Canon Alberic’s Salbutamol
New MR James story just dropped
dm'd you
Only a few tickets left for my event this Saturday at Farnham Lit fest with @stephmerritt.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social. Come along if you’re in Kent or nearby or actually far away. Make a bloody effort.
www.farnham.gov.uk/farnham-even...
So that’s what she did after she got cancelled
Something I worked on back in the day. A repeat on #BBCFour this Wednesday, 8PM. Another chance to see #Timeshift’s Dial 'B' for Britain: The Story of the Landline: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
I think so too. A celebration of British idioms and iconography - and the idea that British artists must go to Europe for freedom and sustenance.
I'm thinking, though - is that really roly poly or a Danish cinnamon whirl?
Tony Hancock's The Rebel, a bank of Radiophonic Workshop synths, an orange Mini Cooper driving down the Dr Who time tunnel - and a banging chorus in German. Our Eurovision entry works for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...
(By emielscartoons on IG)
Dr Who parts 5-11
They don’t know about ectoplasm
One of her last acts was to launch her own website, with the help of the man who wrote the UFO encounter classic No Doubt About It for Hot Chocolate.
"Let's see how you like it, @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social..."
This is scaldingly good
when you are an author (or a student) putting in texts even "just for editing" into gen-AI, you are at risk of plagiarism bec this is how the algorithm works. in old-fashioned academic integrity lingo, you participate a mass "collusion". we end up with 30 essays with the same structure & argument
GB News are now bringing Restore Britain on to the channel to tell their own black British presenter, born in Newcastle, she is not British - and it is "ridiculous" to define being British in a way that includes black people.
Doing a course at @ies-sas.bsky.social on magical texts. Such a treat to be able to inspect and handle these treasures.
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
They were inseparable.
No I think it's her best mate Bernice
I think it's a rare skill - we hover above paragraphs now, don't we, rather than riding them and looking ahead ...
Here's what we all need to aim for
We all need cheering up a bit I think
Promise I'll get some pink stuff before publication day.
1970s bank robbery kit by Mattel
Oh thank you for this!
The piece was inspired by my involvement with this excellent short series on BBC Radio 4, presented by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...
Watching, as many might be tonight, An Audience with Kenneth Williams. He talks about losing his favourite record, and how Hattie Jacques found him a replacement. Noel Coward reading Clemence Dane's The Welcoming Land. It's here. Gorgeously patriotic. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
