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I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Peak Backlisted! Also, the Donald Crowhurst book has gone on my list now and the book piles grow ever higher. ‘Will we never be set free?’

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 11d

When I see misspelled shopfronts, posters and what not I always think why haven’t the sign makers picked it up, at the least spell checked it. Isn’t that part of the job?

Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 12d

Sounds, and looks, lovely. Will have a go. Ta.

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely!

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

What a lovely thing to do.

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

Always a treat.

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

Just now, the last of the evening light, deep blue sky, a buttery crescent moon through the trees and a tawny owl swoops past the kitchen window. Suburban delights!

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

Did you see this today? It’s quite moving.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien

In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton

www.theguardian.com

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 13d

Have you been on the beautiful little tram to the sea yet?

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 14d

Ha! Indeed..

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 14d

Great photos, and now I’ve got Tom Waits’s Murder in the Red Barn stuck in my head..

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 17d

Godspeed to Danny Thompson. He added so much grace, beauty and guile to so many outstanding pieces of music (you could live a pretty nourishing musical life listening solely to the records he contributed to.) And an unfailingly entertaining and soulful conversationalist. One of the greats 💛

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