The new offering from @thefence.bsky.social pictured here on the Friday evening ‘what will the kids eat’ dash to Maccas. (The chicken selects are mine.)

Berkhamsted FC. Your town, your club. Welcome to Berkhamsted FC. A football club in the heart of the community that belongs to everyone. This new film showcases and celebrates everything we and our fans love about supporting the Comrades. Featuring real footage, true fans and the spirit of grassroots football, the film was created by the Berkhamsted FC Supporters’ Association, and narrated by the voice of football and Berkhamsted FC fan, Peter Drury. Become part of it next season with our early bird season ticket that includes entry to home league games, membership to our Supporters’ Association, and exclusive discounts around Berkhamsted all for £180. https://app.fanbaseclub.com/Fan/SeasonTickets/SelectClubTicket?clubId=263&SaleWindowId=12113

@barryglendenning.bsky.social Hey Barry. Heard on the last pod that you admire Peter Drury. Well hopefully you’ll enjoy this film he narrated for Berkhamsted FC - his local team, where I’m a director. We’re a small club with a big heart, playing step 3 of non league

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I don’t think you can be making that sort of claim without video evidence.

A warm welcome to the new @thefence.bsky.social from Ziggy and I. A different kind of slow news.

Good on you for being so clear and open about it. I have had a similar situation with my last publisher - total nightmare.

If these had any sense they’d have called it Haslam Common.

Delighted to receive the latest edition of @thefence.bsky.social. Pictured seasonally with some freshly cut rhubarb.

Six years ago today this came out. My debut novel, Our Life in a Day. It got some lovely reviews, had a wonderful launch and the readers I met enjoyed it. I remain hugely proud of it.

He’ll thin it across the green at the last. Never before seen at the Masters. Three putt, card nine and snap the club across his leg.

Thanks both. Great reads all round.

This is one of them. Not sure the other is still online www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

A thought provoking piece. I've written about this twice, and been on the radio talking about it once, since 2015. My sense is that large parts of the industry don't care all that much. Mad because even on an economic level they're missing out on so many possible readers.

I absolutely love this piece from @thefence.bsky.social. Partly because I remember the band and recognise every musical reference in it. Partly because the amount of conversations I’ve had about reforming my old band has surged after turning 40. A funny, true piece of writing.

Not today, Wordle. Not today.

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Also ‘Real’ smh

‘He treated us like idiots’: the crypto mogul and a bitter battle over Bedford’s football clubs Potential merger of Bedford Town and Real Bedford, led by an ambitious owner, causes rancour among fans who fear for the future

The big story in my club’s (Berkhamsted FC) league is hitting the headlines. Given that we’re second and three points behind Real Bedford, it’s dominating a lot of conversation about the outcome of the league. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

What is AI Doing to Our Brains? Untrended Podcast · Episode

Delighted to launch the new podcast from Publicis Pro.

Untrended. A show taking on the big topics in business and marketing, without any of the ‘get up at 5am’ bullshit and growth hacks you find elsewhere.

Our first episode is about the cognitive impact of AI. open.spotify.com/episode/4jGi...

What is AI Doing to Our Brains? Untrended Podcast · Episode

Delighted to launch the new podcast from Publicis Pro.

Untrended. A show taking on the big topics in business and marketing, without any of the ‘get up at 5am’ bullshit and growth hacks you find elsewhere.

Our first episode is about the cognitive impact of AI. open.spotify.com/episode/4jGi...

Nothing says British Christmas like a bloke in a Santa costume being towed around an estate on a trailer in the driving rain. Organised by the Rotary club.

I’d get £30 for this if I ran Yellow Bittern.

Delighted to see this published yesterday. Untrended is the collected ideas about business and marketing from the clever souls at Publicis Pro (the agency wot I work at). I love print, so am thrilled to have managed this into being. Also includes a crossword.

Everyone at The Fence has painful experience of the freelance pitching grind, so we've always sought to make our pitching process as open and encouraging as possible. We also pay everyone promptly. If you feel like you might be our next First Byline, hit the mail below. We don't bite.

I would suggest that the dudebros behind this understand neither books and publishing, nor AI.

New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

This is such a fucking stupid idea. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

Food as art. Which I’ll never fully accept it can or will be.

Swear to God every ten years a new generation of people comes along to totally get the wrong end of the stick re American Psycho.

I’ve often felt it’s the same hipster desire to know about a band before everyone else does, just manifested differently. Chefs seem to have displaced musicians as apex of creativity and cool. Still, much more dull for sure.

If this is 2009 to 2012 era Twitter, I would like to see two things:

1. @foylesforbooks.bsky.social BookGame return.
2. The Shippams Fish Paste parody account.

#paste

Admittedly some way outside the 92, but I signed @berkofc.bsky.social up today. We’re step 4.

Oh wonderful. Enjoy! I have managed to completely miss the news that they are touring.