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YouTube video by Marsh Family "Peter Mandelson" - Marsh Family parody of "Mrs Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel on Epstein Files

Here’s a weeknight quick turnaround 🎶parody on the UK fallout linked to #EpsteinFiles #PeterMandelson's friendship with him, and the bigger implications ... we chose song #mrsrobinson from #thegraduate about vice/virtue!

youtu.be/h870VJsLk_c

Link to forthcoming album at end: orcd.co/hollowchapters

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow Lyin' and Spinnin' (and Cheatin' and Hidin') - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Lyin’ and Spinnin’: My Apocalyptic Valentine 😬💘

Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain? Shropshire Council’s push to demolish its former HQ, the late-1960s Shirehall in Shrewsbury, encapsulates everything wrong with how we treat our existing buildings, argues Leanne Tritton

Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
We really need to move to a more circular built environment.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

How I love a misty #Shropshire landscape, with its eerie white silence transporting you into a world of your own. I was standing on the ramparts of Nordy Bank hill fort on Brown Clee for this shot, watching as an ethereal scene unfolded beneath me.

YouTube video by dougaqua ‘Once In A Lifetime’ from David Byrne’s (Talking Heads) “American Utopia” on Broadway 05OCT19

And then, one day, David Byrne of Talking Heads was finally old enough to pull off the Crazy Evangelical Preacher look...

youtu.be/ENi4rkh2YmY?...

Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.

Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats posed by #climate and #nature breakdown - and the enormous opportunities if we take urgent action.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

The conversation on Threads

It’s time for a seasonal ritual, The Hogfather…

I know it’s very late but I have made my Christmas puddings today, an unsurpassable recipe by @nigelslater.bsky.social 😊

This year’s attempt at a wreath

Maybe a bit over the top?

This year’s decorations have been fun!

During the #Bradford Council meeting on Dec 9, the local Conservatives proposed to cut Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in the district. Green Councillor Matt Edwards (@greenmattbfd.bsky.social) had this brilliant reply:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.

The Reason Your Shampoo Wants You to Use More Shampoo is Because That Means You Will Buy More of Your Shampoo An extract from my upcoming third novel, Everything Will Swallow You

... And here's another extract, in case you want to try to gauge more thoroughly whether or not you'll hate it: www.tom-cox.com/the-reason-y...

The first edition hardback of Everything Will Swallow You that I’m giving away

Original linocuts by my mum, Jo, who also contributed illustrations to the inside of the book. The winner gets to pick which one of these they want

This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts

You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..

A somewhat psychedelic linocut of a hare

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

A map of the new future regions of Britain, including 'Wolves' and Wild Golf'.

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.

It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

It seems the Guardian Fantasy House Hunt agrees!

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Grand Old Duke of York" - parody of English nursery rhyme by the Marsh Family on Prince Andrew

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔

youtu.be/hoETmTJM014

‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have just signed this.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Oops 😢

Well done! 🎉

So beautiful 🤩

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U

It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

😂

I really miss the Manchester trams.