Andrew Oldham

Sunday writing or sitting in the garden?

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

Yes, quite good as I remember.

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

@louisarmand.bsky.social can you spot what's on my book shelf 😂

Now completed my Genesis collection pre-Hackett leaving. After there was three, I was free.

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém 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...

Watching these guys on BBC Four #laurelandhardy #cuckoosong

Wonderful films

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

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 #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

Album collecting.

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

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

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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.

Reading on my sumptuous duvet #sheristepper #sf

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Love Hennikay with Bill Bailey on Radio 4.

#reading

YouTube video by A Film Channel Blue Velvet - Opening Sequence

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

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

My lovely new record player for my 50th.

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

#writers