Neil O'Riddleford

@neilrid.bsky.social

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Indie cycle retailer by day (rarely post about bikes though), choral leader and composer by night. Wimbledon champion 2020 (trust me on that). He/Him. @HangingPuppet on the app that has no name.

In a beautiful golden concert hall, a percussionist raises an improbably large wooden mallet high above his head; so high, in fact, that he is on tip toes. He is dressed in grey trousers and a black jacket suitable for a high-class orchestra, but not for the type of physical exertion he is currently engaged in. Thus, his clothes stretch over his physique. One can imagine than one second after this photograph was taken, the mallet struck the wooden box in front of the percussionist to give a shockingly loud BANG.

Friends in their early twenties gather around a grey , marble effect kitchen counter. A birthday cake is set in front of a young blond man in a grey sweater. It has three candles, all lit. He is covering his face to mask embarrassment or laughter, or both. A young woman stands over his shoulder. She is in a black t-shirt and loudly singing with wide open mouth, eyes closed and arms raised. Other people around her seem bemused.

A mock movie poster based on "The Martian" movie from 2015. Muted orange and brown colours. An empty, dusty landscape. An astronaut played by Matt Damon is in the foreground with a pensive expression. He is looking at the ground, although we can't see what he is looking at. The text on the poster reads THE MARTIAN MUSICAL: Lost on Mars, Found in Song!

Pale peach-grey rectangle with black text which says, "May life treat you the way you treat others on social media."