Spent all day at work dealing with complicated service calls and baffling requests when all I wanted to do was get home and write more of my sci-fi canine banter scenes

Share a favourite black and white movie

Mysteriously feeling the urge to post this old classic again don’t know why

Come on people, let's have some love for Untalkative Bunny! A totally silent but hugely expressive character who's not too impressed with the local milk delivery service in this clip. Early 2000s animation at its best

Sture is my new favourite dinosaur! He's Swedish with English subtitles and he is cute and hilarious. I've already watched this cartoon of him being rubbish at building a house six times and will be watching it again

Excellent canine haul from the charity shop this afternoon - four little upper class dudes and two DVDs of Dogtanian. One for all and all for one!

This morning I was gathering conkers in the street while listening to great lost 90s indie bands, and even though the world seems to be going down the pan faster than our eyes can follow, if I can still find little moments of beauty like this in my life, I will not lose hope

“So which was better, Laffalympics or Animalympics? Let’s go straight to our presenters to find out.”

There's a great new story from @furryfootage.bsky.social now available on Plott Hound! It's a dark journey with an unnerving destination, and if you like horror and supernatural fiction with heart and thought to it, you should read this.

It’s Saturday!! 📺 Post a cartoon series you love Untalkative Bunny! I only discovered this early 2000s series last year, and it’s wonderful. A silent yellow rabbit attempts to negotiate modern city life, with results ranging between gently satirical and utterly childish. To a mellow jazz soundtrack

Five years ago today I took this picture and posted it. I have no memory of why I did either of those things

Early Christmas present ideas, if anyone wants to see me having a “real meat advent” (which sounds like an obscure double entendre of some kind)

There’s still 6 hours left of National Fox Day where I am, just enough time to post my fox OC Mike - he may look a bit grumpy now, but give him a large bag of crispy corn snacks or a CD of Porcupine Tree and he’ll soon cheer up art by @artdexo2000.bsky.social

I can't really do that "Art Before Covid vs. Now" meme because drawing is hardly my strong point, but at least I can say: Before Covid: never written any fiction at all; vs. Now: enough published stories to fill an anthology, most in actual printed books. I'd never imagined I could do this.

Spent last night watching 1970s Bigfoot movies to cheer myself up. I’m massively interested in cryptids of all kinds, but Bigfoot’s always been a favourite, and the 70s were definitely his heyday

But where does Mildew Wolf fit into this

If only this was literally true! I’d be on the first plane to Bangkok right now

I must stop doing this annoying thing I do where I comment on a post and then a minute later I think “argh that’s so cringey/embarrassing/unfunny” and delete it and replace it with something more bland. Curse you, online social anxiety!

Comin' at ya like I'm in an old school 3D movie Great icon work by @bactover.bsky.social

Just spent 40 minutes cooking a meal that turned out to be so grim that I threw most of it away and ate some chocolate instead. I should have known better than to trust the Reduced To Clear section in Lidl

What flavour is your sona?

I just bought this excellent Glam Nessie in Oxfam

Life begins at 40 apparently, though I don’t remember noticing any difference! My 20s feel like a complete false start now, and my 30s were a steep learning curve as a result, and the learning continues. Keep finding out about yourself, you may be better than you think.

Watched “Snoopy Come Home” again last night - I know Peanuts used to sneak some adult concepts in, but this is going a bit far

Currently wondering whether to buy this slightly nightmarish jigsaw from my local charity shop

Here I go again, buying beers just because of what’s on the label. (to be fair, both of these were pretty good, particularly the Stoat Stout)

New sci-fi horror movie: Quatermass And The Piss

Another one for National Dog Day - here's cinematic genius Jacques Tati explaining why he always has dogs in his movies. "They are, to me, marvellous comedians." Thank you, Jacques, we try our best!

It's National Dog Day where I am! Obviously every day is a dog day for me, but it's nice to get some recognition once a year 🎨 @artdexo2000.bsky.social @chanderdeerfox.bsky.social

The ending of “Ring Of Bright Water” demonstrates the arbitrary nature of death and how easily some random event could bring about our immediate demise. This is not the kind of thing an 8-year old really wants to be shown. I still have never been able to watch that film again.

Anyone want to buy their fursuit head from Home Bargains this year?

Reacquainting myself with an old favourite movie tonight, as I found a version of Jacques Tati's "Playtime" that was a full five minutes longer than the one I was familiar with. Will I be able to spot where those extra five minutes are?

I bought my first Christmas decoration of the year today! OK, it’s still only August, but who could refuse a tinsel dinosaur in a Santa hat with googly eyes?

A beautiful visitor I found in my home last night

All those tech bros banging on about AI and “world-changing” and splashing out offensive amounts of money on whatever this year’s hype is rather then spending it on alleviating poverty etc should be forced by law to read these two books

I’ve been back to that antique shop that had a cabinet of Pokemon cards, and now they’ve got a whole room full of them! It’s in a creaky-floored 16th century building with old wooden beams, which makes seeing Psyduck on the wall even more strange

I’ve been going round the charity shops again and I think this fox is trying to suck out my soul

It's International Wolf Day, which gives me an excuse to post some cartoon violence from Bro and Bro, the fraternally-challenged wolves from the great lost '90s TV show "Wolf It"

Nick lives! He was a bit fiddly but eventually I managed to get him together

Today’s charity shop bargain is this cheap knock-off nanoblock model of Nick Wilde. Will my clumsy big fingers be capable of bringing him to life?

You can tell you live in a nice part of town when someone leaves a chandelier next to the bins

Just reminding myself of the best local newspaper story of the last five years

Going through some folders of old photos and found this postcard from 1911 that I have no memory of saving. Given that I've been worrying this week about how many unfinished stories I have, this is spookily appropriate

No take!! Only Throw!! I do enjoy a good frisbee, and no you can't have it. (Silly Headshot comm drawn by @chanderdeerfox.bsky.social)

As if to prove that I will buy any old nonsense for 50p in a charity shop, I have just bought Rod Stewart’s Christmas album in July

Ten more books that have influenced my own writing. Some of these I first read when I was about 15, and they've lurked somewhere in the background of everything I've written since.

Ten books that have influenced my own writing

I'm not much of a fan of Old Speckled Hen but I approve of the suave skinnydipping fox in this ad from 2022

Now that the BBC can’t show Masterchef anymore, I think we have the perfect replacement right here.

Exciting charity shop purchases today! I haven’t seen “Dinosaurs” since the 90s, it’ll be interesting to see how it holds up - I remember there being a lot of episodes where having comedy dinosaurs allowed the show to sneak in some quite serious issue-driven stuff