Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge

Be proud of yourself too. You're a good dad 👍

Don’t Look Up: Writing Cosmic Horror - come join the madness - 15/11/25 - 11:00

I know from reading Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Spike Millgan wasn't a fan of the "bloody Warsaw Concerto", but I bloody love it.

Passed an old folks home on my travels this morning, where the residents were having a singalong to 'Side By Side@ with a chap on a guitar. Made me wonder what us Gen Xers will be singing when we fill up the homes. Britpop? Metal? "Everybody! SOOOO SALLLLY CAN WAAAIT, SHE KNOWS IT'S TOO LAAAATE..."

You have my sympathy. My childhood was full of other kids thinking they were so hilarious by rhyming my name with a range of pasta products. I rolled my eyes so often that it's a wonder I didn't get them stuck.

Apologies for presuming! It pleases me that you've taken to life in the East with such aplomb. Much like my West Country boy!

I’m looking for a little help with my PhD research: a service evaluation to understand how GPs assess and manage ppl presenting with #tinnitus & #hyperacusis.

If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins.

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Train hero who saved passengers during attack named The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.

Samir Zitouni deserves the George Cross for his courageous actions on Saturday night. It's awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger", not in the enemy's presence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see you back! I'm alright :-) Just enjoyed JL Carr's A Month In The Country, set up in your home county!

Thanks for sharing that article. So many important points there.

I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent

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Somehow Fesshole has been invited to SWEDEN. Tell your Swedish friends. Can't quite believe this is happening.

We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates.

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I feel they've learnt nothing from history (YouTube dislikes) and have doomed themselves to repeat it. Humans can't be trusted to use these things wisely! (I saw Roland Joffé's 1986 film The Mission last night and am feeling particularly disillusioned with our species right now.)

New post on the Substack about my third novelette, and second in the Vespertine series. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...

What a cracking evening: brilliant Bugle Live show AND Gian Van Veen winning the European Darts Championships!

Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!

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Your teenager is a Skutter and I claim my five pounds.

When I got married two years ago I went from a 5 letter surname to an 11 letter surname (as you can see above. I only use my maiden name for my writing). I've developed a squiggle of my initials that saves me and the postie time.

By contrast, I had a wonderful GP quite a few years ago called Tom Penistan, really lovely chap who died in his early 50s in a car crash. The funeral was packed. Holy Trinity Long Melford is not a small church and it was rammed. They don't make GPs like him, anymore. RIP.

AI and Cosmic Horror: A Conversation Know thy enemy I told myself and asked it a question. I was not quite prepared for the answer. "No malice, no motive, no reason"

I tested AI and the outcome was scarier than I expected
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My granddad swore blind his eldest brother was saved from a bullet piercing his heart in WW2 by a tobacco tin in his breast pocket. He showed me a paragraph in a book talking about it, but the book disappeared when his house was cleared so don't have details to check it out.

New post on the Substack: where the writer explains! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/being-for-...

Is squeezy Nutella a thing?

I entirely take your point, and now I've read my reply back, I realise that I came across as a bit patronising. Sorry about that.

I firmly believe it's not too late until you're pushing up daisies. My great-uncle was in his 50s when he met the love of his life.

Absolutely. I was 33 and he was 32 before we found each other, and it was worth the wait.

Thank you! It was the line "don't message me if your profile is all in block caps because it grates" that really drew me in.

I know a chap who was in total despair over not meeting any women who were interested in him, in RL and on dating sites. And then I read his profile and had to message him. We've been together 17 years.

Definitely written by someone who knows nothing about horses. Disappointing as "hangs up its horseshoes" has better flow!