Tree House Bookshop

Yes, always interesting when that happens. I now expect to see it on a regular basis!

I have not heard the word lede before. #Connections is so educational.

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Haha, Black Country folk don't like being confused with Birmingham! All good though.

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

Well, Dudley/Black Country rather than Brum...but love this!

Haha, I presume you've seen the video, which is fabulous!

A much-maligned record! I love it.

#nowplaying 🖤
'BABE I'M ON FIRE!!!'

That's fantastic!

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

This beauty, from the Booker shortlist.

#inktober day 4 'Murky'

I started from fog and wandered... as I sometimes do, into a place of dreams and memories x

Crikey... (Them not you!)

Absolutely. His bravery in the service of film knew no bounds. www.grunge.com/440244/buste... #BusterKeaton

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing.

most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT.

archive.ph/LFmzR

Some weekend reading for you!

A mouse in high 18th century women's fashion examines herself in a mirror, seated on a sumptuous sofa while another mouse is peeping through a gap in the fabric behind her.

Out of all the hundreds of Beatrix Potter's illustrations, I think this one, from 'The Tailor Of Gloucester', is probably my favourite. It's just exquisite.
#BookWormSat #BeatrixPotter

Not surprised - they are beautiful!

We'd like to reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. Pictured is Stan Lee, our retired shop cat who died in December.
carpelibrumbaltimore.com

why pay westend prices
when you can pay turnpike lane prices?!!

This weekend we have:
comedy club tonight! 4 great acts!

Saturday - Story Telling delight!

All with a bar as cheap as wetherspoons!

#bookshop #events #comedy #storytelling #n8

'All of this loud enough to blow the froth off a cup of horlicks two tables away.'

'I told her, you've yet to click in Cheadle, I think that hit home.'

YouTube video by ukcomedy Patricia Routledge Kitty

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

As usual I am in trouble.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

If you're not altogether familiar with #Bandcamp, here are some of the ways you can use it to support independent musicians, all all days, not just #bandcampfriday:

www.johnreedmusic.com/some-really-...

Agreed!

I find these hard to Swallow...

No.