Richard
@ashcroftethics.bsky.social
Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.
Times are tough. You’re still entitled to beauty. Try this.
February 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Times are tough. You’re still entitled to beauty. Try this.
As it’s now 2nd January and we’ve resumed misery and gloom as Standard Operating Procedure, can I take this opportunity to say I had a really good Christmas book haul. The MSM omitted to tell you.
January 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM
As it’s now 2nd January and we’ve resumed misery and gloom as Standard Operating Procedure, can I take this opportunity to say I had a really good Christmas book haul. The MSM omitted to tell you.
It’s time! Merry Christmas everyone.
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It’s time! Merry Christmas everyone.
Holiday bookpile. Leith’s book is excellent, and I’m enjoying Clay, MR James and The Cruel Sea. The others come later. And who knows what the book angel may bring overnight…
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Holiday bookpile. Leith’s book is excellent, and I’m enjoying Clay, MR James and The Cruel Sea. The others come later. And who knows what the book angel may bring overnight…
What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
I am enjoying this tremendously joyful and optimistic book. @astrokatie.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I am enjoying this tremendously joyful and optimistic book. @astrokatie.com
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Tiepolo, Virtue and Nobility Putting Ignorance to Flight (at Dulwich Picture Gallery).
Take that, modern world.
Take that, modern world.
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Tiepolo, Virtue and Nobility Putting Ignorance to Flight (at Dulwich Picture Gallery).
Take that, modern world.
Take that, modern world.
Post a perfect album from 1989.
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989.
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media.
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media.
Dave Ball. Like any 80s kid I danced to Soft Cell. But I remember him most fondly for this. RIP
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Dave Ball. Like any 80s kid I danced to Soft Cell. But I remember him most fondly for this. RIP
Schumpeterian meme.
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Schumpeterian meme.
Cooler than you, even while napping. Maybe even because napping. #catontheinternet
August 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Cooler than you, even while napping. Maybe even because napping. #catontheinternet
Cat on the internet
July 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Cat on the internet
A corner that held them. (Whitby Abbey)
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A corner that held them. (Whitby Abbey)
No one looks good in a beret, except maybe The Security of the First World
July 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
No one looks good in a beret, except maybe The Security of the First World
If I see one more illiterate screed decrying facism, I’m going to start a petition to put LP Hartley on the national curriculum.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
If I see one more illiterate screed decrying facism, I’m going to start a petition to put LP Hartley on the national curriculum.
Not a book about civil engineering. Alas.
June 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Not a book about civil engineering. Alas.