No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can you name that tune? Check my timeline if you need a clue… #drumquiz

Take a moment to read Michael Rosen 🙏

Donald Trump has been wronged by Harvard university. His accountants and lawyers have spent time working out how much money it has cost him. They’ve worked really hard, and have got it down to an exact figure, rounded to the nearest $1000. So he is sueing them for…

I've just been reminded* that I have a web site for my novels! I'd quite forgotten! www.chrisbudd.co.uk *Been sent an invoice for the hosting of

Today's toddler dancing is a little girl strutting her stuff to Rope-A-Dope by The New Mastersounds #sellingvinyl

A young lady buys a copy of Simply Red's Stars. She explains that it is for her boyfriend, because his godfather was in Simply Red and passed away last year. #sellingvinyl

A young fella, who is a regular, is wearing the same Stetson cap as me. We discuss a love of Scott Walker, and he buys Neil Young. My daughter, who is working the stall with me, says he is me from the past #sellingvinyl

A young lady is looking for Fleetwood Mac albums, particularly the one with Silver Springs on. Confused, I look this up - it was the b-side to Go Your Own Way. She sends me a clip of Stevie Nicks singing it AT Lindsey Buckingham. Wow! youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s?...

I'm at Tobacco Factory market #sellingvinyl today. Looking forward to some great music chats and stories from punters. Best day would be if someone sold ME some records, I will be honest!!

Watching The Thursday Murder Club. Snappy dialogue, interesting characters, realistic setting, intriguing plot. Any of those would be nice.

@northamptonian.bsky.social Thanks for sharing, James. Loved that.

I seem to have something in my eye. Blimey.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I am sitting in my conservatory having my breakfast while watching the long tailed tits at my bird feeders having theirs. Two squirrels run across the back fence and over to my neighbours' gardens. The soundtrack is Plight & Premonition by Sylvian and Czukay.

The latest Financial Wellbeing Podcast (ep 124) is now available. I chat with the incomparable (and lovely) Daniel Crosby, behavioural finance expert, about issues such as how our emotional stories affect our financial decisions. #financialwellbeing ovationfinance.co.uk/podcasts/epi...

A straight out lie from Danny Kruger MP at Reform's event today. He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list. In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing. Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...

Rain has arrived. Luckily, I'm under a tent. The more discerning punters decide to wait out the showers while browsing through my stock and enjoying the New Mastersounds album I'm playing. Party time! #sellingvinyl

Chao is browsing wearing a cap that says 'Independent Tropical Wales'. We discuss which one we think is going to happen first #sellingvinyl

Anyone? Anyone? (Apart from @beershevakid.bsky.social who already got it). So... Anyone else? Anyone else?

Nice chat with a young chap as he browses. Asks me if this is my personal collection. As if I'd sell that! I explain that I buy a collection, and if there's any I don't have, I keep them. He says that he loves classic cars, so maybe one day he'll do the same with them! #sellingvinyl

I'm at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market today. Come and say hi! Or sell me your record collection. Or both! #sellingvinyl

“England my country, the home of the free. Such miserable weather.” #appropriatelyrics #namethattune

Presumably this will mean Trump will drop the case against the BBC... #yeahright

Sounds around us

I think Betty Boo’s Boomania is about as perfect a pop album as it is possible to make. There, I’ve said it.

Looking for a good quote from this for illustrative purposes, but sadly the whole damn thing is full of bangers.

I play Words With Friends. There's an ad on there for Apple Music. If you click on the little cross, which should close ads after a period, it instead takes you to the app store. There seems to be no way out of this loop. Do they really think this is going to make me more likely to buy?!

A really joyful day #sellingvinyl today. One of the best things I've done is to pursue my hobby of loving and collecting music, and sharing it with others. Fellow stall holders, customers, the organisers - everyone contributes to a really fulfilling experience.

I’m #sellingvinyl at Tobacco Factory market today. I have a clearance box of 80s albums, £5 each. A young chap in his twenties indignantly asks why I am selling albums from the 80s so cheap

*runs around screaming, high-fives ALL THE INDIE BOOKSHOPS*

I'm playing Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas. A fellow stallholder comes over and says "I've got a present for you!". #sellingvinyl

A couple of lads, wrapped up against the cold, slowly browse through my stock. We get chatting, and it turns out they have a burst pipe in their flat and they are killing time waiting for the plumber to arrive. #sellingvinyl

I'm at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market market today. It's bloomin' cold! So come and say hi. AND some big news - I've got an Insta account! (Well, I will in a moment when my daughter has set it up!). Please follow me there Spacecowboyvinyls #sellingvinyl

So Donald Trump, what first attracted you to the oil rich country of Venezuela?

I have today invented the term of ‘Christmas Decorations Residue’. It’s the string of lights not taken out of the downstairs toilet. The little robin that stays on the mantlepiece. The stuff that moves from Christmas decorations to just decoration.

Blinkist advert telling me I can have Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman summarised in 15 minutes #irony

Just (finally!) finished reading Anna Karenina. The final message - that the value of life is in the goodness one puts into it - is a wonderful way to finish a novel!

Australia open with a nightwatchman at the end of day one. I've been a cricket lover for a very long time, but that is something I don't think I've ever seen before.

Roll on Christmas!

Just watched It’s A Wonderful Life and, cried my arse off. Ready for Christmas Day!

RIP Chris Rea. If you really want an idea of this man's talent, look past Road To Hell and Driving Home For Christmas (both of which are fine work) and check out the Blue Guitars set. The history of the blues in original music - in 11 albums! An extraordinary piece of work

This is more like it. Starting to experiment with production, different instrumentation, and some heartbreaking lyrics. Not surprising that Pet Sounds would soon follow. #SundayMorningMusic

Okay, this is terrible. The contractual obligation album. #SundayMorningMusic

Having a Beach Boys morning. I love Pet Sounds, of course, but there’s a bunch of other albums around that time I’ve never dug into. All with a luscious Sunday morning sound. #SundayMorningMusic

Catch Fesshole Live in Leicester, Luton and Leeds – tickets available now! We’re off to Sweden too, visiting Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm, and bringing Anon Opin to Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

I've just used an Oxford comma. #oohgetme

You've just got love Google's AI tool. I asked it what film the line 'Talk to the hand' is from. It tells me: "The movie you're likely thinking of is Talk to Me (2022), a popular Australian supernatural horror film". It's from Terminator 3.

Happiness is taking the dog out for a walk and the rain starts to hammer down just as you step back into the back door.