Chris Ould

A page from Salt Lick with the following excerpt highlighted: "The ground floor is large, white and mostly empty except for the few shop dummies. The six in the window stand in orderly anticipation, as though waiting for the rapture. A disparate bunch of stragglers lag behind, some of them still wearing the odd item of clothing."

#Rapture is imminent - it's thrilling! But if tomorrow, nothing has changed and you want to recapture the heady rapture thrill of today, buy a copy of my book, Salt Lick from me. Probably the only book on the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist that included any reference to the blessed event

Oop north we still say six a-clock!

Living fleece and leaf
#sheep
#iphonephotography
#dailyphoto

The embarrassment is made all the more acute by the moronic (and wrong!) salute.
Remember bone spurs? Never served a day in his life but salutes like a **** at any opportunity.

A tin bath part full of water outside showing a reflection of the sky and clouds

Tin bath sheep trough
#iphonephotography

Highly recommended. Although I may be slightly biased.

Because...?

"Why?" what? Preorder? Write them? Buy them? Genuinely curious.

A plum on a tree with bursting skin to reveal the inner flesh

Bursting with goodness!
#plums
#iphonephoto

Close up of three yellow-green acorns on a tree surrounded by leaves

I think it may be a mast year for egg-corns around here
#acorn
#iphonephoto

If you need some more we have a glut this year! Help yourself!

In this dry weather the sheep will take any extra browsing they can find. In this case a blackthorn removed to let the tractor in.
#sheep

Reminder for anyone in the area, I am doing a conversational talk and signing copies of my new book, Beast, at Bridport Waterstones next Wednesday 27th at 6pm. Would love to see/meet you.

A genius!

The Passable Alex Harvey Band

(Who will always be Sensational to me!)
#SAHB

Personally, I'm hoping it's the Great Eastern Overspill Outlet, and NOT the West Midlands Secondary Trunk Route.

Brautigan! How could I have missed the Mighty Brautigan!!

Strange that he sounded so certain about that.

That's a VERY high bar you've set there! ATM I can think of only two (Roger Zelazny from youth, and Orwell) but the grammar of the challenge should be dinned into BBC journos!

Strange fruit!

Pretty sure I've asked at least three of these (but in English)

#shed

#thatch

True, that!

This fine fellow wasn't happy about being disturbed by recent re-paving work. #toadoftheday
#toad

Tomorrow a new #blogtour begins to celebrate publication of Stella Blómkvist’s latest novel #MurderTide in English, translated from #Icelandic 🇮🇸 by @graskeggur.bsky.social 😎

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Little Omen

Looks like a fun weekend! ( but no suntan lotion?!)

"Even though"!?
Tcha!
"Come to Dorset: it's the new Bloomsbury. Didn'tcha know?"