons Are there no workhouses" Are there no auction staff with even a little general knowledge 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1996315141000827227)  2025-12-03T20:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sinderinister @kennylanglea Seriously Stan.is Google unavailable in Dundee. 😇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1997042400083284255)  2025-12-05T20:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Gilliganista In this film as well as Jayne Mansfield he's also paired with the lovely Julie London (albeit in phantom form) so in fictional terms at least he was doing pretty well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1998540930077405654)  2025-12-09T23:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ephemeracity Not a sleeper as such - the lot of c [---] cartoons by Merrily Harpur whose work I've always liked because she has such an individual and recognisable style. The vendor withdrew it - and with an estimate of 200-300 I'm not entirely surprised (although still slightly miffed)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1999256675086213432)  2025-12-11T23:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PaulSuttonKing @georgiawrites I see similar tales popping up periodically & they always make me smile. If you put any old stamped & franked postcard from your collection into a postbox there's a decent chance Royal Mail will deliver it to the old address again & Voila an amazing story for the newspapers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/1999485881514885280)  2025-12-12T14:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PaulSuttonKing Remind me what a stamp tilt [--] to the left means please I think it's either 'I love you' or 'please pick up a packet of Borax and five Black Cat cigarettes on your way home.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2000865657722953892)  2025-12-16T09:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Considering the relative merits of the many fine things Wales has given the world my vote goes to the tapestry blanket. A wonderful combination of beauty culture and comfort this one goes everywhere with me and has made my lresent holiday let in Hay-on-Wye delightfully toasty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2001342538494738880)  2025-12-17T17:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PoochManor My wife and I discovered years ago that if you have a thin quilt combined with a Welsh tapestry throw you get all the warmth and comfort of a bed made with sheets and blankets but without the fuss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2001357103840330221)  2025-12-17T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I didn't think anyone would get me a John Varley (1778-1842) oil for Christmas so I bought one myself. It's a rare and bonny little painting with the added bonus (for a Norfolk resident) that it seems to depict - according to my researches - the beach at Cromer. Isn't it nice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2003207627028021720)  2025-12-22T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@devilscustard Thanks I'm trying to buy fewer pictures these days but the combination of Varley and Cromer proved irresistible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2003219177826582619)  2025-12-22T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BromleyCrossBoy Naked figures possibly white horse certainly. I think the crossed keys represent a windmill. I guess that in Yorkshire most women of a certain age go around wearing books on their head so that isn't worthy of comment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2003422583774150849)  2025-12-23T11:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"To all friends followers fools fantasists fatalists and fanesca *. . a very Happy Christmas. * A soup traditionally prepared only on Good Friday and eaten by households and communities in Ecuador"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2003945256547668336)  2025-12-24T21:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@batcountry1980 @dwannb A helpful corrective. Another factor is that while I don't personally detect much Muddy Waters in their sound (and none at all in their choice of material) the US acts that influenced them were often the black girl groups whose songs they covered extensively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2004876539712995716)  2025-12-27T11:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Tom Joad's cat getting some recognition at last. Its #Caturday https://t.co/f9eQ02ktL2 Its #Caturday https://t.co/f9eQ02ktL2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2004910339595387202)  2025-12-27T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sinderinister Me too BTW did you see my recent tweet about the surprising Tom Eckersley haul I bought recently Just your thing I would have thought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2006017740293734635)  2025-12-30T15:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"As a northerner my wife insists I 'first foot' the house at New Year bearing coal silver whisky bread & money to ensure health wealth & happiness. To ensure good pictures I added a David Cox w/c a Dee Nickerson gouache & a George Robey self-portrait. Can't be too careful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2006527614320783569)  2026-01-01T00:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @PedroPerico75 @hermannkarlovic @JaneNightshade @roger_bakes @AMclenon @performativeUtt @ihateclaims @mecalnan @CarloDallapicc1 It's a tricky novel to film exactly because Holmes doesn't appear for such a lot of it. I think Hammer's film with Peter Cushing in the lead probably shades the Basil Rathbone version good though that is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2006881148656611585)  2026-01-02T00:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"And horribly horribly accurate. The funniest thing in Viz for years. https://t.co/Yw7tqO22D3 The funniest thing in Viz for years. https://t.co/Yw7tqO22D3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2011136241430110451)  2026-01-13T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I've been reading Hollywood Hussar the autobiography of screen actor John Loder. Disappointingly Hitchcock's 'Sabotage' merits only a single sentence and 'How Green Was My Valley' barely two. On the plus side though we have this amusing little anecdote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2011436607103172735)  2026-01-14T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ozymandius This tourist told me all about The broken statue of a mean mean guy Sat in a desert. By P. B. Shelley it might be over https://t.co/wK9M0qWNUQ it might be over https://t.co/wK9M0qWNUQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2012526792293134544)  2026-01-17T14:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Started to watch 'Lynley' but gave up after [--] minutes. I've rarely seen so many clichs packed into such a flat insipid production. Instead we tried the Nathaniel Parker version from [----] which we'd never seen before. It was brighter smarter and - weirdly - felt less dated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2012900742630134125)  2026-01-18T14:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PoochManor We start off with the clich of the junior officer dissing her newly appointed superior just as he's coming through the door (clunk) which is followed up by the station commander saying archly "I see you two have introduced yourselves." (double clunk). Best avoided I reckon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2012996622544785822)  2026-01-18T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MarkWil67206795 The original show would pose a subtle moral dilemma to which there were a number of possible - and reasonable - outcomes and wrapped it in a good poluce procedural / courtroom drama. The new one says "isn't Racism / Misogyny / Rape / Murder bad" and just leaves it there. *Sigh*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2013954918307049791)  2026-01-21T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MarkWil67206795 @wellyousaythatt He looks like the young Larry Grayson here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2014301670650331262)  2026-01-22T11:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"With a name like that the Art Director must surely have started as a Set Decorator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2015045851559711133)  2026-01-24T12:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@winklepin Absolutely The live news feeds can be hilarious sometimes. AI can helpful for a first go but like everything else it needs a human at the end of the process to go oh hang on a moment. It's a bit like awkward literal translations of foreign idioms in subtitled movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/govauctionnews/status/2018653677255532772)  2026-02-03T11:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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