The Footloose Moose and his chaotic wandering. If only there were more news stories like this... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Extreme weather and extreme politics go hand in hand - billionaires like Musk are pushing both

Chrissie Hynde is selling her lime-green 1971 Pontiac Firebird LeMans T-37. It's a beaut. bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/...

Marigold Murder Club (Caroline Collett)

Love it when sports tournaments birth a bona fide star. The women's rugby world cup (so entertaining) has done just that with the Black Ferns' Braxton Sorensen-McGee. Not only does the 18 yo have the best name, but is SO exciting to watch as a player! Kiwis now out - so till the next time!

Friday tune Link Wray - Rumble And the weekend (and the story of The Cramps) starts here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCp...

Thank you @andrewmale.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. Ian Penman was one of my favourite music writers of my yoof. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

From the Arab Spring to the Asian Autumn.... Social media can also be a force for positive change. Go go Gen Z! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Morning all. Manorhamilton sheep fair. County Leitrim, Ireland October 1980. Photographer Martin Parr

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

Congratulations to Sadie Frost for directing this - a really good watch and so unbelievably nice to see some different footage from the 60s. The clip of Twigs and Bryan Ferry, both in school uniform, singing 'Wonderful World' is HILARIOUS - more, more! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Book 21 / 2025 Deborah Levy - The Position of Spoons A beautiful and hugely enjoyable collection of essays, musings and ruminations on women and creativity - particularly women writers. I now have a brand new book shopping list of new discoveries. Aargh!

Стук Бамбука В XI Часов - Мёд Снег [Russia, ambient/industrial] (1991) https://redd.it/62cxr5 https://youtu.be/zYk8Ln3Bs0U

Didn't do a Friday tune, so this will have to be a Sunday toon instead! Haven't listened to David Byrne or Talking Heads for years, but I LOVE DB's new single - sounds like the follow-up to 'Psycho Killer' - jarring and insistent... David Byrne - The Avant Garde www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97d...

Rock chicks through the ages... My beloved mother-in-law (now 80) talks MCR in the 60s with Paul of 'Manchester Scene Stories' earlier today - Stones, Who, Chet Baker, James Brown, Herman's Hermits, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Bob Dylan, George Best... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlxX...

It takes a sports writer to cut through the noise of politics. What a superb article on the rise of racism / fascism in the UK by @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hackney tells it like it is….

By ‘eck, that train looks fun! Also - Engels traffic lights, even if associated with the colour green rather than red… From the always readable @davehaslam.bsky.social Substack - davehaslam.substack.com

Friday tune Rowland S.Howard and Lydia Lunch - Some Velvet Morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqV...

Moth Against Ribbed Glass (Caroline Collett)

Waiting for the bus. #streetphotography #candid

"th analog allure of photographers' contact sheets a rare glimpse inside th archive of th new york times showcases th decisions + hesitations that go into pressing th shutter..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a... [i still have mine from uni years] cc : @jonbuscall.bsky.social

Anti-Nazi demo, West Bromwich, 1979 📷 Virginia Turbett

Last night DEVO, tonight Dexy's... Kevin Rowland is a genius. First saw him live 45 years ago now. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Friday tune Got to stick with the programme... DEVO - Beautiful World THE WAY THEY COMB THEIR HAIR! www.youtube.com/watch?v=56u6...

Now on Netlix - a documentary that renews my love for this band, who only seem to get cleverer, funnier and more seditious (and on the money) with time - www.netflix.com/gb/title/820...

Happiness is many things, but one of them is definitely cooking up cod, chorizo and sundried tomato skewers along with a finely-chopped fennel and dill salad, whilst singing along to this at full volume... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpX...

The ghastly women dance with each other in their slippers.

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

The Grey Organisation's preparatory studies for the sleeve of De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, 1989. Currently on show as part of the Flowers exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery

This has genuinely helped me, given just how outrageously large my TBR pile is!

POΞTRY HAPPΞNING: Happy 73rd birthday to Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ (August 24, 1952) ❝I don't know how to change the world. But I do know that the only thing that has ever changed this world is people.❞

If your book club is #Reading my book 'Drystone – A Life Rebuilt', I’d be glad to join you online for an hour’s Q&A. No fee, just a chance to talk about the book and your questions. If this is something that would work for your club, drop me a message/email. #UK #Books #Scotland #Writing #Author

grasses, rabbits and a fox, we trek to cocktails pondside

Friday tune ...And in Every Home - Elvis Costello From the wonderful 'Imperial Bedroom' www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEkN...

This photo, taken in a French bric-a-brac store, was already creepy enough with the (live) cat's tail and taxidermied lamb - and that was before I spotted the giant spider in the top right. Stuff of nightmares!

Dead End (Caroline Collett)

Gleeking hedge-born dewberry or Qualling onion-eyed mammet?

The cliffs beyond Geevor tin mine in Cornwall, stained blue from copper residues left behind from when the mine was active #thingsofbeauty

Jacqueline Taïeb - Le Coeur Au Bout Des Doigts (France, Chanson) [1967] https://redd.it/1mbnjxp https://youtu.be/uQVOTbZYyXo

The Shangri-Las, 1966 📷 David Dalton

1978, The Coventry Automatics

Got round to getting my website updated with recent images placed or exhibited or whatever - and a few more besides. Let me know what you like best! www.carolinecollettwriter.com/images

Friday tune Feeling like an acid cut to slice away the working week Suicide - Rocket USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7K...

Got round to getting my website updated with recent images placed or exhibited or whatever - and a few more besides. Let me know what you like best! www.carolinecollettwriter.com/images

Friday tune The Shangri-Las - I Can Never Go Home Anymore Having a bizarre listening phase of just miserable old men (Cash, Cave, The National) and melodramatic women (Lana Del Ray, The Shangris). Anyway, here you go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdr...

Green, green, electric green (Caroline Collett)

Don and Kev on their way to an all-nighter youtu.be/IBE-hdg9a-o?...