“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: today was Groundhog Day.”

Copy of Aotearoa New Zealand paperback version of “The Axeman’s Carnival” by Catherine Chidgey. Cover depicts an Australasian magpie sitting on an axe that has been embedded in a log.

Here’s the thing: you can never have too many “new, favourite” authors. Powerful, dark, ironic - and with a fabulously unreliable narrator. Also recommended: #TheBookOfGuilt
#CatherineChidgey
#TheAxemansCarnival
#AotearoaNewZealand
#BookSky📚

“And so they climbed every mountain and crossed the border, in the vain hope of escaping the sound of music.”

“That shark had huge jaws.”

Underrated.

Muttley-style snickering.

Question Time and VAR: the perfect combo.

There goes Sunday.

Never mind the eight disc limit; I’m taking every last note to the desert island. (But if it has to be just one … “It Makes No Difference.” Or maybe “Life is a Carnival.”)

Yay. With brown sauce.

He c tain y d s!

And Bobby Charlton impersonator.

She is beyond wonderful.

You missed out Mace.

An auntie bought me a can of Saxon Musk one Christmas. Binned on Boxing Day.

A record with two B sides.

iamb affled

Cover of the UK edition of ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak. A blue raindrop is the central image.

Sometimes, you know a book will stay with you for life. Just … wonderful.
#ElifShafak
#ThereAreRiversInTheSky
#BookSky📚

And (I always say this) a free car park.

I’m doubly grateful to Larkin: not only for his poetry, but for nudging me towards jazz. Bechet was the start; the reviews opened so many other doors. And others followed. I can’t be the only one.

Michael Bentime’s ‘Potty Time’!

“However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing”
George Orwell.

Sui generis.

Can’t have been a hug.

Dorks of the world unite in celebration.

Sublime.

Sickth 🤦‍♂️
Six-th. 👍

“I’m not sure” … nice understatement.

And smaller.

If I block the word ‘Andrew’ right now, my timeline will be reduced by about 90%.