Niall Murray

Omigod the wailing/talking bulldogs and pugs, I could send you so many of those and I EXPIRE every time.

I really want some Rolos now. I appreciate this is not the point.

The deep questions.

I sent this to Liz Truss and now she's watching Goldfinger.

Always found it pretty cool that there's a medieval demon of typos

Princess Diana is making me produce sounds like a blocked drain

Side note: I can't tell you when precisely I will find a future use for the gif I made of it, I just know the day will come and it will be EXACTLY the thing I need to express... something.

@timdowling.bsky.social has been adventuring with jelly and it looks like Pertwee-era Doctor Who communing with an alien ambassador who might be a baddie.

I’ve just finished Havoc by Rebecca Wait; an utter hoot, clever, thoughtful, really rather tender, awfully well written and did I mention it’s a hoot?

Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.

💙📚

Just needs some tiny biplanes and…

They won't appreciate it. No honour, apparently.

“The arrested man, who had himself appeared in a police appeal saying, ‘Look, we’re all trying to find out who did this’, has been named as…

😂

How-D.

It’s The Day After and I can offer you only this.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.

Not over it.

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...

Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious

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We finally did! Don’t think I can realistically claim credit though. 😆

Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍

An outcome in which lying wins the day because truthful people self-sabotage themselves out of contention is a bit too on the nose for these times, if you ask me. 😆

So cat.

What would be a good name for a bad pub?

“The Dog Returns.”

Drinking from the wrong side of the glass is the one thing that reliably cures hiccups* for me.

How does that work, then?

* Actually prefer the spelling ‘hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.

More lap time with the cat though…?

Welcome to that stage in life when your childhood gets recycled. 😁

I am increasingly of the view that there is nothing Schitt’s Creek can’t either explain, contextualise or illustrate. It’s like the 21st century’s I Ching or something.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaa

Another generation lost to drugs.

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

Got to love this headline.

YES PLEASE!

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families