Justine Crow

Tomatoes in lllinois is also the title of a book I hope to sell one day, possibly short stories but always thoughtful with no blood or twists. Just a quiet tale that blushes to a conclusion

How can you tell?

Thankyou comrade x

Thanks John. Only just venturing back out of the cave.

He ran the Pan Bookshop for several years but as a friend of and a reader for Sonny Mehta, he was often ‘upstairs’

15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language. How we use it, how we weaponise it, and what happens when we rely on other to define ourselves. ...

If you're in Liverpool next month and fancy hearing me think out loud then please come along to the launch of THE DEFINITIONS. I'm occasionally cogent and, if you get me on the right topic, borderline interesting, and there'll be wine, good people and great books. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...

13 Aug 1942 // Two former French drifters in #RoyalNavy service, Pierre Descelliers and Intrepide, were bombed and sunk at Salcombe, Devon, in an air raid. Three men on the Pierre Descelliers were killed, along with a local woman who had come aboard from her boat to deliver water. #WW2

Still traumatised. What a waste of nerves. Didn’t even mind getting 2 tinnies confiscated for being over the limit once finally in as the release was so damn sweet.

Therapist: …like right now, what’s in your head

(don’t say it, don’t say it)

Me: Zombie

GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter? How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.

Not everyone is impressed with the latest Chat-GPT update
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...

Placcy glass on a car aerial

And a good time was had by all

This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too ***

On the morning of July 31, Israeli military forces, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived at the site of one of the two propagation units of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in the West Bank city of Hebron.

They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Kinnell

I’m a thicko and my only talent is passivity (oh, and freestyle egg poaching) but it thrills me. I think the answer is MORE Proms stuff for us to watch. Way more. Hours of it. And all of it. Hundreds.

Also, 38 MILLION

Nah, you’re alright.

Fgs Nick

I am up at @edfringe again and I will be administering the prestigious 🥄Accoladles🥄 once more.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.

Hell yeah

“Down at yer local nick… He’ll ring you back..”

The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.

People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.

Hear, hear!

A man's been charged with rape. Speculation could collapse the case

We published the story in a measured and unsensational way because we take our responsibility towards contempt very seriously as publishers

Absolute boiling point here at the Craft & Courage Crystal Palace before bookgroup. So boiling that we need another pint. If I could get off my bum that is.

Woah. Walton #proms

A teddy bear has been found dismembered on Norman Road.

Under a local bylaw, the "disfigurement of any bear image or idol" is a treasonous offence in Bearwood and anyone found guilty of this will be "detained in the water tower".

Bearwood Special Forces have been dispatched.

When I’m old I may - Alec Guinness style - take up smoking again. Doesn’t scan tho

They did an even better job than the Luftwaffe

I shall make them last. A tomato a day from the bunker