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Nick J. Brown

@northernmailman.bsky.social

Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025) “He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”

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Funnily enough it’s from Thurston Moore’s Instagram, so he’s keeping familiar company.

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Bobby Gillespie and Glen Matlock in front of twinkling lights

Bobby Gillespie and Glen Matlock in front of twinkling lights

Christmas markets with this one…

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You know I will. I really will. Thank you!

04.03.2026 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
dear nicky
thank you for the ace drawing of me in my
"bigshorts" kit.
enclosed are your badges and com 10 you sent for..... but... you forgot to enclose any money for them !
So you now owe me f1•80P .
best regards
Frank sidebottom.

dear nicky thank you for the ace drawing of me in my "bigshorts" kit. enclosed are your badges and com 10 you sent for..... but... you forgot to enclose any money for them ! So you now owe me f1•80P . best regards Frank sidebottom.

He was just the best. This is one of my most treasured possessions, a letter from 1990 after I’d forgotten to include a postal order when I bought some badges…

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It’s just great that he’s still there.

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I remember seeing it around then on my way to work. The next day I passed and he’d had a cock and balls scrawled on him.

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That’s your name is it? Mr 55p!

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A street seller shouting BOILED ONIONS from Vic & Bob’s The Weekenders

A street seller shouting BOILED ONIONS from Vic & Bob’s The Weekenders

Wednesday

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All the hits!

03.03.2026 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

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a man in a white suit is dancing on a stage with a band behind him . ALT: a man in a white suit is dancing on a stage with a band behind him .

The bus!

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When a Child is Born Bald!

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So much great stuff picking just the four pics is a struggle.

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The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer, Series 2, Episode 2

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The Icicle Works do sound slightly odd in that way perhaps only Liverpool fans can be. Match report by Mark E Smith.

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Dodgy ref, sounds like a Kicker Conspiracy to me.

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One of the lesser known blues standards

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a man with his eyes closed is sitting in front of a blue screen . ALT: a man with his eyes closed is sitting in front of a blue screen .
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I’m sure she’ll be understanding and will have dealt with worse.

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Ah great. Good luck with it! I had some a few years back and it really helped me.

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No wonder we’ve all got bad backs.

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The American one was funny about 30-40 years ago, but about anymore. Just seems lazy to import an idea long past its best.

02.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Joan Didion hardback of The 1960s and 70s fiction and essays

Joan Didion hardback of The 1960s and 70s fiction and essays

Reading for this week…

A Book of Common Prayer

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Postman Pat appalled by a field

Postman Pat appalled by a field

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Top warmup man Bobby Chariot

Top warmup man Bobby Chariot

‘As Paul Young sang, ‘Wherever I leave my hat, that’s where my hat is’…’

(For a change this is an actual Bobby Chariot gag)

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Poor Bobby

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GET BOBBY CHARIOT IN, YOU COWARDS!

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The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer, Series 2, Episode 1

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I’ve got a signed copy of Don DeLillo’s The Silence which has a big blank space where his signature should be.

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