Will Vigar @willvigar - Bluesky Profile

Sixth draft of my novel completed. Described as being 'the result of Shuggy Bain and Armistead Maupin getting it on at Ken Loach's Hallowe'en Party.'

Gets my vote...

01.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's certainly better than Nolan's travesties.

17.09.2025 06:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I keep forgetting this is here...

12.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Iconic is the new awesome. Both have specific meanings, both now mean, not bad! Bah...

19.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have. I've even had membership, but of the three I've tried, the atmosphere has been pretty unpleasant. Well... Hostile. I've some bits of equipment at home, which keeps the doctor of my back, but I think the days of having a chiselled body are well and truly over. I'm actually OK with that.

18.05.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lift heavy and run fast are not things for me. I used to love running until arthritis took that away, but I've never been one for gyms.

16.05.2025 08:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Four out of six isn't bad, I guess...

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28.04.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Parallax 1 – Thenamong the pepper dulse and carrageeni am wracked with sobshe takes his sockdressing the woundsmiling telling methe blood will washaway and so it doeswithin moments Iam back alive blit…

I'm not usually one for blowing my own trumpet, but I'm really proud of this #poem and don't think it got anywhere near enough love last time I posted it. So, basically, I'm waging my finger at you lot ;-). #Poetry #parallax wp.me/s7hxIP-paral...

28.04.2025 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Much as I love Ncuti Gatwa (and this week's episode is rather good) I'm going to call him Doctor Boo-Who from now on 😭

26.04.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More Shit About Soft Play You know I love Soft Play. I’ve mentioned it before. I’ve waxed, opined, fanboy squeed…a lot. Heavy Jelly remains my most played album of the last twelve months and most of my time seems to be underlined and soundtracked by Soft Play. I seriously love them in a way my 14 year old music obsessive self would have thought was a bit much.

More Shit About Soft Play

You know I love Soft Play. I’ve mentioned it before. I’ve waxed, opined, fanboy squeed…a lot. Heavy Jelly remains my most played album of the last twelve months and most of my time seems to be underlined and soundtracked by Soft Play. I seriously love them in a way my 14…

22.04.2025 12:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, Pope, upstaging Jesus is not a good look...

21.04.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Physically or mentally?

02.04.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought you named it after me :-(

29.03.2025 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's that bloody David Attenborough again - just smile and pretend you haven't seen him.

29.03.2025 09:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Green Man: Myth and Reality – Imogen Corrigan I was in the process of writing - well, researching - an idea I had for a novel. It involved various incarnations of the Green Man and probably owed more to Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing than I care to admit. It was a very cozy eco-centric idea in which the remaining green spaces fight back against the great polluters and yadda yadda yadda…

The Green Man: Myth and Reality – Imogen Corrigan

I was in the process of writing - well, researching - an idea I had for a novel. It involved various incarnations of the Green Man and probably owed more to Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing than I care to admit. It was a very cozy eco-centric idea…

29.03.2025 09:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Parallax 1 – Thenamong the pepper dulse and carrageeni am wracked with sobshe takes his sockdressing the woundsmiling telling methe blood will washaway and so it doeswithin moments Iam back alive blit…

My first #poem of the year. Bit late, but it's been an odd few months. willvigar.net/2025/03/26/p... #poetsofbluesky #poetry #spokenword #poetry #scotland #memory #childhood #closure

26.03.2025 11:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ardnamurchan: The Distance Between Us. And so, after half a century, I finally make it back to Ardnamurchan. It is both a moment of triumph and a moment of disappointment. Part of the disappointment is due to misreading the website for…

Yes and No. Melancholic, certainly. The piece I wrote this morning is below but it contains a link to the rest of the story. This morning's piece is a king of coda. wp.me/p7hxIP-DH

20.03.2025 20:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ardnamurchan: The Distance Between Us. And so, after half a century, I finally make it back to Ardnamurchan. It is both a moment of triumph and a moment of disappointment. Part of the disappointment is due to misreading the website for the lighthouse. The daily opening times are quite clear, but the dates between which those opening times apply are not. Even internet travel sites were confused declaring it open, even as we arrived to find it closed.

Ardnamurchan: The Distance Between Us.

And so, after half a century, I finally make it back to Ardnamurchan. It is both a moment of triumph and a moment of disappointment. Part of the disappointment is due to misreading the website for the lighthouse. The daily opening times are quite clear, but…

20.03.2025 20:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😞💔🖕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

19.03.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm concerned. 'The Return of Spinal Tap' wasn't great, so I have reservations about it. We shall see ...

13.03.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ley Lies Map 1 1 All Mathematics would suggestA steady straight line as the best,But left and right alternatelyIs consonant with history. In his book How We Believe, Michael Shermer argues the human brain has evolved to be a pattern recognition engine. The patterns themselves are real but often subjective. The interpretations of these patterns are sometimes based on correctly perceived information and sometimes an attempt at imposing meaning on chance manifestations.

Ley Lies

Map 1 1 All Mathematics would suggestA steady straight line as the best,But left and right alternatelyIs consonant with history. In his book How We Believe, Michael Shermer argues the human brain has evolved to be a pattern recognition engine. The patterns themselves are real but often…

13.03.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lies, Damned Lies and Archives. . i The past is fragmented and falsified. Of course, this is nothing new. Archives have been doing this since the concept of archive was first mooted but if, as a result of this constant real time revisionism, all we remember is false, are we not contributing to our own psychological entropy? Academic archives, at least, tried to illustrate a flow of time and thought even if that was subject to societal and personal preference.

Lies, Damned Lies and Archives.

. i The past is fragmented and falsified. Of course, this is nothing new. Archives have been doing this since the concept of archive was first mooted but if, as a result of this constant real time revisionism, all we remember is false, are we not contributing to our…

11.03.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It ends well ...

10.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Weird and Eerie (2) The Phantom Hitch-Hiker Part Two – The Phantom Hitch Hiker. i. Thumbs It is 1981, and my friend Mark had just bought his first car. We would go for night drives, searching for UFOs or headless horsemen or any other ‘weird shit’ that might populate the Lincolnshire Wolds. In their expected – but disappointing - absence, we would share whale tumour stories and lurid urban legends.

Weird and Eerie (2) The Phantom Hitch-Hiker

Part Two – The Phantom Hitch Hiker. i. Thumbs It is 1981, and my friend Mark had just bought his first car. We would go for night drives, searching for UFOs or headless horsemen or any other ‘weird shit’ that might populate the Lincolnshire Wolds. In…

08.03.2025 07:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've started having nuclear war nightmares again... :-(

05.03.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weird and Eerie (1) – Last Train To London Dark – Part Two. xiii. Rik Rack Recumbent On a bench outside the main gate of King's Cross Station, I see a familiar face. Rik Rack has poured himself into a solid wooden bench that is pooling water. He is blissfully unaware of the encroaching wetness and sleeps peacefully. Tuckered out, no doubt from a nighttime railing against the electric dogs in Anglesey. I looked at him for a moment a reached into my wallet.

Weird and Eerie (1) – Last Train To London Dark – Part Two.

xiii. Rik Rack Recumbent On a bench outside the main gate of King's Cross Station, I see a familiar face. Rik Rack has poured himself into a solid wooden bench that is pooling water. He is blissfully unaware of the encroaching wetness and…

05.03.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've worn a nose ring since I was 18 and a runestone pendant since I was about 25. They never ever come off. Earrings came and went.

04.03.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One or the other, please!

04.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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