It’s been a difficult couple of weeks made somewhat more bearable by the introduction into our lives of Bumble, the lovable idiot Even Charlotte the Intolerant loves him* *though she does growl the occasional telling off

This is Finley. He is the Guinness Book of World Records champ for most tennis balls held by a dog in their mouth with 6 at once. Earned the title six years ago and has remained undefeated. He may be a senior, but he definitely knows ball. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: finnyboymolloy)

Wife He tells a story Of enchanted wheeling birds Of fairies Ruins housing tiny people In the woods Silver eels like Glittering arrows Lancing through The memories Of my mother #PegsPoyums

Disappear me under psychedelic skins & skirts of wallpaper, replace my heart with a hostess trolley. I'll exist as a pharmaceutically serene oracular face in the wall; neighbours will crawl through suburbia genuflecting to leave me offerings of Pyrex & pampas grass in exchange for my wisdom

me welcoming all my new followers.

Where the deuce has @snowrespecter.bsky.social got to? He and ALSO MISSING @wildobliquities.bsky.social are some of the very best things about this application

What have you read, watched or listened to recently that you enjoyed? Here's my two penn'orth: precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/04/03/r...

Kent is the lady garden of England

An amusing in-joke I hadn’t noticed before at Christopher Lee’s expense in The House That Dripped Blood when John Pertwee’s egotistical thespian character claims to love the old Dracula films: ‘The ones with Bela Lugosi; not the new chap’ 🤭

Good ol’ Ingrid Tits

Got a bit of a thing for Thomasina Miers

Well, good morning, everybody – and happy sixth anniversary of this tweet to all who celebrate

Wow, just WOW

♥ ♥ ♥ Pope Leo ♥ ♥ ♥

This is an astonishingly good collection

I'm pleased to say that everything I'm doing to raise awareness of this new collection has not only generated some pre-orders (thank you!) but also prompted a bump in sales for the previous two. This supports my theory that the best way to promote older work is to keep creating new stuff.

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social something to think about here

Got So Long at the Fair (Fisher/Darnborough, 1950) as part of a DVD boxset of British Film Noir at Christmas And while I don’t consider it noir, it’s nevertheless superb and positively Hitchcockian in its intrigues, nail biting suspense and red herrings* *and problematic and distrust of foreigners

Prince Andrew left sweaty pitstains when he borrowed my Pizza Express t-shirt

Failing miserably at marketing my book since good launch sales. Have had a lot on, to be fair, but really need to pull my finger out [self-reprimanding emoji] Please consider leaving a review, if you’ve read it and are so inclined amzn.eu/d/05OeoT1b

Poster #1: The Interchange. “Ray Newman is an M. R. James for the 21st century. His haunting stories unfold in familiar, even banal settings – a rented flat, a holiday let, an inexplicable motorway interchange, the corner of a room... ” says @davidcollard.bsky.social

Drama: Mulholland Drive Action/adventure: Master & Commander Horror: Lake Mungo Comedy: Step Brothers (yes, I’m basic) Romance: Amelie Oscar Winner: No Country for Old Men

Taken some considerable time to get round to it but enjoyed Master and Commander enormously. Does Peter Weir ever miss? Me being me, though, I do question the historical accuracy of a chap at that time bowling over arm rather than round arm in the very brief cricket scene

Been getting strong ‘Martin Sheen’s presidential candidate in The Dead Zone’ from Trump for weeks now

WELCOME TO YORKSHIRE

come join us in the mixed region, the pasodoble, the two wolves inside you, the double bind: audhd. it's the best of both worlds as no one is calling it

I am neither autistic nor German. I knew these things already. I do, however, have a strong aversion to loud noises in enclosed spaces, bright lights, people walking behind me and to being crowded. What does this make me?

Honourable mentions... A Row Of Open Graves - Jamie Evans Fulci's Inferno - Matt Rogerson @vanjpes.bsky.social @1428publishing.bsky.social 📚🔥🤌🏻

I hear your anti-woke dad is drawing up a petition calling for a ban on importing avocados

I think I misremember mine e.g. ‘Sister… yes, you have a twin sister. If you won’t join the Dark Side, then maybe she will!’ and ‘My friend here, he doesn’t like you. I don’t like you either’

If I said you had a hideous, cadaverous body, would you allow me to dissect it in a public observatory?

Trying to get good readings on the Merlin app only for the cock pheasants to drown out the songbirds with their ‘I’m coming to shag ya!’ bellowing

16yo me (and most like the 30yo, 35yo and 40yo versions) would have definitely rewound to the bit in The African Queen when Katharine Hepburn clambers into the boat after a swim and you pretty much get to see her bristols I am growing

I mean, she’s fantastic in it, but did Katharine Hepburn not even *try* putting on an English accent for The African Queen? Wouldn’t have been quite so noticeably had her character’s brother not been played by Robert Morley, the most English film actor of all time

Pelleas and Melisande on Opera on 3 tonight. I took Will to see it when he was about 11. I must have been mad. At the first interval, he turned to me, ashen-faced, and said “Now I know what hell is”. I took pity on him and took him home. Neither of us has ever seen it beyond the first interval.

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The offer stands, by the way, that if you're someone I sort of know in some way and you might consider reviewing it, or otherwise making people aware of its existence, I'm happy to send a copy of 'Thin Places in Hard Concrete' your way.

This is one of the most visually stunning films I’ve ever seen. Some of those compositions, man

You tell ‘em, Nicodemus

Oh wow, that snake of fiery Roman torches slithering in the distance towards the Garden of Gethsemane in The Greatest Story Ever Told is phenomenal

Wanted something daft to watch and found it in Children of the Corn One of those films where the cinematography is 100 times better than the script, acting and direction

I’m quite strongly of the view that if a celebrity has endorsed a supermarket or done a voiceover ad for one, they should never be allowed to do so for another

Pope: War is evil, the nation state is no excuse for racism or oppression, we should break down barriers between nations to build peace, there should be no billionaires, free healthcare is a must, LGBT people deserve support. Right wingers: Hang on, what have I just joined?!

Watching Shia LaBeouf describe himself as a “traditional Catholic” (converted three years ago via the TLM), and this remains undefeated:

There’s great fun to be had commenting ‘Definitely not noir’ when someone posts their favourite example of the genre on a Facebook Film Noir page 🍿

I question their ability to keep good cask ale up there

AI-generated images making brand April Fool’s social posts even more painful than usual

Truly struggling to see the point of it all right now