Gareth
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Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine
he/him
he/him
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Margarine Shitman
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Margarine Shitman
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
I heard Eva Schloss speak once and she was such a voice for humanity and goodness. A great loss.
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss dies aged 96 as King leads tributes
King Charles said he was
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January 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I heard Eva Schloss speak once and she was such a voice for humanity and goodness. A great loss.
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My Books of the Year, in which I ponder why 2025 wasn't a banner reading year for me, and what that might actually mean.
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Books of the Year 2025
Some of my books of the year. I didn’t end up writing about Doctor Glas. Missing are Adrian Duncan and Alan Hollinghurst. 2025 wasn’t really a banner year for reading, though I’m scratching m…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
My Books of the Year, in which I ponder why 2025 wasn't a banner reading year for me, and what that might actually mean.
tinycamels.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/b...
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What the hell am I doing looking up buses to see if I can get to Hunstanton to see Su Pollard and back the same night?
January 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
What the hell am I doing looking up buses to see if I can get to Hunstanton to see Su Pollard and back the same night?
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Happy New Year! Joan Chitty’s just been round to wish us the same and she took the last Roses in the tub, which I’ve since found out was a ‘Signature Truffle’. I’m gutted as all that’s left now is a ‘Tangy Orange Crème’ which - despite being dented - is too exotic for early Jan, wouldn’t you say?
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Happy New Year! Joan Chitty’s just been round to wish us the same and she took the last Roses in the tub, which I’ve since found out was a ‘Signature Truffle’. I’m gutted as all that’s left now is a ‘Tangy Orange Crème’ which - despite being dented - is too exotic for early Jan, wouldn’t you say?
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Judge Goldsworth's desk in PALE FIRE contains an 'old but unused pocket diary optimistically maturing there until its calendric correspondencies came around again'.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Judge Goldsworth's desk in PALE FIRE contains an 'old but unused pocket diary optimistically maturing there until its calendric correspondencies came around again'.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
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An addendum to yesterday's post: my big rereading project starts now. #BookSky
Rereading
It was June and I’d been thinking about rereading in a general sort of way when I read a Guardian books interview in which Graham Norton admitted ‘I very rarely reread anything’. …
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January 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
An addendum to yesterday's post: my big rereading project starts now. #BookSky
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This is the start of the updated Dance To The Music Of Time @idca.bsky.social
By the kebab van on the edge of the business park the Deliveroo drivers are making a fire from fallen branches to keep warm. Welcome to the future, 2026 style
January 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
This is the start of the updated Dance To The Music Of Time @idca.bsky.social
Judge Goldsworth's desk in PALE FIRE contains an 'old but unused pocket diary optimistically maturing there until its calendric correspondencies came around again'.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Judge Goldsworth's desk in PALE FIRE contains an 'old but unused pocket diary optimistically maturing there until its calendric correspondencies came around again'.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
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Time-lapse of an ultrasonic cheese cutter at Rodolphe Le Meunier fromager.
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Time-lapse of an ultrasonic cheese cutter at Rodolphe Le Meunier fromager.
2020: After Love
2021: The Souvenir: Part II
2022: Aftersun
2023: Monster
2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2025: One Battle After Another
#FilmSky
2021: The Souvenir: Part II
2022: Aftersun
2023: Monster
2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2025: One Battle After Another
#FilmSky
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
2022: Corsage
2023: La Chimera
2024: Grand Tour
2025: One Battle After Another
2023 and 2024 were bloody good cinema years ❤️❤️
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
2022: Corsage
2023: La Chimera
2024: Grand Tour
2025: One Battle After Another
2023 and 2024 were bloody good cinema years ❤️❤️
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Sylvie's Love
2021: Benediction
2022: Aftersun
2023: La Chimera
2024: Queer / Juror #2
2025: Roofman
2020: Sylvie's Love
2021: Benediction
2022: Aftersun
2023: La Chimera
2024: Queer / Juror #2
2025: Roofman
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
2020: After Love
2021: The Souvenir: Part II
2022: Aftersun
2023: Monster
2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2025: One Battle After Another
#FilmSky
2021: The Souvenir: Part II
2022: Aftersun
2023: Monster
2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2025: One Battle After Another
#FilmSky
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I can't believe these #BookSky people posting their books of the year before today. What if you read your best book on New Year's Eve? Well, I didn't, now you mention it, but it's been a good year. Here's what I got up to in 2025.
End-of-year reading meme
This thing again! How many books read in 2025? 135, way down from last year’s 158 (158‽ How did that happen?) Fiction/non-fiction? 98 fiction, 35 non-fiction, 2 mixed Male/female authors? 87M…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I can't believe these #BookSky people posting their books of the year before today. What if you read your best book on New Year's Eve? Well, I didn't, now you mention it, but it's been a good year. Here's what I got up to in 2025.
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Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
2025 threesomes
Another year gone! I’ve been busy seeing and listening to things, as usual, some of which have been those mentioned below. Top 3 theatre Firstly, The Invention of Love at the Hampstead Theatr…
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December 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
I can't believe these #BookSky people posting their books of the year before today. What if you read your best book on New Year's Eve? Well, I didn't, now you mention it, but it's been a good year. Here's what I got up to in 2025.
End-of-year reading meme
This thing again! How many books read in 2025? 135, way down from last year’s 158 (158‽ How did that happen?) Fiction/non-fiction? 98 fiction, 35 non-fiction, 2 mixed Male/female authors? 87M…
somewhereboy.wordpress.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I can't believe these #BookSky people posting their books of the year before today. What if you read your best book on New Year's Eve? Well, I didn't, now you mention it, but it's been a good year. Here's what I got up to in 2025.
Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
2025 threesomes
Another year gone! I’ve been busy seeing and listening to things, as usual, some of which have been those mentioned below. Top 3 theatre Firstly, The Invention of Love at the Hampstead Theatr…
somewhereboy.wordpress.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
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I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
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Dune 3: If You're A Fan Of The First Two Dune Movies You're A Dickhead
July 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dune 3: If You're A Fan Of The First Two Dune Movies You're A Dickhead
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‘It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas …’
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
December 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
‘It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas …’
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
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“Now here is the lake, and I still haven’t changed.”
Name your fav film quote.
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“Now here is the lake, and I still haven’t changed.”
My most beloved film ❤️
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My most beloved film ❤️
I love this in Ivy Compton-Burnett's MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT. The 'HMM' at the bottom is the printer's way of identifying that this is gathering H of M[anservant] and M[aidservant] (pages earlier on are labelled e.g. GMM and FMM), but it looks like a sardonic commentary on the action.
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love this in Ivy Compton-Burnett's MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT. The 'HMM' at the bottom is the printer's way of identifying that this is gathering H of M[anservant] and M[aidservant] (pages earlier on are labelled e.g. GMM and FMM), but it looks like a sardonic commentary on the action.
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PSA: How to pleasure a woman
July 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
PSA: How to pleasure a woman
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When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
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December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“That’s a new silver fox! It’s stunning.”
“Thank you.”
“It must have been pretty expensive.”
“It was.”
"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-a...
“Thank you.”
“It must have been pretty expensive.”
“It was.”
"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-a...
"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
“That’s a new silver fox!
www.thechatner.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“That’s a new silver fox! It’s stunning.”
“Thank you.”
“It must have been pretty expensive.”
“It was.”
"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-a...
“Thank you.”
“It must have been pretty expensive.”
“It was.”
"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-a...