Nick M
@plodinnotts.bsky.social
Book hoarder, woke, old but working (mentally) when you've always wanted to be TC, occasionally had moments of being Choo-Choo but were actually Benny The Ball all along. If antifa existed, I'd join
my mate just sent me his winter fuel payment because he felt he didn't need it and i did. If anyone else wants to follow his example...
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
my mate just sent me his winter fuel payment because he felt he didn't need it and i did. If anyone else wants to follow his example...
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-."
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-."
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-."
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-."
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
#booksky #books 5928 Penguin 8967 Backcloth / Dirk Bogarde (12th post-1987) 4th volume of autobiography recasting what has gone before in the light of the people and particularly places that have shaped his life from childhood in Hampstead to rural seclusion in Provence, writing prolifically
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#booksky #books 5927 Penguin 9238 A City Called July / Howard Engel (1988) 5th outing for Canadian gumshoe Cooperman on the trail of a lawyer, missing presumed absconded with two million dollars plus of other people's money. But not all fraudsters get to enjoy their crimes with a long cool drink
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#booksky #books 5926 Penguin 8731 Runaway / Lucy Irvine (1987) her writing style grates on me although it is well-matched to her account of a fractured life seeking love and "approbation" before she took the decision to go to live with astranger on a desert island as recounted in "Castaway"
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#booksky #books 21095 Penguin 108499 Girl. Woman, Other / Baernardine Evaristo (30th post-2020, charity shop 50p) those 30 editions show the continuing power of winning the Booker Prize - but then I've loved her writing for some time, blending great warmth and smart, astringent perspectives
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#booksky #books 21094 My Next Breath / Jeremy Renner (Gallery 2025. charity shop 75p) largely distanced from popular culture, Mr Renner entered my onsciousness only through his comic book roles where he was rather charming - raising the question as to whether there's more to him than that. Unproven
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#booksky #books 21093 Mt Favourite People & Me 1978-1988/ Alan Davies (Michael Joseph 2009, charity shop 75p) even as hardened a cynic as myself can be sucked in by some carefully curated nostalgia - particularly for te tiny unifiers such as your treasured copy of "British Hit Singles" falling apart
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#booksky #books 21093 Mt Favourite People & Me 1978-1988/ Alan Davies (Michael Joseph 2009, charity shop 75p) even as hardened a cynic as myself can be sucked in by some carefully curated nostalgia - particularly for te tiny unifiers such as your treasured copy of "British Hit Singles" falling apart
#booksky #books 21092 Penguin 15955 The Railway Station Man / Jennifer Johnston (4th post-1989, charity shop £1) TV movie tie-in for a forgottwen Donald Sutherland/Julie Christie reunion in the sadness and isolation of a deserted old station in the empty countryside, elegantly captured in the gaps
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#bookskt #books 21091 Lamentation / C J Sansom (Pan 2014, charity shop) I've probably got all the Shardlake series & have started reading them and greatly enjoyed the experience - they are, however, hidden & dispersed around the flat like horcruxes and I can't read more until I get them all together
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#bookskt #books 21091 Lamentation / C J Sansom (Pan 2014, charity shop) I've probably got all the Shardlake series & have started reading them and greatly enjoyed the experience - they are, however, hidden & dispersed around the flat like horcruxes and I can't read more until I get them all together
#booksky #books 21090 Wonderful Town : New York Stories From "The New Yorker" / Davis Remnick (12th post-2000, Oxfam £2.99) high calibre castlist of contributors to anothology going back to Parker and Thurber, mises the grubbier sides of the city given the magazine's target demographic
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
