Mike Wallis

also can we have a moment of appreciation for ballongförbud, because that is such a great word.

a photograph of a sign on glass of a red circle slash containing a balloon. underneath reads "ballongförud" and on the next line "no balloons"

Because every warning label has a story behind it, I have questions.

On the entrance to tracks 1 & 2 at Malmö central station.

Visiting @wordweave.bsky.social who is doing writer-in-residency in Skara, Vastergötland.

oh! @wordweave.bsky.social has a residency there at the moment. It is spectacular lakeland country and I hope to do more than just a flying visit sometime soon.

That is an excellent reason to go to Stockholm.

That sounds like a brilliant way to spend a few days.

Skara, a very small cathedral town in Vastergötland. Were in Stockholm for anything in particular or did you just feel like having a trip there?

ooh, nice. Any particular reason or did you just feel like having a wander about?

one really nice thing about being in Sweden for a few days is that I feel completely out of the loop and that, my friends, is a fantastic feeling. I have no clue what dippy english speaking political bobbins is going on and am just fine with that.

Possible new author photo? 😀

A cartoon of a partially skeletonised Bugs Bunny with the caption "November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing". There is a carrot in Bugs' ribcage.

Happy Nov 14th, everybody!

Hang on, the Prescott Memo *isn't* about punching someone who eggs you on camera?

Just randomly remembered the time a guy came up to me in Leeds asking me to vote for him for PCC, and when I asked if he was a member of a political party told me he was backed by the Tories, and I said I didn't believe PCC should be a political appointment and he called me naive.

If I lived in the north, I would be submitting to Carnyx Press. Good advice from good folk.

like we needed *another* reaon not to use dropbox.

the last competent PM we had was Gordon Brown, for goodness sakes.

for the love of suffering deities can someone please just run the chuffing country in a grown-up manner instead of indulging in petty JCR halfwittery?

there's been too much redevelopment and one section confused me, so it took me 2. am mortified by that.

oh, without a doubt.

instead of a slap drone why not pay an underemployed tuba player to follow wrong'uns about? cheery oompah soundtrack when all's well, ominous Wagnerish score when crimering.

it's literally stolen from Iain M Banks, pretty much word-for-word.

pfft don't even joke about that. he'll have treatments in a drawer.

Quick reminder: appeasing someone who hates you will not stop them hating you. (everybody here knows this, whichever side of the fence they are.)

Poems out this month with @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social & @dustpoetry.bsky.social & an acceptance just in from another favourite for publication in Feb, all while on residency in Sweden - that shooting star I saw on my way to the airport is working flat out! #skara trip

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Writing an entire parallel universe where the Beatles were nonexistent takes effort, and you did it twice. Nobody can accuse you of shirking.

I have the Bonne Maman advent calendar, folks. December will be a minimum of 33% toast.

Watched The Menu (finally). Margot's "this food isn't made with love but obsession" scene, from her clap to her leaving is one of the best pieces of storytelling I've seen in ages. It would probably work as standalone. Really good work from Fiennes & ATJ.

Oh, without a doubt. You might need to start drinking Irn Bru just to be in the safe side.