Jingles Bells
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Maps of Imaginary Towns available in all bookshops! Also: The Netflix Reviewer Substack, Uneasy Listening podcast. PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award. Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright.
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If 2026 continues in a similar vein, you can rest assured that my output for the year will consist of a series of ever-lengthening, increasingly unrealistic, lists, possibly culminating in a master-list of all the lists I've produced
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If 2026 continues in a similar vein, you can rest assured that my output for the year will consist of a series of ever-lengthening, increasingly unrealistic, lists, possibly culminating in a master-list of all the lists I've produced
OK so my writing session this morning has mainly consisted of writing a completely unrealistic list of all the things I'm supposedly going to write in 2026
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
OK so my writing session this morning has mainly consisted of writing a completely unrealistic list of all the things I'm supposedly going to write in 2026
Also, I don't want to borrow more books from the library for fear of being halfway through something, and then having to return it before we leave
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Also, I don't want to borrow more books from the library for fear of being halfway through something, and then having to return it before we leave
We're packing to move house in the New Year, and I packed away all of my books, and I now realise I will probably have run out of things to read by about 14.34 this afternoon
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We're packing to move house in the New Year, and I packed away all of my books, and I now realise I will probably have run out of things to read by about 14.34 this afternoon
You won't catch me in another shop again until hopefully about January the 19th, and then only if I really must
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You won't catch me in another shop again until hopefully about January the 19th, and then only if I really must
Managed to secure some Christmas Cake but spectacularly failed to get any Crumbly Cheese to go with it, and I'll be damned if I'm going to the shops again now
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Managed to secure some Christmas Cake but spectacularly failed to get any Crumbly Cheese to go with it, and I'll be damned if I'm going to the shops again now
Me, belatedly realising I've done a terrible job of promoting the idea of buying my BOOK, Maps of Imaginary Towns, as a Christmas gift:
December 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Me, belatedly realising I've done a terrible job of promoting the idea of buying my BOOK, Maps of Imaginary Towns, as a Christmas gift:
Has anybody else on here read the Arts Council independent review? I have to say I'm a pretty big fan. Like the idea about scrapping Grantium and paying artists £30k a year
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Arts Council England - an independent review by Baroness Margaret Hodge
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Has anybody else on here read the Arts Council independent review? I have to say I'm a pretty big fan. Like the idea about scrapping Grantium and paying artists £30k a year
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
No joke: in my workplace (charity sector) there are people doing serious work directly combatting poverty, handing out warm clothes, food + fuel vouchers, etc, and most of the people doing this work are earning what will soon be below minimum wage
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
No joke: in my workplace (charity sector) there are people doing serious work directly combatting poverty, handing out warm clothes, food + fuel vouchers, etc, and most of the people doing this work are earning what will soon be below minimum wage
just lately it feels like between 90 and 95% of my job is reminding other people to do things, including the people senior to me
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
just lately it feels like between 90 and 95% of my job is reminding other people to do things, including the people senior to me
Only 8 days to go now, lads! we can do it!
ONLY 16 DAYS TO GO TIL THE SHORTEST DAY! THEN THE DAYS GET LONGER AGAIN!
WE CAN DO IT, PALS!
WE CAN DO IT, PALS!
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Only 8 days to go now, lads! we can do it!
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I've had to bookmark this. It has me in hysterics.
This video is trending in France and i share it bc it's so funny
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've had to bookmark this. It has me in hysterics.
Where to start with Taskmaster: All the Information is on the Task. My latest for The Netflix Reviewer thenetflixreviewer.substack.com/p/where-to-s...
Where to start with Taskmaster
All the information is on the task
thenetflixreviewer.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Where to start with Taskmaster: All the Information is on the Task. My latest for The Netflix Reviewer thenetflixreviewer.substack.com/p/where-to-s...
