Inigo Purcell
@inigopurcell.bsky.social
Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
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inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Turns out that with a cardigan and a long coat the response to this looks from friends is "So, how has recording a folk rock album in 1972 been going"
December 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Turns out that with a cardigan and a long coat the response to this looks from friends is "So, how has recording a folk rock album in 1972 been going"
Scarf and hat pictured here.
October 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Scarf and hat pictured here.
This is such a great encapsulation of what the matter at the heart of the whole series is.
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is such a great encapsulation of what the matter at the heart of the whole series is.
Partner did then also find a pumpkin which was so much easier to carve.
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Partner did then also find a pumpkin which was so much easier to carve.
The turnip I carved in 2020. (We thought we would not be able to find a pumpkin and my partner did not know the "turnips are a bastard to carve" thing. My hands can still feel the joint pain from carving it.)
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The turnip I carved in 2020. (We thought we would not be able to find a pumpkin and my partner did not know the "turnips are a bastard to carve" thing. My hands can still feel the joint pain from carving it.)
I think it's a stylised version of a coat with a collar like this. There was quite a vogue for men's overcoats with a lot of fur at the time.
September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I think it's a stylised version of a coat with a collar like this. There was quite a vogue for men's overcoats with a lot of fur at the time.
Procedure done so I am now waiting for partner to pick me up while looking at a window which is not a window, it is a view of elsewhere in Chester. Which is somewhat annoying me in my current weakened by pain state.
September 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Procedure done so I am now waiting for partner to pick me up while looking at a window which is not a window, it is a view of elsewhere in Chester. Which is somewhat annoying me in my current weakened by pain state.
Two more Branwen photos, one of her relaxing and one of her being a stern taskmistress.
September 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Two more Branwen photos, one of her relaxing and one of her being a stern taskmistress.
Pliny who was very soft and cuddly
September 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Pliny who was very soft and cuddly
Vimes being his strange goblin self
September 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Vimes being his strange goblin self
She is. Named after a figure in the Mabinogion (by my partner before we met). She's a really great cat but a very vocal one if she wants something
September 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
She is. Named after a figure in the Mabinogion (by my partner before we met). She's a really great cat but a very vocal one if she wants something
This bit is weirdly infuriating.
August 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This bit is weirdly infuriating.
It gets worse. She did. A perfectly good, nice, maybe slightly untrendy name from which one can source some nicknames.
(Also names need to be a bit formal. They will, godwilling, be attached to a grown up at some point)
(Also names need to be a bit formal. They will, godwilling, be attached to a grown up at some point)
August 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It gets worse. She did. A perfectly good, nice, maybe slightly untrendy name from which one can source some nicknames.
(Also names need to be a bit formal. They will, godwilling, be attached to a grown up at some point)
(Also names need to be a bit formal. They will, godwilling, be attached to a grown up at some point)
Finished this. Really enjoyed it and am now rather sad that I have run out of Helen Fielding novels to read, particularly the non-Bridget Jones ones. Do think she might be one of the great novelist of the 90s and 2000s
August 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Finished this. Really enjoyed it and am now rather sad that I have run out of Helen Fielding novels to read, particularly the non-Bridget Jones ones. Do think she might be one of the great novelist of the 90s and 2000s
I feel like a lesbian historical society should set up their headquarters here.
August 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I feel like a lesbian historical society should set up their headquarters here.
My cleaning products insisted on being taken for cocktails before being used, but will soon be confined while using them #ConfinedCocktails
August 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My cleaning products insisted on being taken for cocktails before being used, but will soon be confined while using them #ConfinedCocktails
Have B&M considered doing a polari themed pop-up with their high camp in house cleaning brand ('Fabulosa'). Because I sort of think they should?
August 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Have B&M considered doing a polari themed pop-up with their high camp in house cleaning brand ('Fabulosa'). Because I sort of think they should?
Not the best photo of the painting because of glass and reflection but loved this portrait of Alan Garner at home which is on display at the Grosvenor museum
July 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Not the best photo of the painting because of glass and reflection but loved this portrait of Alan Garner at home which is on display at the Grosvenor museum
When I was 17 some friends and I attempted to read the entirety of Cicero's Pro Milone aloud out here, got told we couldn't because it was too like a performance for which we would require permission, so went and read it more quietly near the Roman funerary urns instead.
June 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When I was 17 some friends and I attempted to read the entirety of Cicero's Pro Milone aloud out here, got told we couldn't because it was too like a performance for which we would require permission, so went and read it more quietly near the Roman funerary urns instead.
Train/waiting around reading options. All rereads I think, although I have only dipped into the Gioia before rather than read it through.
June 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Train/waiting around reading options. All rereads I think, although I have only dipped into the Gioia before rather than read it through.
I also had this Jules et Jim poster because it is great
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I also had this Jules et Jim poster because it is great