And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

#beersky delivery today, totally new brewery to me, AlgeBrew from Petersfield in Hampshire.

2nd run post calf pull, bit longer at 3.7k and a better pace, felt fine thankfully. #runsky

Just seen the highlights and my god Real Madrid are such bad losers, just can't handle it.

Picked up a couple of new #TBR fillers today, Captive Universe by Harry Harrison, in VG condition, and Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster, #booksky

Danny Passarella, author of Spacemen 3 Vinyl Extended Edition offers us ten entry points into the medicated back catalogue of Rugby's transcendent narco rock minimalists The Strange World Of… #Spacemen3 buff.ly/Xy3qXT5

🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨 To celebrate #worldquantumday our friends @scifinow.bsky.social have revealed Justin Adams' STUNNING cover art for THE QUANTUM DAWN the highly-anticipated 4th book in @derekkunsken.bsky.social#worldquantumday's QUANTUM EVOLUTION. https://bit.ly/4ccT0v2 Oct '26. Preorder: https://geni.us/quantdawn

The outraged bookseller! 😂😁 Love it.

My not-so-shortlist for #5DebutAlbums7579 looks like this. 1977 alone could have produced a hearty top five, and there's at least half a dozen here that should feel nailed on, plus plenty of other goodies that could twist my arm. Here's to the next three weeks... #MusicSky

#FPL #GW32 60 points, up 43k to 475k OR Used 1FT Ekitike to Bowen. 👍👌 My faith in Scott is repaid again ⚽ against the low confidence Arsenal. DON'T LOOK AT MY BENCH 😂😳

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Yeah, love my bench, pity I don't have a BB 😂😂 #FPL

#PreRoastPrep In The Pipeworks Crafty Devil - I'm Still Standing #beersky #nowdrinking

Finished the #WoT 12 The Gathering Storm, in the last few days, much better, shit actually happens, people getting their act together, didn't notice any change of style with Sanderson coming in, unless he was responsible for the quicker pace. #booksky

What. A. Moment. 😮‍💨

Watching #MOTD gotta say #Burnley unlucky with both of the denied goals, especially Humphreys, if only he had normal knees that #FPL clean sheet for Verbruggen might not have stood. 😂😂 🐎 🐴

Speaking of elk statues

Oh yes, I said that. 😁😁😁🍒🍒 #FPL

Kinda hoping Arsenal do bottle it today, firstly as a Bournemouth follower, but also like an idiot I left Gabriel on my #FPL bench 🙄🙄 and forgot to sub him for Senesi.

Today we honour the legacy of Edith Monture, the first Indigenous registered nurse in Canada. Monture, a member of the Mohawk tribe was born on April 10, 1890 on Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation near Brantford Ontario.

"At that age (17 or 18), the whole Transformer / Velvets-thing is so attractive but you don’t see the downside of that lifestyle; you just see these artists really bearing their souls and creating this terrific, dark, bleak work." Mark Gatiss on #LouReed - Transformer buff.ly/i0v8iQC

1st run since pulling my calf, slow short 2.7k trial but felt okay, no twinges. I'm working Saturday anyway but parkrun would probably be too soon anyway, and next few runs on the flat also I think. #runsky

Hi Folks, new video! I chat to Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space and most recently Halcyon Years. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐🩵#scifibooks #sciencefiction #spaceopera #booktube #interview youtu.be/OJ7h-myqqLU

Report from Iridescence: The Recollections is launched and Colourfields is a BSFA Award winner! briardenebooks.uk/2026/04/08/r...

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Wonderful article about the sad loss of a brewery very close to my formative drinking years.

The latter stages of the Champions' League, so naturally everyone is talking about Manchester United. Taken from "The Ian Fiveankles Show"

Yesss #6music playing All on You (Perfume) by Paris Angels, great tune, the 12" is a stupendous track #nowlistening

In the short page format she used in The Employees, the created Wax Child is telling the story of the witches, and the eventual trials they face, interspersed with spells, it's certainly a different read! Some great prose, flowing and imaginative, those who like it weird will enjoy this. #booksky

Fury (1947) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore ✅ - generations after Earth's destruction, "Immortal" elites struggle over the direction of a sclerotic human society on Venus. A propulsive yarn originally serialised in Astounding.

The Blue Notebooks is a beautiful album, often listened to in the car on repeat with me.

"I find it kind of soothing, like Harold Budd’s stuff or Brian Eno’s Music For Airports, and I kind of stumbled across it on Radio 3. It’s so hypnotic and it’s so sad, yet it’s utterly compelling. I listen to it all of the time." Mark Gatiss on #MaxRichter - The Blue Notebooks buff.ly/z8ZrSTz

So annoying that Bayern didn't finish them off, so many chances missed.

Picked these 5 up for about 1.80 each including p&p, and all in pretty good condition too. I've just finished listening to The Kraken Wakes on audiobook which was really good. #booksky

Listen if the world is ending tomorrow, I'll just end it hopefully watching Real Madrid lose again. #Diaz

First potatoes in, actually to the day I did it last year, and same variety, Casablanca which were a great success. #allotment #growyourown

Recently acquired this superb Keith Roberts collection & have just finished ‘Weihnachtabend’ - easily one of the best short stories I’ve had the pleasure to discover. I thought ‘Pavane’ set a high bar for ‘alternative world’ tales, but this later masterpiece really is in a league of its own.

Whilst in Wells today, the Oxfam had these in. The Last Continent by Edmund Cooper, Eyes of Amber by Joan D Vinge, and The Nomads of time by Michael Moorcock. #booksky

Spent the weekend In Bath with relatives, good food and company, went for a drink in the Kingsmead Street Bottle tap, and today we all went to Wells, AKA Sandford, and also home to the Baby Eating Bishop. #justtheoneswanactually

How can humans survive inside a liquid planetoid, and what does their fate have to do with a South Pacific aquafarmer? This week's essay is a swift look at Bob Shaw's Medusa's Children (1977).

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of our weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, including evidence that we're being haunted by the ghost of BrewDog. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/04/news...

Hi folks, new video! Prompted by a couple of recent reads, I take a look at some books that depict different flavours of future England. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/BnaTp8FsoEE

Whilst in Cardiff picked up in the Oxfam bookshop these 2, they also had 7-8 John Brunner books but I don't know which ones are consider worth reading from him, plus they were all in poorish condition tbh. #SF #scifi #booksky

Just been to see Project Hail Mary, could have been cut a fair bit, lots of silly nonsense, but plus points, good superman joke, Dennis Wilson song in it, the science /planets bits were good. 3/5. #scifi #SF

This fine collection of stories by the superlative Christopher Priest has thankfully arrived in time for some Easter holiday reading. Hard pressed to select which tale to savour first, but the central premise of ‘An Infinite Summer’ (such a great title) has long piqued this reader‘s curiousity…

Out next Week! Meet our UK Special Edition, Limited-Run, signed hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO, Katherine Addison/ @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's new novella within the wider world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR & THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO series! Preorder now! https://geni.us/orbcairado

Preparing my Easter Egg hunt for the neighbours, I hope they like surprises

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: ‘Fragments’ by Billy Fuller Sixteen tracks of home studio recorded kosmische and krautrock from the Beak> bassist, written, performed, and recorded entirely solo. @beakbristol.bsky.social @invadarecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/features/bes...

Some beautifully atmospheric music just released by Billy, wonderful stuff, if I wasn't away I'd definitely being going to Bristol for this.