Just finished reading Early Riser by @jasperfforde.bsky.social in which much of the population hibernates as an adaptation to extreme winters caused by climate change. Highly entertaining, as are all his books.

« There will always be the Gower » cc @jasperfforde.bsky.social

Consider this a recommendation of The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social. How a novel can mesh moving social commentary along with laugh-like-an-idiot absurdism so well is amazing

Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? If your answer to that question is "I'll have to think about it", you just might have the indecisive qualities necessary to become a career procrastinator. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)

On my Substack: Film Review F1 The Movie. If you go to see one motorsport movie this year, watch Steve McQueen's thundering 1971's petrol-soaked epic 'Le Mans'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Actually as the excellent @jasperfforde.bsky.social writes in the brilliant The Constant Rabbit - we are trying to run a 21st century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments

Alzheimer's TREK26 Update: This is my Mum, in 2020, lockdown Summer. I often used to push an armchair out into the garden for her. Team Fforde are tackling, for the third time, the 26 mile TREK26 challenge here in Mid Wales on Saturday 14th June '25. Link: www.justgiving.com/team/theteam...

The time I met the guy who built the Colditz Glider open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers. Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening. Police are puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Astronaut claims ‘Moon Landing Hoax’ never happened. Chris Hadfield, former astronaut and noted public educator finds himself in hot water after making bold and unproven claim. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

In training for Trek26, a 26-mile walk through the Brecon Beacons in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Mum had it for seven years, and this is the third Trek26 I've done. Any contribution to the Alzheimer's Society would be gratefully received. www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...

Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy: Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in' Full story on my FREE Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Literary Festivals - Author Perspective 25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

British citizens fear 'Surveillance Society'. Suspicion of surveillance and creeping government overreach are just a few of the subjects revealed in the nation's intercepted email, phone and text messages, it was reported yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Easter Substack: Government rejects Expert Advice from Expert Advice Experts. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Quality Street Chocolates deemed to be 'only adequate' by Trading Standards Authority, name change demanded. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Conversations with Cabbies. Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

It's that time of year when I lace up my action booties and head to the hills to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - a 26 mile walk in the Brecon Beacons. Any amount you can spare would by wonderful - thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...

On my Substack: Let's hear it for casual decency: A toddler in jeopardy and I only get the bronze open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Have you, by any chance, read the amazing Thursday Next series of novels by Jasper Fforde? There's a great subplot about an import duty on cheese, blackmarket trading in 🧀, and a cheese mafia. I can't help but think @jasperfforde.bsky.social was on to something. #booksky

#bookreview 💙📚 🪐📚 Fan of? -British Humour -Premises you can't neatly sum up -Not sleeping Try @jasperfforde.bsky.social's Early Riser www.jasperfforde.com/riser/riser.... A MC at a hibernation center to keep people from waking up and becoming zombies finds that's the least weird part of the job.

On my Free Substack: Cleaner runs amok in White House: President Trump's condition described as 'Shiny' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Sunstack: 'Flat Stanley 'Enemy of the People'. Much loved fictional character refuses to surrender to authorities after deportation ordered by judge citing 'seditious plans for a Global Flat Agenda.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Flat Stanley books banned from libraries Stanley Lambchop, openly Flat since 1964, enrages Thingumbob School Board by promoting a flat lifestyle 'inherently dangerous to children'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Artificial Intelligence 'a really excellent very good thing' says author, and cites bounteous benefits our future technological overlords will bring, and wants this to be on the record. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Flat Stanley, much loved children's book character is round and not flat, claims group, citing 'global conspiracy against roundness'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

A few weeks ago, I randomly picked up The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social ... And I no longer believe in coincidence. You'd be hard pressed to find fiction better suited to the current moment!

On my Substack: Leading Limpet Theologian shocked to discover Winkle God may be Winkle-shaped: Discovery could cause schism among Limpet Theologians, challenge existence of God. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Hurrah! I picked up Red Side Story by @jasperfforde.bsky.social from @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social this morning - looking forward to it! 🙂

Been struggling to get my reading head on recently, but reckon this from @jasperfforde.bsky.social should sort it out

Roger Moore drinks milk; Fforde becomes an author. Yes, really. That's how it happened. Origin story on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On Jasper's Substack: Coach from 1960's found teetering on cliff - Italian police say British coach may offer clue to unsolved gold heist from 1968 open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Haiku #haiku

On Jasper's Substack: Shooting commercials in the eighties in my youth, and the Great Toblerone Overeating Incident of 1985. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On Substack: Excerpt from 'Something Rotten,' the 4th in the Thursday Next Series, and showcases the topical current affairs programme: 'Evade the Question Time' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Yes, out today in paperback: Red Side Story, the long awaited sequel to Shades of Grey (sorry for the wait) available in all bookshops and online retailers. #publicationday #redsidestory #jasperfforde

The paperback of @jasperfforde.bsky.social’a brilliant “Red Side Story”, the long awaited sequel to “Shades of Grey” is now in the shop and online! Hooray! - Michael

Jasper's Substack: Limpet Scientists Debate 'Multiple Foreshore' Theory. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

If you managed B.B. King’s beekeeper’s beekeeper and also looked after a pellet gun which belonged to BB King’s grand-daughter while singing the first line of ‘Bye bye Baby’, then you’d be: ’B.B’s beekeeperkeeper keeping BB’s baby’s baby’s BB while ballarding ‘bye-bye baby, baby bye-bye’.

On my substack: 'Overindulged Childline' aims to help spoiled children get pony, iPhone, skiing holiday. A new company aims to help children whose parents may not be treating them in the manner of the child's egocentric self-choosing open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

As someone who has way more experience of Narcissists than I would like, confecting an argument to place you in a poor light is very much within the playbook

On Jasper's Substack: I bake a lot. During lockdown it all got a little odd: Representing Nuclear Fusion in bread rolls and other Ffordian silliness open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

@craigmod.com wrote about the same thing on the first day of his recent 10-day photo project: craigmod.com/ridgeline/202/

New on Jasper's Substack: Seeking fulfilment in the post-skill world, or why in photography I still choose film over digital.. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On Jasper's Substack: The public are warned about Spatial Fraud or so-called 'perspective crime' whereby value of goods may be radically altered by misrepresenting their distance from the observer. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...