We’ve been sagging sumptuously for a while

It’s gratifying to know someone out there watches to the end

Cummings Your Way heads back to Shrewsbury, in a new short film that has been inexplicably banned in Russia and Belarus*. Watch it to see if you can work out why youtu.be/nd_c0-iXcs4?... *True

We keep going for kind souls such as yourself

🚨 NEW Cummings Your Way 🚨 Join Dan and Lee as they rekindle pinbright days of flailing terribly in #Claverley before revisiting #Bridgnorth in the fragile light of a February afternoon to consider the manifold reasons for handsomeness of a "pretty good looking town." 🕰️ @cummingsyourway.bsky.social

Spread the word around, Guess who's back in town...

Yes, we’ve been here before, in a film that did very well for us a long time ago, but was rubbish. So we went back, and assessed the CYW years in between. It might sound like a valedictory episode, but it’s not…

It’s been a tough couple of years to get new films completed, but the gigantic machinery behind the CYW entertainment-industrial complex is cranking back into gear. Here’s a new one, in the delightful Shropshire town of Bridgnorth. youtu.be/9RVah3nkwdY?...

Seems like a good opportunity to confirm that we’re not dead, or even that decrepit, and have quite a few new films on the way if the editor manages to pull his finger out

A tragedy

Where am we?

No amount of wishing the novel-reading man would just disappear will make it come true, and fuck off while you’re doing it.

Shrewsbury

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Anyone for a prophetic novel about Russian meddling, the self-immolation of the left wing, the seeming impossibility of a true socialist government in the UK, and Alexander Armstrong making a turnip of himself by publicly moaning about how hard done by he is?

Out and about today

Here’s the CYW Birmingham Quadrilogy, starting with our most recent film in Bournville youtu.be/RgtRfpqWo6E?...

Another CYW Blue Sky exclusive: allow us to take you to Bournville - another Birmingham gem. youtu.be/RgtRfpqWo6E?... #bournville #birmingham

Another CYW Blue Sky exclusive: allow us to take you to Bournville - another Birmingham gem. youtu.be/RgtRfpqWo6E?... #bournville #birmingham

It would be a terrible shame to see this go, a place that has strong associations with Mr Cummings Senior who served as Head of the School of Art. We’ve always thought this was a fine example of Brutalism. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Our latest, in the sublime Shropshire Hills, taking in Church Stretton, Carding Mill Valley, Bishop’s Castle and Clun youtu.be/MY1dmNVsBYU?...

There is such a place, deep in the Black Country. But you can only find out about it via word of mouth.

We’re Marc Petty fans

It’s a Blue Sky exclusive - a new episode of Cummings Your Way, in the Shropshire Hills. Join us for some cosmic English exploration in Church Stretton, Bishop’s Castle and Clun youtu.be/MY1dmNVsBYU?...

Here’s one of our favourites - at the Forest of Dean to consider the works of Dennis Potter youtu.be/UhcSKGmvcRQ?...

We had high hopes for aggressively promoting the CYW oeuvre on this lovely new platform, but of course haven’t got round to it. Allow us to throw this out. We think it’s great if you can manage to get past the ill-advised opening scene youtu.be/gdCkhGDNxEY?... #digbeth #birmingham

I wrote a piece for @wearebookanista.bsky.social on Black Country noir and the publication of 'Lie of the Land' by @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/black-countr...

Sunshine. Blue skies. Dreamy English summer days. None of those are outside your window right now, but they do feature in this splendid instalment of Cummings Your Way in Bury St Edmunds youtu.be/5qYS7SW3fIQ?...

Tenbury Wells is a remarkable town of architectural significance. It’s deeply sad to find it on the front line of climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ross On Wye youtu.be/hP_P3xHnE4o?...

Hay on Wye youtu.be/a-B7TZ2BFxk?...

Dan Rhodes made the best recommendations over on the other place, and we cant see that changing over here

Two years ago we made a film with @plsoc.bsky.social about Philip Larkin’s link with the West Midlands. Here’s part 1, focussing on Wellington and Lichfield youtu.be/T6GLE5UXYa0?...

Here’s a recent-ish example of what we do, for our anticipated new massive audience that is in no way a small echo chamber cleaved from Twitter youtu.be/-qemC8nJQEE?...

This is reminiscent of swapping between vinyl and CDs in the early 90s, and trying to work out if your quality of experience is going to be replicable

Good to be part of the great X exodus of November 2024. Hello fellow travellers.