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Andrew Oldham

@bongosherbert.bsky.social

Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer

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Sunday writing or sitting in the garden?

27.04.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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World Happiness Report: Readers share acts of strangers' kindness BBC News told of kind acts following UN report that found strangers' helpfulness was underestimated.

We need more of this in our news so it becomes a cultural norm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #kindness

23.03.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, quite good as I remember.

21.03.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
World Poetry Day 2021 with Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester City of Literature World Poetry Day 2021 with Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library

One from the archives: 'I have become the Green Man' youtu.be/8v47jCU-U9g @McrPoetryLib @McrLitFest #WorldPoetryDay #WorldPoetryDay2021 #unesco

21.03.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@louisarmand.bsky.social can you spot what's on my book shelf πŸ˜‚

21.03.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now completed my Genesis collection pre-Hackett leaving. After there was three, I was free.

21.03.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in BelΓ©m is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

I simply have no words. It just shows the injustice of #climatechange. The rich maintain their status quo and the poor get displaced, and their communities destroyed but then denied a voice at #COP30 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12.03.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching these guys on BBC Four #laurelandhardy #cuckoosong

20.02.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful films

20.02.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching The Ladykillers on #skyarts. I have always loved Ealing Studios but this is a masterpiece in cinema.

20.02.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Creativity does not come from a machine, it comes from human interaction, human understanding and concerns. It is the power of many to change one idea. The power of one person to spread an idea. It is not the thieving and desecration of writers with words #PayTheCreatorΒ #MadeByHumans

18.02.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Album collecting.

11.02.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I am as ready as I can be for my PhD final viva, even with a rotten cold, I have prepped and prepped. Always hard to know what to expect in a creative viva. So, I have given myself the day off and I am in bed, feeling rotten, watching #doctorzhivago

08.02.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Deathband by Andrew Oldham – The Real Story

Still like this piece of creative non-fiction therealstory.org/2021/01/29/d...

03.02.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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03.02.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My DNA is 66% Scandinavian Viking and I have DNA from this guy. Yes, Cheddar Gorge Man, I am one of only 10% of UK people who are descended from the first Briton.

01.02.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading on my sumptuous duvet #sheristepper #sf

30.01.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do I need AI to rewrite my words? I have spent a lifetime doing so. There are no worlds or words that it can show me that I have not imagined or read because AI has yet to truly create, truly think, truly imagine #writers

29.01.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All I can say about AI images is why? Perfect people from an imperfect past, created by the perfect first steps to creating a digital God. And as all Gods do, it will leave us behind.

29.01.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And in the grim garret I mooch and moan about the weather.

28.01.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Invasion II - Andrew Oldham
YouTube video by poem notes Invasion II - Andrew Oldham

I wrote this many years ago and I was always touched that someone else recorded it #HolocaustMemorialDay youtu.be/khExjWf8jBU?... #poetry #neverforget

27.01.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So climate change anxiety does have a name, it's called pre-traumatic stress disorder and was first recorded in climate change scientists in the early 1990s #climatechange

25.01.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

DNA has come back, 6% Irish and 5% Norwegian.

23.01.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love Hennikay with Bill Bailey on Radio 4.

22.01.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#reading

21.01.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Blue Velvet - Opening Sequence
YouTube video by A Film Channel Blue Velvet - Opening Sequence

Just leaving that here, perfection youtu.be/TwuzI8Y0uW0?... #davidlynch

16.01.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is famous for the film Mulholland Drive and the TV series Twin Peaks.

Truly unique. I used to teach the opening of Blue Velvet, a masterpiece in film, damn perfect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #davidlynch #bluevelvet

16.01.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My lovely new record player for my 50th.

15.01.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tony Slattery: Comedian and actor dies aged 65 He was known for his quick-witted improvisations on shows like Channel 4's Whose Line Is It Anyway.

What a loss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #tonyslattery

14.01.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#writers

14.01.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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