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You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Ex-BBC radio, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 7d

Made a little trail for my experimental short story podcast. listenwithother.co.uk

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 10h

If you've ever wondered what Virgina Woolf would look like packaged like a late 60s Len Deighton... I know I have...

A fake cover of Mrs Dalloway styled after the 1966 Penguin paperback of Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. There is a heavily screened black and white photo of Vanessa Redgrave. Orange stripes.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 9h

Floyd On France is on iPlayer! Obviously has been on YouTube for ages but here he is in all his higher definition glory, being told off by old ladies, pissed, plating abysmally. It was this that made me love cooking

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Floyd on France - 7. A Farewell to France

In the final programme of the series, Floyd retraces his steps in all the regions in which he has filmed, as he celebrates French cuisine one last time. (1987)

www.bbc.co.uk

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 8h

Why does nobody ever call the police? #TheIntruder

Larry Nightingale played by Finlay Robertson in Doctor Who 'Blink'

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 8h

Her door would not be unlocked! #TheIntruder

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 8h

Her phone would not just be unlocked! #TheIntruder

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 10h

If you've ever wondered what Virgina Woolf would look like packaged like a late 60s Len Deighton... I know I have...

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 10h

Damn, came here to say this.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 11h

Totally.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 11h

I have seen one of the Daniel Pike series but this sounds interesting.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12h

Picked this up out of curiosity, dangerous I know. TV tie-in for a short 1979 BBC thriller series, starring Bryan Marshall and Cyd Hayman.

The Mourning Brooch.
Anyone heard of it or know if it still exists?

Notice that the photo cover features a subtle, out of scale, cutout ‘falling body’.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 12h

What a great find! Never heard of it.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 12h

Hello. Very tasty. Complex. Mosaic and Simcoe hops. I love mosaic, indeed Adnams Mosaic is one of my favourite beers. #beer

Golden beer poured into a straight pint glass from a can of Adnams Big Skies double dry hopped IPA. 6.7% abv.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 13h

Yep!

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 13h

Yes too close not to be an homage.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 14h

Malmo is *so* close, but as you identify, the G is a tell.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 14h

I’m after both, thank you!

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 14h

I had no choice, you see. I hardly ever see Margery Allingham in secondhand bookshops, a good sign I think. People must hang on to them. It’s going to be a very Campion run-up to Christmas.

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 15h

Any font nerds care to name the sans serif fonts at work here in this beautiful cover and title page? @fontsinuse.com

Cover of a 1966 Penguin edition of Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. Heavily screened cropped photo of Michael Caine. Red diagonal stripes.

Inside cover drawings of a gun an ammunition

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 15h

“Have you eaten 3kg of cola bottles before?”

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

Melon farmer!

blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

Had a bit of a moment in my local secondhand bookshop. Got a free tote bag. He’s considering my idea for a dedicated crime section.

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

Oddly here's a tiny scene, in The Ribos Operation, that I DO remember. Binro the Heretic says he think them be not ice crystals, them be other suns. Only I remembered it as being in *Blakes 7*. Unless that also has a very similar scene.

An old man in rags says "They are not ice crystals."

A young man replies "You see, I come from one of those other worlds."

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · Dec 28

When I joined the BBC it was my ambition to read the Shipping Forecast. A colleague on my training course bought me a map that still hangs in our loo, showing some of the lesser-known areas. Dan, Able, Farewell, Deep, Chaucer…

Map including Iceland showing sea areas Dan, Able, Hekla, Straits, Reydar

Map showing few features. Square shipping areas Farewell, Deep, Vidal, Gulf, Ridge, Atlantis, Milne, Chaucer, Josephine, Horse

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 16h

“Haribo declined to comment when approached by the BBC.” 👌

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 17h

Barnsley:England’s Florida.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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blogmywiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 17h

My local Sainsbury’s has an amazingly wide selection of beer that usually also manages not to interest me at all. But today they surprised me.

Adnams Big Skies double dry hopped IPA 6.7%.
Wiper and True Daybreak 7% IPA.

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