@thatmarkperkins

Ex-agency ECD in creative comms. Dad and whippet owner. Into QPR, history, repetitive beats, buildings, cricket and vintage films.

 West Byfleet / London
markperkinscreative.com/
Joined October 2008
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1. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 2. Blue Velvet 3. This Is Spinal Tap
Toddington@HXValleyOct 16
This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here's mine: 1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 2. The Cruel Sea 3. The Day of the Jackal
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I've got a some bananas in the kitchen that lasted longer than she did in her job.
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Birmingham, Swansea and Southampton left to play this month. QPR's pursuit of that 8th placed play off spot is ON.
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A favourite passage from Matthew Sweet's masterpiece biography on Barbara Cartland.
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Never knew the Dapne Biggs story but we all knew her. My mum and dad's favourite party song, which became a QPR anthem. They used to always stay at the bed for Hi Ho Silver Lining. It was played at both their funerals in 2022 and 2024. Chokes me up when I hear it now.
R Connection
@RConnection1882Oct 10
💙🤍 EVER WONDERED WHY QPR PLAY HI HO SILVER LINING? For QPR, this song is about Daphne Biggs. A much-loved figure in the Rangers family, Daphne loved the song. After her passing, the club began playing it after home victories in her memory. Now, whenever those familiar opening notes ring out at Loftus Road, they carry a little piece of Daphne with them. This is what R Connection is all about. The people, the memories we share and the connections that make QPR about so much more than football. Daphne Biggs. Always remembered. 💙🤍 A big thank you to @MarkofGrove for the suggestion. #QPR #RConnection #ForeverRs
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Seeing this and reminded how writer and restaurant critic Jonathan Meades described the words 'all the trimmings' as 'the most loathsome phrase in the English language'.
Stephen R Power
@racingbloggerOct 10
The Arsenal fry-up in the Heritage! 🔴⚪️ £50 fry-up with all the trimmings.
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Only Trump could whine at not getting the Nobel Peace Prize the day he does a deal with a war criminal to buy fuel that will help to finance a war.
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First proper whippet walk of the month. Riverside walk in Chobham.
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What a list. Surely nobody actually goes to Zurich other than to avoid tax? One of the most dreadfully boring places on earth. Dublin over any and every city in Spain or Italy? Buenos Aires may have its issues but THAT is a city.
Andrew Yeung
@andruyeungOct 2
New York City was just ranked the best city in the world.
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Fiancée away, daughter away. There was a time, not long ago, for that to be the cue to get a few unsavoury reprobates over to my house for a session. Today, I've gone to the gym, been drinking mineral water, and am reading a biography on Barbara Cartland.
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In the past week I introduced my 6 year old to The Beatles and in doing so rediscovered them. The music was a formative part of my teenage years. Then it became overplayed and familiar. Seeing her react to songs like I Am The Walrus and Lucy In The Sky brings the wonder back.
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Six year old came home from school with a painting she'd done, which she described as 'like Andy Warhol'. Today, she requested a tune in the car (for a time this was always Shakira, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift) and it was 'I Am The Walrus'. She is growing up fast.
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Spotted in Byfleet, Surrey. All your roofing and QPR needs.
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The whippet has been in this position for the past 90 minutes: hasn't flinched a muscle despite our movements, noise, and other random distractions. He's like a endurance performance artist doing a show at the Barbican.
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The last time I gained 1000+ followers from a single tweet was when I was sitting near Shakira at the Ivor Novello awards and shared a photo of her. Those Colombians and Shakira stans didn't hang around for long after when it went back to QPR, pubs and dogs.
mark perkins@thatmarkperkinsSep 27
Took my daughter to say a final goodbye to her late grandparents house today, with a buyer set to move in this week. She insisted on wearing her new QPR kit. Same spot, same child. Five years apart.
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Took my daughter to say a final goodbye to her late grandparents house today, with a buyer set to move in this week. She insisted on wearing her new QPR kit. Same spot, same child. Five years apart.
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The dumbest response which starts with 'Rule breaking aside' ignores the consequence of that rule breaking. City could outbid any other club for a player, tempt players away with doped up salaries the owning club couldn't compete with. Their entire success was built on that.
DP@GoldsteinRecSep 25
Rule breaking aside. Did Man City really gain much of a sporting advantage over the other top clubs when in reality, Chelsea and Man Utd spent similar amounts in that timeframe? I’d say not at all. The reason they won is because they made better decisions than everyone else.
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Buck Fizz's hugely underrated 1980s banger 'Land of Make Believe' was a subtle critique of Thatcherism (as revealed by its writer Peter Sinfield)
Darren Parkinson 🌍💚🤘@DarrenBar88Sep 20
Laura Kuenssberg: "Is it for people who are singers, songwriters, artists to be taking public positions on very very controversial, difficult, complicated issues" THE most stupid, ridiculous, uninformed, ignorant question I have ever heard. #BBCLauraK
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ONE OF THE BEST FAN VIDEOS YOU WILL EVER SEE! 🤯 10 man QPR come from 2 nil down to equalise against Preston! Looks like a proper old school recording. 🤩 🎥 Via (@fredstarbarton) #qpr #pnefc
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