Craig Baxter
@craignbaxter.bsky.social
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BAGA-award-winning playwright, dreamer, fully competent
I had my first dream about Campus (which is an academic journal article tracking system). It was quite a dull dream actually
14 days ago
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Dream i’m washing up the dishes but in a sink that has four plugholes!
24 days ago
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It occurred to me during a Zoom call today that these days I look like John Nott in 1982 when he walked out of the tv studio after Robin Day called him a “here today, gone tomorrow politician”. It’s a good look!
about 1 month ago
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Henry V part V (on stage directions)
about 1 month ago
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I just read a whole chapter of a James Bond novel and it was just him talking to a young woman and she was telling him about her tough childhood and stuff. It was nice
about 1 month ago
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Hard frost makes it an excellent day for collecting (nicely frozen) cat turds from the lawn. Same hard frost makes it a less excellent day for burying them
about 1 month ago
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I am the fattest, oldest, weakest, slowest, ugliest man in the gym. But also the best
about 1 month ago
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Dream/subconscious me has a sense of humour I hope you’ll agree: Dreamed I was controlling a drone helicopter in a corridor and got it to grip my cheek. Next I made a dramatic entry into a party and asked the gathered throng: “Do I have something on my face?” Hilarious!
about 1 month ago
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Dream I’m staying with a delightful German family but the passcode for their WiFi is so impossibly long that I feel my life is slipping away from me and I have to leave
about 1 month ago
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Dreamed my friend Steve dropped by to say goodbye (he’s going away) and show us the new dapper sleeveless coat he’d bought for £1 but I was quickly aware he wanted to spend a more lingering goodbye with our mutual friend Clare and that I should leave them to it
about 2 months ago
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Dream we are drinking our own urine in bed and it tastes of “mortgages”
about 2 months ago
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Is it insulting or a misogynistic micro-aggression to, as a chap, thank a lady for being a “gentleman” for holding a door open for you? I just did this and am now steeped in a vague feeling of shame and regret.
2 months ago
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Dream I’m retrieving a retiring police officer’s bicycle from Cambridge railway station lost property 30 years after he left it there (after passing his probation and qualifying for a police car). We roll back the tarpaulin but there’s no bike. Only a broken, stringless bass guitar
2 months ago
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Henry V Part 4 - A crossing: looking fore and aft
Flourish.
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigbaxter/p/henry-v-part-4-a-crossing-looking?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=1m8ono&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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Dream I’m sticking together with tape and glue the first half of my long poem. My plan (I’m excited) is to send it to Faber & Faber. Then I glance at the first lines and realise they are not good (or even poetry). I fold up my mess of scribbled over paper and tape and stuff it away in a drawer
3 months ago
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I never enjoy those dreams in which a man goes wild with a machete in a shopping centre. Anyway I had one of those and could not get back to sleep. The subconscious me is not one of those have-a-go heroes but rather a terrified runner away. I suspect the conscious me would be similar
3 months ago
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I dreamed I overheard a conversation between one of my bosses and their therapist in which they broke down in tears while expressing their overwhelming concern that they were letting me and the rest of the team down (moral: we must be more sympathetic to bosses; they have a tough job)
3 months ago
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I almost went to the gym today
3 months ago
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Back in with an “I’m driving and I can’t even drive” dream; I enter a white car through an opening in the roof (a ripped out sunroof); I’m having to drive it in dressing gown and ill-fitting slippers, avoiding numerous drifting pedestrians also in white dressing gowns and with towels on their heads
3 months ago
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I wasn’t sure whether I should or, if I did, how I should describe my dream in which I’m bleeding from my arsehole but, anyway, I’ve done it now
3 months ago
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These are probably all Christmas shopping anxiety dreams but in another I was struggling to unlock my bicycle from outside a Chinese supermarket which had just been robbed and trashed. The staff and investigating police officers were very smiley and relaxed considering
3 months ago
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Dreamed I found myself in a sewing shop (I had been looking for groceries). A camera team wanted me to - as a rare male in the shop - appear in the publicity shots they were taking. They told me I had a very “warm” persona, in contrast with the rather frosty… 1/2
3 months ago
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Irritating to sit through a bunch of adverts in the cinema this evening all trying to convince us that if we buy their Christmas shit it will lead inevitably to us making an affectionate connection with the members of our family.
