What is the true destination of Speedbird Concorde One Nine Two?

Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye. Hold the mayo. Wheat toast.

Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye. Hold the mayo. Wheat toast.

Was listening to Hit the North by the Fall and the fire alarm went off and I genuinely thought it was part of the song.

It’s like a little holiday for the TV remote when you absentmindedly take it into the kitchen, isn’t it?

Research/inspiration for my new play Hair of the Dog. See it at the Seven Oaks, Manchester 24-29 March. Tickets: www.fatsoma.com/p/room-5064-...

It’s like a little holiday for the TV remote when you absentmindedly take it into the kitchen, isn’t it?

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Research/inspiration for my new play Hair of the Dog. See it at the Seven Oaks, Manchester 24-29 March. Tickets: www.fatsoma.com/p/room-5064-...

A brand new play ‘Hair of the Dog’ written by @markauthor.bsky.social and produced by @garethothevworp.bsky.social and 5064 Productions is
being staged at ‘Upstairs at the Oaks’
Manchester 24th March 2026 to 29th Match 2026.
It stars Jonathon Carley
@richardunwin.bsky.social and Adam Gardiner

Coming later this month from Room 5064 Productions - 'Hair of the Dog' - the new play from @markauthor.bsky.social. Featuring Jonathon Carley, Adam Gardiner, and myself. Opens on Tuesday 24th March at the Seven Oaks, Manchester. Tickets here: www.fatsoma.com/p/room-5064-productions

Mr Men are really into brogues, aren’t they? Had the range published a year or two later they might all have been drawn wearing Adidas three stripes.

“For Ringo, press the star key.”

When Lana Del Rey sings about her boyfriend playing video games I like to imagine he’s playing Chuckie Egg on a Spectrum.

Kenith Trodd obituary: firebrand TV producer and Dennis Potter’s right-hand man Trodd, who has died aged 90, was the bold and influential producer behind Dennis Potter’s greatest works, championing radical drama and shaping British television with a lifelong commitment to creativ...

We lost Kenith Trodd last weekend, a brilliant producer and forward-thinking man who believed deeply in television and the British screen. He was ahead of his time in many ways. "A film is a film is a film."

My tribute is now up on the BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk/news/kenith-...

Thanks!

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ‘K, thanks, bye.

The original grey goo.

To improve prisoner health Texas jails now have vibrating electric chairs that tone your muscles as they kill you.

This will be IMMENSE but it was worth buying just to see the look of bafflement on the face of the young guy serving in the charity shop.

Someone told me to check my privilege and I panicked. Topped it up and now it's fine. Phew.

Read It Forward with Bookshop.org This February, we invite you to Read It Forward. 10% of all children's book sales through Bookshop.

I'm supporting #ReadItForward2026! If you buy LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos during February, then
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to
@booktrust.org.uk
and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! Buy here - why not hoover up a few more books too!
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A van belonging to Edinburgh-based heating engineers DALEX.

SIR THIS RE-PAIR FALLS OUT-SIDE YOUR WAR-RAN-TY AG-REE-MENT.

Chewing gum is merely television for the mouth.

Very, very, very, very, very kind.

Thank you!

🦆My play about Douglas Adams’s struggles to write So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is now available as a download from the good people at Payhip: payhip.com/b/YbmCy

Finishing up my BAFTA film watch for voting… as ever I do wish that all the films with women screaming, sobbing, running in terror, being dragged across the floor… had the same amount of that stuff happening to men.

Happy PLR statement day to those who celebrate. If you’re an author and you haven’t registered your books for Public Lending Right payments, you could be missing out.

Here be dragons. No, don't actually look.