They definitely need a repeat and an iPlayer slot. And a re-release on physical media.

I wish they were on iPlayer. That would help (I have the DVD and the script book, just wish they were available in a format most people look for things in). The writing is just superb throughout.

#JFT97

My Creative Writing MA at York St John was two hour classes, consisting of doing exactly this for an hour followed by an hour of workshopping people's creative work. It was amazing.

A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half. I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread. The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn. A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel.

I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this.

This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

[cetacean needed]

Feel free to take this up with me on the train any time, Helen. I’ll be the other one reading fanfiction, but for joy and pleasure, not whatever the hell it was you were doing.

Two pope-themed bottle openers, one featuring JP2, and one with Benedict 16th

The main thing is, you need to make sure you pick up a Popener in the gift shop: they make your beer extra-holy

Yes, it was an all-round win.

I got to meet Terry Jones for a Q and A at the Cambridge Film Festival. I had just read Gawain and the Green Knight. We had a fantastic chat about it. He was lovely

The League Cup semis were played in Feb 1994, and one was Man. U Vs Sheffield Wednesday, so that could be it? Would explain the black detail on the red, white and black can as well

I homed in on the "Feb" and completely missed the "1994"...

The League cup was sponsored by Coca Cola that year, and the same sides contested it

Thrilled to share the stunning cover for FOLKISH by @kymdeyn.bsky.social and make it available to pre-order now.
Artwork by Letty Wilson.

'Bold, inventive, sardonic. Ripe with scavenger gods, local saints and legends.'

Playful, spirited and absolutely furious.
ninearchespress.com/publications...

good moon tonight, large moon

no I'm not going to check the news, just look at the moon

Vital to CGI in the right breed of dog

If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.

if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself

Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.

This makes me wish me and my wife had called each other "my wife" before we married, so someone could say that to us

Thanks for posting this. It's very helpful.

Farming is “worthless” as a career if you decide - as many retail businesses did - that you won’t pay properly for its products. That doesn’t mean we don’t need food any more.

It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.

So knickers and bras is a no-no but can fellas go into the ladies shoes department? Handbags? Ooh, what about tights? And is the bit of the shelf in the Co-op with the tampons off limits too? Gosh, it’s all terribly confusing, almost like it’s utter bullshit.

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Every tech billionaire’s personality can be distilled down to “what if friend computer?”

A lot of people who are like “you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t eat that” couldn’t even point to Potato on a map

Image shows a cardboard sign reading "Menopausal dyke for trans rights", with an inexcusably bad attempt at the trans flag in the bottom left corner

Complement to the sign I made for York Pride

Image shows the front cover of the 2025 York Literary Review, with a gorgeous illustration of two hand (painted in red) clasping diagonally across a cream cover; leaves and flowers garland the top hand. The book is available from Valley Press, whose logo is on the cover, alongside that of the YLR and York St John University

Image shows a black and white line drawing of a sink with buddleia growing around it

Very pleased and chuffed to get my author copy of the @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social, and especially honoured that my short piece, "Landscaping", was added to with a beautiful little illustration. Huge thanks to all the YLR team.