I often visit faith schools & one of them just paid my invoice, meaning my bank statement shows a payment from Christ the Redeemer... which is comforting.

I'm watching parliament live & it's reassuring that Keir Starmer's biggest scandal to date is as boring & specific as all of the other stuff.

Warning: High sugar levels in this reading material.

Paul McCartney loves it when people tell him how much his music has meant to them over the years.

I had a similar thing the other day when someone outside the station said, "Oh hi. My son still sings your Bum bum fart song."

Oh, amazing. Please come along and say hi.

Yes, the ticket details are on that link. This is the venue I've gone for. I'll be on 11:40 every day for the first week.

CinderGorilla: The Musical (Gareth P Jones, The Ministry of Mini Musicals) Award-winning author / performer / musician Gareth P Jones presents a one-man, one-audience musical. Using a ukulele, piano, trumpet, loop pedal and two puppets, he asks you to help him turn h...

Please do come along - and spread the word.

www.thespaceuk.com/shows/2026/c...

Whereabouts are you based?

RABUNZEL THE MUSICAL #fairytales #musical YouTube video by Gareth P Jones

This summer, I have cancelled my summer holidays in order to take my mini-musicals on a tour of UK libraries as well as a week-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival & various music festivals. It's going to be a busy summer!

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Trump vs Pope

Two paperbacks on a wooden table: Terry Pratchett’s Mort and Gareth P. Jones’s Death or Ice Cream? Both colourful covers feature a skeletal Death draped in a black cape carrying a scythe.

Good morning! It’s a bright and chilly one.

This week I’m reading Terry Pratchett’s Mort and @garethpjones.bsky.social’s Death or Ice Cream. It felt like a good book pairing.

Excellent pairing indeed.

Published tomorrow in the United States of America.

Dear America
It's to time to decide
Choose wisely
This time.

Sometimes I sit quietly wondering what Jason Mraz's career could have looked like.

I love this oddity I found in a charity shop that Kenny Ball made for his Japanese fans.

I didn't even notice this one in this onslaught of illiteracy.

The punctuation here feels aggressively incorrect. I can handle Your but I find clock"s profoundly troubling.

Chicken vs Egg - Which Came First? YouTube video by Gareth P Jones

This Easter, ask the big questions!

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Must be a good writer then, but yes, he doesn't tickle my funny bone.

Ah, thank you.

I don't quite get Conan O'Brien. He certainly seems to know about comedy, but I've never seen anything he's done that seemed especially funny. I feel like I've maybe missed something.

Published today, my 8th picture book... and the answer to the question, which came first? The Chicken or the Egg?

Today's WBD tag is @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social @philipreeve.bsky.social who are visiting today's on Friday. I will, of course, be leaving booby traps and clues dotted around the school for them.

25 February 2026 YouTube video by Gareth P Jones

There never seems to be any rhyme or reason to which songs fare better or worse on YouTube but this one has clocked up a few more views than my average.

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I saw a woman trying to persuade the bouncer at Sainsburys to let her come in with her dog. The bouncer said only assistance dogs were allowed in & it made me wonder if you could make the case that your dog was a therapy dog & therefore get them in for that reason.

I'm excited to be on the same stage as national treasure, Michael Rosen & bestselling author AF Steadman this weekend, but also bracing myself for the humbling experience that often comes with being the same stage as folk who are massively more commercially successful than oneself.

Poem

It's nice to look forward to some of the very exciting festival appearances I've got coming up this summer. This isn't a show in which a book has been turned into a musical for you. You, the audience are a part of that adaptation. We all help bring these stories to life & every show is unique.

I always have to remind myself that no one is judging me for how I spend my time... I don't think.

Unless you are, in which case, how the hell can you see me?