Looks as if the local common lizard colony has survived another winter...

As someone just a year behind him, I commiserate...

Voted. Took small pleasure in ignoring the smug, creepily friendly Reform chump running an exit poll.

Weird spring day. Surprisingly warm. Sat in garden lulled by drone of bees. Retired indoors; ate a pleasant meal. Spent the next several hours watching two houses in the terrace opposite reduced by fire to ruins. Thought about instant homelessness. Thought about missiles howling down from the sky

Just finished listening to audiobook of Patti Smith's memoir Bread of Angels. She reads it herself. Poetic and soporific. Can recommend if you like that sort of thing...

Enjoying Leepus: Dizzy by @jamiedelano.bsky.social of Hellblazer fame. In the ever-present tense of 'Inglund', and the dystopian aftermath of The Reduction, our hero fields unexpected challenges from nearly all remaining powers that be - to his friends, his home, possibly to his own identity...

Fucking potholes, eh? I blame our Reform council.

Just a reminder. They seem pretty cheap for the moment...

very cool. In case people are interested here's your interview about book thirteen tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/he...

An audio edition of my novel Leepus DIZZY now joins BOOK THIRTEEN as available on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GNDHYD3...

Ailments: irritations that in youth generally come and go, but after a certain age accumulate relentless.

Recording of second audiobook in three months nearing completion; heartily sick now of the sound of my own voice. One more to go. I may thereafter consider a vow of silence.

In poker terms he's a 'maniac' who thinks he's a fucking 'eagle'. We're all the bloody chips.

Damn pigeons and collared doves are convinced it's spring; their constant amorous vocalisations outside my studio window are not conducive to calm audiobook recording.

Jamie Delano chats about bringing his prose novel Book Thirteen To Audio Life tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/he... @jamiedelano.bsky.social

Can't imagine Trump is going to let the woman who won 'his' Nobel Peace Prize assume the presidency of Venezuela.

"The Sentence": 40,000 unpunctuated single-syllable words, written by @fruishfruish.bsky.social and performed by Daniel Copeland is now available to listen to here fruishon.co.uk Well worth the effort.

Watched The Traitors for the first (and probably last) time, just to see... Weird celebration of self-absorbed mendacity and deception. Very 21st century.

Kitchen still life. Happy New Year.

Fascists v tsunami of righteous loathing.

His work wants to send my unwilling son to US for a conference. He has to fill out intrusive online application and have personal interview at embassy. He's praying they reject him.

Happy Christmas from Lepus Books lepusbooks.co.uk

Waking at an ungodly hour from a mess of disturbing dreams. Drinking tea to calm yourself and stupidly turning the news on...

Not wishing to bore with repetitious mentions, but my novel, BOOK THIRTEEN (written as A William James), is now available via Audible. My two LEEPUS novels will follow in due course, once my vocal cords are restored. www.audible.com/pd/B0G5D2FX4...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

You'd think it would be quite difficult to misplace a sledgehammer in and around a relatively small house with limited outbuildings... but it seems I have done that.

I have a few codes for promo copies of this, so the first five people who respond and express a desire to hear it are welcome. Shout and I'll follow you back and provide code via 'chat'.

So, after a labourious couple of months of self-recording and mastering, my first novel, BOOK THIRTEEN, is now available in an audio edition via Audible and Apple Books etc. If anyone wants to invest a monthly credit and give it a star or two, I'd be grateful. Recommended for insomniacs.

Re the fuckwit Farage: of course, in my experience, the 60s and 70s were rife with both casual and vindictive racism, in the playground and beyond; later those unenlightened took it underground. Farage and his ilk, unreformed throughout, dug it up and waved its rotten corpse in our faces.

Overdiagnosis blah blah. I reckon those not stressed to the point of derangement and beyond by being forced to survive the sick society we have created are the aberrant cohort.

Tedious day spent setting up a new Mac. Hopefully this one will be future proof sufficient to see me out. Also, if you haven't already saved a note of your app licences and subscriptions I suggest you do it now; failure results in tedious complications and expense.

'Smorgasbord' is a word I never want to hear again post this fucking budget.

Good folk, fine folk #FF @londonhorrorcomic.bsky.social @jamiedelano.bsky.social @dirkmaggs.bsky.social @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social @mariastrutz.bsky.social @marthawells.com @jonsavage.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @andy-paciorek.bsky.social

Private Eye...

A pleasant weekend in Glastonbury visiting grandson. Charity shop bonus. And now heavy diesel convoy grunting past our motel bringing the fair to town for next week's carnival. Good food too. Pretty chilled to be honest.

Bad day at sea...

That's nice; forty minutes into recording and hour-long chapter of an audiobook, and some prick with money to burn decides our village is the ideal location over which to hurl his stunt plane loudly about the sky. Wonder how deep he'd bury himself if he failed to pull out of one of those dives...

The top of the shit pile feeling a bit wobbly if they're throwing royals to the wolves...?

Word of advice: maybe think twice about recording your novel as an audiobook if you're prone to strangled coughs and splutterings. Twenty-odd minutes per chapter to record, another couple of hours each to edit out the wheezy breaths and retakes...

Le Guin, as ever, worth listening to here.

RIP Ron Tiner From HELLBLAZER, "Larger than Life," writ by @jamiedelano.bsky.social

We are very sorry to announce the death of artist, writer and educator Ron Tiner, an occasional contributor to downthethetubes and a much-appreciated advisor to the site. Jim O’Brien pays tribute… https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-artist-and-writer-ron-tiner/

'Ambagious Tactics': a nicely presented limited-editon set of inspirational cards. They can be purchased via fruishon.co.uk or by contacting @fruishfruish.bsky.social

All fired up (after fucking years of idleness) to start work on writing a new novel... so what do I do but decide I need to record audiobook editions of the three already written first. Jesus, someone shoot me.

I wonder which corporate entity gets the contract for the operation of UK digital ID...

Compulsory digital ID now, is it? Labour remorseless in shooting its feet off.

Lurid east of England sundown. #photography

Fortification. #photography (phone snap)

@cultauthor.bsky.social Rust never peeps (sorry) #photography (phone snap)

Walked too far for our age today; had to catch the bus back. Ignomious.