Gina

Thank you. I might see if I can hobble to the pub

Me looking glum

I’ve hurt my foot and can’t go to the thing I’ve just got ready to go to so I am feeling sorry for myself :(

OMG

This will be a nice memento when you lose them

Would happily ditch it at this point

Well my ‘egg-making equipment’ ((c) once respectable author now internet-radicalised and increasingly unhinged nut job J.K Rowling) is certainly giving me a run for its money this weekend

Was thinking and I suppose as an artist it’s better to be included in an exhibition than not so I can appreciate the argument to include as many pieces as possible. But at the same time it’s hard not to see your work being stuck up right near the ceiling as a curatorial decision of sorts. I dunno.

I always feel sorry for those people! I haven’t been yet this year, going next week

An April Sunday brings the snow Making the blossom on the plum trees green, Not white. An hour or two, and it will go. Strange that I spend that hour moving between Cupboard and cupboard, shifting the store Of jam you made of fruit from these same trees: Five loads – a hundred pounds or more – More than enough for all next summer’s teas. Which now you will not sit and eat. Behind the glass, underneath the cellophane, remains your final summer – sweet And meaningless, and not to come again. Philip Larkin

Happy Birthday Philip Larkin

Water was consumed solely at school, as a desperate sip from a dented metal beaker with a school dinner, or if you were so parched during break that you literally couldn’t speak, a single mouthful from a highly suspect water fountain in the playground

As a Gen X kid I’m laughing at the idea of this so much as raising an eyebrow, given that none of us voluntarily drank a glass of water until we were about 20

To make matters worse our school water was lukewarm and tasted of pencil shavings

Perfect timing by the EFL to arrange the Coventry vs Hull match on Larkin’s birthday. The classic Larkin derby, nature vs nurture.

Yes I’d never heard of it either, despite living in Manchester in the early 2000s!

This is fabulous

❤️

Serge Gainsbourg smokes and looks sad

Just heard Initials BB on a car advert

Hope there was a new instalment of Timkey the Monkey

Literally days of confected outrage because a shop assistant in a shop asked a customer in a shop if they needed any help while shopping. This is so infuriating and so absurd.

‘Co-ords’ that look like pyjamas. Enough.

David's Prayer Nick Garrie · The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas (Bonus Version) · Song · 2019

Give me faith
To lead an upright, honest life
To sleep soundly through the night
And let all life be followed as it should

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Got, getting, need

Oh no! Get well soon x

HOW is he so mournful?

A poster for National Cherry Turnover Day on 28th August

What are you doing for it?

FFS, what an absolute prick. Loads of CCTV so I hope they captured it

RS Thomas Podcast Episode · Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast · 23/07/2025 · 39m

Somehow only discovered this week that Frank Skinner has been doing a poetry podcast for like….five years. Will be delving into the back catalogue but meanwhile here is a fab one on R. S. Thomas

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It’s lovely, but yes easy to see someone flattening it and building one of those awful houses that looks like a 90s leisure centre

What is it?