Stewart Bint 📖

Currently watching a rerun of The Invaders, for the first time since it was originally broadcast in 1967 and 1968.
It’s particularly poignant for me, as I was watching an episode on 15 May 1967 when Mum took a phone call from the hospital to tell her my Dad had died 💔💔

He also referred me for an X-Ray, ultra-sound scan, and endoscopy.
This afternoon, my local hospital rang with an appointment for an X-Ray tomorrow morning.
What incredible service from the NHS.
This is why we must keep Farage and Reform out, as they want to destroy the NHS.
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Hats off to the NHS.
I rang my doctor on Friday. They made an appointment for me with a nurse practitioner at a clinic on Saturday. She sent her notes to my GP, who rang me at 8.01 this morning with a face-to-face appointment at 11.20.
He booked blood tests for 11.50.
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Twelve years ago today fellow novelist DM Cain and I met face-to-face for the first time, having corresponded on Twitter for a few days, after we discovered we lived literally 1,000 yards from each other!
What a small world.
#writingcommunity

And we’re off…

Amen

Now there’s a name from the past that today’s youngsters won’t have heard of.

First of all, George was watching The Highway Rat.
Now he’s having a Mars ice cream.

Just back from a trip in my time machine to 2046.
Came across a powerful magazine article about a company who had started future-proofing its manufacturing plant now, in 2026.
The catalyst: the short-sighted current Government’s employment costs imposed on all employers.

Sparky’s playing peep bo.

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Has Chris Vobe created a new set of free form poetry rules here?
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First and last magazine columns.
Up Close And Personal ran for a total of 13 years: 107 editions fortnightly in The Flyer, from February 22, 2013, to August 25, 2017, then 85 monthly editions from November 2017 to March 2026 in The Big Red Magazine.

Thanks, Morgan. Hope you have a great Tuesday, too.

The first edition of Timeshaft, published on this day in 2013, and the second, updated edition, published in 2016.

Janice and Chris are safe in Indian Wells - but it’s only a few weeks ago they were in Dubai and Doha.
@wtatour.bsky.social

Go on, then. My DMs are open.

Now that I’ve retired fully from writing, the March edition of the magazine features my final restaurant review.

Truly the end of an era.
I’ve now retired completely from writing, and the March edition of the magazine features my last column.

It’s the best way!

Just looking through this week’s TV guide, and see that Rewind TV is broadcasting that brilliant series, The Gaffer, starring my old mate, Bill Maynard, from Monday

Can you spot him?

Appalling. History will not be kind to our current councillors who let this happen.

They have no idea of the damage it’s all doing to the health of the planet.

Some of them have been earmarked!

When I click on your @ now, the images are blank, and the processing circle goes round and round. It wasn’t like that half an hour ago. Their post showed up in my feed.

It looks like it’s just been deactivated.

Will do.

I don’t know how many mutual followers we have, but would you like me to post a piece on Twitter saying you’ve been hacked?

Oh. I was going to DM a screenshot of it, but we can’t add pictures in DMs here. Are you okay with me posting it here publicly?