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Wrexham mums chuntering in vaped agreement that there's no point taking the kids to Banana Ben's when they just as much play value swinging from the tubular steel of the fire escape at the side of B&M.

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge It’s a ‘can-do’ object lesson for the Treasury. And imagine what such ambition could do for the fortunes of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, says author Jonn Elledge

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge

Letter of the day (in the Times)

This image is an advertisement for Plain York chocolate featuring a cartoon of a man in a top hat, sitting on a fence with a walking stick, accompanied by a poem about enjoying Plain York on a walk. The ad promotes the chocolate as the perfect treat for an outdoor lunch. Plain York I'm Plain Mr. York, of York, Yorks, A good comrade for rambles For our alfresco lunch We'll contentedly munch A big cake of Plain York, or walks, from York, Yorks. ASK AT THE SHOP FOR ROWNTREE'S NEWEST EATING CHOCOLATE In 6d. cakes; also lb. 1/-, 1 lb. 2/- and in 3d., 6d., & 1/- "Nap" packets and 2d. bars.

Aug 1926: Plain York ad from Rowntree's

«Plain York»

#HollywoodSecretProject day 42/62: draft to 42100 (1100 words today).

You'd create a nonce singularity.

Don't think I've seen her in anything else, but she makes an impression. Hope she's doing dandy.

Natalya Rudakova!

Post an iconic duo.

Done.

#HollywoodSecretProject day 41/62: draft to 41000 (1000 words today).

Jenrick unlawfully reversed a £1bn planning decision on behalf of Richard Desmond, so that must have benefitted his daughter. Not in kickbacks of course, but in terms of increasing the housing supply so Young Jenrick might have a better chance of owning their own home in future. Heroic, really.

Glad you liked it!

#HollywoodSecretProject day 40/62: draft to 40000 words (1000 words today).

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b... The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

Strong read this morning in the Observer on the collapse of Unbound, featuring @alexdecampi.bsky.social, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and myself.

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

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RZA in the Criterion closet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOv...

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Paperback copy of Christopher Wood's "James Bond and Moonraker."

Paperback copy of Christopher Wood's "James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me."

Roderick Thorp (Nothing Lasts Forever) and Walter Wager (58 Minutes) respectively.

The Thorp novel is a sequel to The Detective, filmed with Frank Sinatra in the lead role, which makes Die Hard a kinda sequel to an Ol Blue Eyes flick.

Christopher Wood wrote novelisations of his screenplays to Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, not that either flick shares much with the source material.

James V Hart did something similar with the Francis Ford Coppola early 90s Dracula.

Smiling man in space suit

Jim Lovell, the Commander of Apollo 13, has died. Four times in space. A reminder of a time before the billionaires.

#HollywoodSecretProject day 39/62: draft to 39000 words (1200 words today).

Oh blimey. They come over here, snaffling our tubers....

Ministry of Agriculture poster (date uncertain) warning about the colorado beetle, a "dangerous foreign potato pest". Image source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co233464/the-colorado-beetle

We were forever being told about making notes of if/when you saw one, and if possible get a sample and pop it into a matchbox for the Ministry of Agriculture to analyse.

As a 70s rural kid the ladybirds made a change from the omnipresent threat of colorado beetle.

Graham Joyce's novel The Year of the Ladybird is a good 'un - a ghost story set in the long hot summer of '76

"I found my thrill /
On bbbbblllllllllllllllllllllllluebbbberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry hill"

Sarah Connor's nuclear dream sequence, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Ah, Jim loves a nuke. Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies. Three detonations and one sweaty threat.

What's your sign?

#HollywoodSecretProject day 38/62: draft to 37800 words (1300 words today).