Coates is Odd This Day

Blimey. Robbed a cathedral?

Hahahaha

Actually, yes. Good point on the taxidermy

Yes! Extraordinary. Although why just stick it on a mannequin when you can wear it to breakfast?

Yes, I think that covers it

Hahahaha

Yes! No half measures

Oh yes

Nah, keep it, I say

Yes, it's absolutely coherent as a style. They weren't half-arsed

Yes, and yes

Not as spectacular, true

They went for it, and it's coherent, I'll give them that

Um... @heawood.bsky.social - you like property listings, don't you?

Yes (to both points). Admirable. In its way

A fever dream of a house

Check out this 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale on Rightmove 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Manor Court Road, Nuneaton, CV11 for £320,000. Marketed by Carters Estate Agents, Nuneaton

Good

Lord

Haha, excellent

"Well, after The Incident..."

[They exchange glances. Nothing further is said.]

I hadn’t thought of that. Always imagined them being unchanging, but I guess they do have to be dusted…

The Girls by John Bowen — McNALLY EDITIONS John Bowen A wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal). 

Ha! How weird. Thinking of books in the US, though, this British 1980s novel has been reissued over there but not here, and is wonderfully odd. If you like Comyns and Sylvia TW, it may appeal

Reading Andrew Miller’s ‘The Crossing’. Lead character Maud is at the posh boyfriend’s family home: “On the piano, the photographs are arranged in tilted rows like a solar farm.”

It’s full of precise, authentic details like that, and I’ve rattled through two thirds of it in a couple of days

Oh, yes! She’s also fabulous, of course. Can recommend Lolly Willowes (her first) if you haven’t already read it

YouTube video by Pitch Meeting Love Actually Pitch Meeting

I do not get it.
I do not trust anyone who says they like this film.

Saying it's your favourite Christmas film is like saying New York Ripper is your favourite Donald Duck film.

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Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, and Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - all really good. ‘Spoons’ is semi-autobiographical, so has a different feel to the others, but they all have that ability of hers to cover quite dark subjects with an almost flippant tone. I loved them all!

I’ve read three of hers this year, having only discovered her in January, but not that one. Now I know where to head next…

Fair point. There was some groaning

Screenshot of the phrase “Trump, a Republican, …”

This felt like a remarkable bit to me

Blimey. I’m so glad I didn’t have to do that, either as a child or a parent