3 months ago
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I’ve dreamed about Margaret Thatcher and George Osborne previously but my subconscious lurched even further to the right last night with the first appearance in my dreams of Nigel Farage. He and I were playing nicely together in a Lego play pit with a bunch of primary school children.
3 months ago
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Dreamed someone (can’t remember who) asked me why I wore deodorant. I replied it was just force of habit and I’d been doing it since 1974. My friend Ken defended me saying he thought there was nothing wrong with that
4 months ago
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Dreamed I attempted to release a geneticist from our local mental institution (I had been partially responsible years ago for his sectioning). Unfortunately I scraped the car in the institution’s car park and had to abort the operation
4 months ago
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I wrote another one: Henry V part 2
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Henry V Part 2
Enter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely.
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigbaxter/p/henry-v-part-2?r=1m8ono&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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I renounce my humanity
4 months ago
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I renounce my age (60), generation (X) and my star sign (Taurus the bull)
4 months ago
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I renounce my introversion and anxiety
4 months ago
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I renounce all my musical tribes and loose affiliations (heavy rockers, proggers, post-punks, New Romantics, fey indie boys, grungers, disco divas, math rockers, art poppers, minimalists, atonalists, etc)
4 months ago
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I renounce my nationality. It was an accident of birth and not even my accident
4 months ago
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I renounce the football team I supported as a child (who incidentally are winning 4-0 against Athletico Madrid in the Champions League as I type)
4 months ago
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I renounce my education, including my academic and professional qualifications: degrees, A and O levels, basic Lotus 1-2-3, grade 3 oboe
4 months ago
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(Alexander Douglas says “Love is the opposite of identity”)
4 months ago
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I renounce my identity as a heterosexual
4 months ago
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For a start I renounce my race and “white” ethnicity (both unhelpful social constructs for modern living)
4 months ago
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All next week I will be renouncing aspects of my identity
4 months ago
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I dreamed my first golf anxiety dream of repeatedly trying and failing to “tee-off” (technical term). My dream golfing partner (Paul) had green balls. Later, in real life my golfing partner (also Paul) played with a green ball. At one point he thought we’d lost it but he hadn’t. Well played Paul!
4 months ago
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I dreamed about a lovely baby sleeping peacefully on my bed.
4 months ago
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Dream I attend an acting class and am paired up with Jodie Foster for an exercise in which we are instructed to “giggle like girls”. Jodie is, as you might expect, brilliant, but also a real delight to work with
5 months ago
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Exciting news: Substack have been in touch to inform me that 16 people have viewed my post and none of them liked it
5 months ago
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I’ve written a Substack post Henry V Part 1
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Henry V Part 1
Driving around England recently, and witnessing the resurgence of flag-hanging from motorway bridges and lampposts, and the re-facing of mini roundabout hubs in the name of Saint George and Union Jack...
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigbaxter/p/henry-v-part-1?r=1m8ono&utm_medium=ios
5 months ago
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Dream I am in Wales and get chatting in the chip shop with someone who turns out to be a holidaying GP. I mention my high blood pressure and he recommends “lying standing” (to manage not necessarily cure it)
5 months ago
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I dreamed I git an MA from Cambridge University
5 months ago
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reposted by
Craig Baxter
Joseph Millson
6 months ago
OUT NOW!
bulldog-film.com/films/signs-...
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I was complemented on my sadness today
6 months ago
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Knows his onions
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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reposted by
Craig Baxter
Joseph Millson
6 months ago
Great review for Signs Of Life by Mark Kermode (listen at 58.30)
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...
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HONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS
Podcast Episode · Kermode & Mayo’s Take · 04/09/2025 · 1h 5m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/kermode-mayos-take/id1616559297?i=1000724994556
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I woke up crying
6 months ago
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