My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

It's a crone's world.

www.gyroscopereview.org This is a cracker and I am honoured to be a crone. #Poetry 📚 💙 #BookSky

this is how it feels to wear high rise pants

My brain in autumn

Found the gate that leads to winter.

I didn’t want to answer any reasonable questions.

I am not up to going to this which is a BORE, but it will be a great afternoon with some cracking poetry, do head along and make Jack happy xxx

Join the mission to Venus to investigate the origins of an alien artefact! 🚀 #YokoTani #OldrichLukes #IgnacyMachowski in FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1960) 12noon sci-fi adventure #TPTVsubtitles

Saw this in August and it was a joy

Autumn skies fill with honking Pink-footed Geese - kicking off our #AutumnArrivalSpotlight series! 🍂 As they return from Iceland and Greenland to grace our wetlands, who’s spotted their signature V-formation?

A long day, a high tide

Daughter & I have made 4 small museum kits for mental health-beautiful vintage tins containing tiny printers’ tray-like storage compartments, a collection of precious items with hand-written list of what they are,plus a booklet I’m writing about how collecting improves mental health. On Etsy soon...

My suspicion is that the Rapture happened ages ago and noone at all got uppened.

Subtle. All the action is on the back cover - when you buy the book you'll see what I mean. #BookSky @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social #ShortStories #NotWavingButDrowning

I need a new notebook. All these others must be broken but I bet if I got a new one it would fix me.

I'm very excited to be reading this Thursday (18th) September at #Blackwell's in Newcastle with the awesome @corrintachibana.bsky.social and @marymulholland.bsky.social - it's free and there will be wine, so come if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

Same

...or, as my spouse calls this place..."how no"

POND WATER (a text from my mum, that I have turned into a poem) Bridget was round my neck All night I thought It was affection But I see from the weather That she was just Sucking the warmth from me She smelled Just like pond water We have the plumber Coming To fit a new shower

An AI made Peaky Blinders highland cow. I can’t decide what I hate most about it so I’ve set the building on fire.

Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me messages about Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal - it means so much to me uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...

Someone just told me that The Princess Bride is "overrated" and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life.

One of the sexiest things in the world right now is my husband applying Deep Heat to the bit of my back I can't reach.

Tickets for tomorrow’s gig in NEWCASTLE www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

He sleeps #Cat

Oh HELL yes

Fun facts and definitions: - a BOG is a wetland that is acidic - a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline - a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees - a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees Now you know!

Wikipedia entry/life goals

Love walking around with the mental age of 36 and then catching my reflection.

Just sorting out some orders and I’m reminded what Pedro Pascal said, “I really like Graeme’s prints and I think you should buy some, oh and don’t bother looking this quote up. I definitely said it” marswasrubbish.etsy.com

You can't buy hope, but you can buy a new notebook and that's basically the same thing

At the moment, I'm regrettably not exploring a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

I love this, but end up watching the hair as much as the instruments. So fluffy.

Breakfast now or I lick your eyeball. #ProofofCat #Cat #ForgotToShutTheBedroomDoorLastNight

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

TREASURESTREASURESTREASURES from #BarterBooks , #TomCox #LouisTheroux and best of all @marthawells.com what a splendidly minimalist autograph :)

Muchly sky #Northumbria #Lindisfarne

The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment

Apples are swollen. Blackberries sugaring. Hedgerows a riot of haws and hips. The wood's shadows speak again of the Hoarse Hag walking. Our lungs begin to fill with the incense of autumn. The year turns. We harvest the magics of today against tomorrow's ice. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today. You’re welcome.

Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really

Silliness which popped into my head while cycling along the River Stort towpath yesterday. Like many I do like the edge of things. It’s not a romantic magic though, the edge is not the edge to those living there. (posted yesterday, but didn’t like using a meme. Today I’m not so fussy)

I'm very grateful to be in the good company of The Candyman's Trumpet (@dreich.bsky.social) issue no. 3 poets, out today. Thank you to Jack Caradoc for including my piece. I hope many more people will subscribe to this free journal – its openness to different styles of writing is exemplary.