Was looking around some stalls earlier and one of them was selling a type of Christmas Cake labelled as being "Yotam Ottolenghi's Christmas cake" and I couldn't help but wonder whether he knows they've got his cake, and wants it back
December 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Was looking around some stalls earlier and one of them was selling a type of Christmas Cake labelled as being "Yotam Ottolenghi's Christmas cake" and I couldn't help but wonder whether he knows they've got his cake, and wants it back
Genuinely, and this is not hyperbole, genuinely devastated that Christmas Cake is so expensive these days. Would have made one myself back in October had I realised. I bloody love Christmas Cake, it's my favourite of all the Christmas foods
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Genuinely, and this is not hyperbole, genuinely devastated that Christmas Cake is so expensive these days. Would have made one myself back in October had I realised. I bloody love Christmas Cake, it's my favourite of all the Christmas foods
Always find it annoying that the production of mashed potato is so labour-intensive. I REFUSE TO EAT THE DRIED SORT THAT COMES IN A BOX. I don't hate myself that much
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Always find it annoying that the production of mashed potato is so labour-intensive. I REFUSE TO EAT THE DRIED SORT THAT COMES IN A BOX. I don't hate myself that much
My Grandmother was deaf as a post, and in a 'conversation' with her, you could never get a word in edgewise for her telling you dozens of grim stories about people you'd never met 'who'd died in the war' or 'in a bizarre tractor accident'. I don't think AI has got the chops to recreate any of that
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My Grandmother was deaf as a post, and in a 'conversation' with her, you could never get a word in edgewise for her telling you dozens of grim stories about people you'd never met 'who'd died in the war' or 'in a bizarre tractor accident'. I don't think AI has got the chops to recreate any of that
Really sad news that the author Sophie Kinsella has died: she was the author of several absolutely cracking, pacey funny rom-coms including a few of my personal faves, I've Got Your Number, Remember Me? and The Domestic Goddess.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
The ‘queen of romantic comedy’ has died 18 months after announcing her brain cancer diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Really sad news that the author Sophie Kinsella has died: she was the author of several absolutely cracking, pacey funny rom-coms including a few of my personal faves, I've Got Your Number, Remember Me? and The Domestic Goddess.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Accidentally became really popular at work by bringing in some new coffee pods that everybody really likes
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Accidentally became really popular at work by bringing in some new coffee pods that everybody really likes
Participating in 'show me a photo from your phone that has your energy, but which isn't a selfie', so I can share this highly important photo with you all
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Participating in 'show me a photo from your phone that has your energy, but which isn't a selfie', so I can share this highly important photo with you all
Kept awake half the night by somebody's cat out yowling in the street, and this morning I was so befuddled by the lack of sleep that I took a completely empty bag out of the house: no diary, no notebook, no wallet, nothing
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Kept awake half the night by somebody's cat out yowling in the street, and this morning I was so befuddled by the lack of sleep that I took a completely empty bag out of the house: no diary, no notebook, no wallet, nothing
where can I get a set of old-fashioned drawers for index cards, the type you used to get in a library, before the advent of the online database?
I'm starting to have a need of somewhere 'proper' to put the index cards that are increasingly becoming a part of my analogue writing 'system'
I'm starting to have a need of somewhere 'proper' to put the index cards that are increasingly becoming a part of my analogue writing 'system'
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
where can I get a set of old-fashioned drawers for index cards, the type you used to get in a library, before the advent of the online database?
I'm starting to have a need of somewhere 'proper' to put the index cards that are increasingly becoming a part of my analogue writing 'system'
I'm starting to have a need of somewhere 'proper' to put the index cards that are increasingly becoming a part of my analogue writing 'system'
I jest, but the photo-to-text has saved me quite a bit of time this morning, even if it did interpret some of my writing as being in Cyrillic
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I jest, but the photo-to-text has saved me quite a bit of time this morning, even if it did interpret some of my writing as being in Cyrillic
Really need a photo-to-text app that can read my handwriting, because mine just invented a government department called "the Ministry of Mousing"
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Really need a photo-to-text app that can read my handwriting, because mine just invented a government department called "the Ministry of Mousing"
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FIFA should expand their roster of prizes to include one for literature
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
FIFA should expand their roster of prizes to include one for literature