CUTS AND GRAZES FOR ALL THE FAMILY! (via @scissorkicks.bsky.social)

Sad to hear one half of the lovely Blancmange has left us.

I worked very hard on this, love for you all to give it a listen, especially if you're not familiar with the podcast. There's some famous people on there too, media hounds!

Would you like to come on our podcast and talk about what you love about Philip Larkin's work? It could be a favourite poem, novel, letter, review or article. Or one of his contemporaries - Amis, Pym, Lawrence, Jennings, Frost for example? We're looking for new guests, so do get in touch.

Larkin At Christmas youtu.be/k4YWtBnm7pQ?...

If you are cold, they are cold, bring your demons inside

Winter! ❄️ “Trade card for The Bufford’s Sons Lith. Co., Boston, Mass., 1887” www.historicnewengland.org/explore/coll...

Meeting the amazing @kidcongopowers.bsky.social in Manchester on Friday. Such happy memories of listening to the Cramps and the Bad Seeds in the 80s and here we are years later. Thank you to @wholehogg.bsky.social

Sheffield view from Longley Park to the east.

Great show by Stephen Brotherstone and Bob Fischer this week, with lots of talk of public information films and The Wicker Man #ScarredForLife

Yes all this, and paintings of Highland cattle on the walls.

The Philip Larkin Society journal has dropped through my door this week. It features a whole range of Larkinesque delights, including an article by the great David Quantick.

Have a listen

Sheffield looking magical again this morning.

If you fancy reading a really fantastic short story by a new young writer then I recommend this, winner of the 4th Write story award. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Anyone got any views on this 1950s English novel they want to share,?

Great view from our hotel in Kings Cross. All the clouds are funneling down into the British Library, as they should.

If only it had been, though!

We took the dog for a walk in the cemetery this morning a bit earlier than usual so it was dark and silent. She refused to leave our side. Is now sleeping it off.

This would make a great Christmas card

I love this crazy looking communication tower up the road from me in Sheffield. It looks down on us all.

Just watched this excellent - but stomach churning- Welsh folk horror film on BFI Player ffilmcymruwales.com/our-work/gwl...

That famous Boxing Day curry flavour (and why put capital letters on Potato Crisps but not on Boxing Day?). Seen in Home Bargains. Not purchased.

Really looking forward to reading this. They came across as such interesting, warm and intelligent women on #Witch on Radio 4.

Note to commuters traveling in the living room area outside the kitchen: delays may occur due to a… spill. Teams have been dispatched but the exact nature of the fluffy white substance is unknown so we cannot give a time estimate for cleanup.

Who wouldn't want to go to Ray-Mond's GHOST SHOW?

Lovely choice

It's #NationalPoetryDay. As is traditional on other social media platforms I repost without comment the early draft of This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin, discovered in an old copy of Razzle.

Cat reach

Plan on doing something productive? Don't do that! Look up which words were "born" the same year as you! www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

Will probably be posting stuff about Philip Larkin, getting old, the dog etc. Not going to change anyone's world, I shouldn't think.

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends..." Philip Larkin