I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum. All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply). The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”. Extract in the replies.

Not my house but I know my way round

"A thing like that... it'd have been suckled, you know" Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #Illustration #PenandInk #BlueSkyArt #NigelKneale

Logging on

1 And happy new year to all you magnificent bastards and bastardettes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8eF...

Not done one of these before!

Ruin two bands by combining them Siouxie and the Bee Gees

Oddity (Damian McCarthy, 2024)

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

I dislike AI because it's exploitative, made by the worst people in the world, and used primarily to justify firing people. But it really does not help that almost every AI defense I've seen employs one of several rhetorical moves that immediately make me class the author as an unserious person.

Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982)

"Nobody finds anybody very interesting now. And we're all very fat."

Make a Bond film casual The Spy Who Acknowledged Me

'Overnight' Ink on Bristol board, 2025 #BlueSkyArt #Illustration #PenandInk

A few Ghost Stories For Christmas poster designs from a while back 'A Warning To The Curious' 'Stigma' 'Whistle And I'll Come To You' #MRJames #BritishHorror

That feeling where I weigh-up up a box of chocolates in one hand to see if it still feels like there's "enough in there" before I sneak more into my mouth.

Five perfect films in no particular order Beyond The Black Rainbow 10 Rillington Place The Wailing Secrets & Lies The Innocents

Join us as we complete our reviews of the original run of #BBCGhostStoryForChristmas. We watched The Ice House. Join us at our Christmas spa retreat, pop on your headphones and listen to our review. Merry Christmas. tinyurl.com/1cehouse

'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' (Peter Greenaway, 1989)

Found your Christmas present

Post an iconic brunette

Share a 90s TV show that deserves more love. 📺 Holding On (BBC, 1997) Incredible 8-part drama about interwoven lives starring David Morrissey, Lesley Manville, Phil Daniels, Ruth Sheen, Badi Uzzaman, Sam Kelly, and many others. Witten by Tony Marchant

It's a real milestone when kids become old enough to understand Christmas hymns and songs in context as I did as a child. So now the 9 yr old sees that the three kings not only traveled "one in a taxi" and "one in a car", but that also one was by scooter, "papping his hooter, smoking a big cigar".

" ‘Between democracy and totalitarianism,’ says Mussolini, ‘there can be no compromise.’ The two creeds cannot even, for any length of time, live side by side. So long as democracy exists, even in its very imperfect English form, totalitarianism is in deadly danger.