John Goodrum
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Early stroll. I am briefly defined by a car’s headlights. A red plastic spade leaning against a wall. A passenger on the bus is almost as big as his headphones. It is as though this morning has been found in a secret pocket. That still cat.
January 21, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Early stroll. I am briefly defined by a car’s headlights. A red plastic spade leaning against a wall. A passenger on the bus is almost as big as his headphones. It is as though this morning has been found in a secret pocket. That still cat.
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First cup of tea: and then I woke up and it definitely wasn’t a dream.
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
First cup of tea: and then I woke up and it definitely wasn’t a dream.
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Early stroll. Those clouds look like paintings of old snow. Two leaning streetlights like cocktail sticks in a pot. A late/early Christmas tree in a window. Am I on the fringes of that passing motorbike’s dream? I break a puddle’s fragile window.
January 20, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Early stroll. Those clouds look like paintings of old snow. Two leaning streetlights like cocktail sticks in a pot. A late/early Christmas tree in a window. Am I on the fringes of that passing motorbike’s dream? I break a puddle’s fragile window.
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Lovely article in @BritTheatreGuid by #SteveOrme about our upcoming 2026 tour of #TheHauntedBride based on a delectably eerie tale by #CharlesDickens Only a month to go till 1st dates @NTRLincoln & @Blackfriarsbox! Link to tickets at end of the article www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
January 19, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Lovely article in @BritTheatreGuid by #SteveOrme about our upcoming 2026 tour of #TheHauntedBride based on a delectably eerie tale by #CharlesDickens Only a month to go till 1st dates @NTRLincoln & @Blackfriarsbox! Link to tickets at end of the article www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
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No early stroll today; just a galumphing totter to a welcoming train!
January 19, 2026 at 5:03 AM
No early stroll today; just a galumphing totter to a welcoming train!
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'We've got to stand up to Donald Trump, he's a bully'
Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast the UK should cancel the planned visit by King Charles to the United States in the row over the US President's threat over Greenland
Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast the UK should cancel the planned visit by King Charles to the United States in the row over the US President's threat over Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 AM
'We've got to stand up to Donald Trump, he's a bully'
Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast the UK should cancel the planned visit by King Charles to the United States in the row over the US President's threat over Greenland
Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast the UK should cancel the planned visit by King Charles to the United States in the row over the US President's threat over Greenland
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Looking forward to my trip to the Festival Hall later to introduce the TS Eliot Prize readings. I’d better polish up my gags and aphorisms!
January 18, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to my trip to the Festival Hall later to introduce the TS Eliot Prize readings. I’d better polish up my gags and aphorisms!
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First cup of tea:
I’ll just set sail
On this inland sea
Made just for me,
Just for me.
I’ll just set sail
On this inland sea
Made just for me,
Just for me.
January 18, 2026 at 7:03 AM
First cup of tea:
I’ll just set sail
On this inland sea
Made just for me,
Just for me.
I’ll just set sail
On this inland sea
Made just for me,
Just for me.
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I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!
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Site visit for the opera (Salome) I’m directing this spring. Know where I am ?
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Site visit for the opera (Salome) I’m directing this spring. Know where I am ?
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Isla drew this marvellous tiger!
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Isla drew this marvellous tiger!
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Early stroll. That dropped sock is a foot long. Blue bins like geometric representations of summer sky. That parked car is usually facing the other way. Birdsong’s vivid aubade. If I name that ill-lit bus shelter as weird it becomes weird.
January 15, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Early stroll. That dropped sock is a foot long. Blue bins like geometric representations of summer sky. That parked car is usually facing the other way. Birdsong’s vivid aubade. If I name that ill-lit bus shelter as weird it becomes weird.
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First cup of tea: just a calm in a teacup.
January 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
First cup of tea: just a calm in a teacup.
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Theatre news: Rumpus to tour “spine-chilling” Haunted Bride
Derbyshire touring company Rumpus is to go on the road with a revival of The Haunted Bride by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’s To Be Read at Dusk.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
Derbyshire touring company Rumpus is to go on the road with a revival of The Haunted Bride by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’s To Be Read at Dusk.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
Theatre news: Rumpus to tour “spine-chilling” Haunted Bride
Derbyshire touring company Rumpus is to go on the road with a revival of The Haunted Bride by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’s To Be Read at Dusk.
www.britishtheatreguide.info
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Theatre news: Rumpus to tour “spine-chilling” Haunted Bride
Derbyshire touring company Rumpus is to go on the road with a revival of The Haunted Bride by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’s To Be Read at Dusk.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
Derbyshire touring company Rumpus is to go on the road with a revival of The Haunted Bride by John Goodrum based on Charles Dickens’s To Be Read at Dusk.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/rumpus-...
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Holmes is back this spring on the trail of a shadowy figure whose whose designs threaten to destabilise government, monarchy and Empire. The Hunt for Moriarty is back in theatres from next week!
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show... #sherlockholmes
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show... #sherlockholmes
January 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Holmes is back this spring on the trail of a shadowy figure whose whose designs threaten to destabilise government, monarchy and Empire. The Hunt for Moriarty is back in theatres from next week!
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show... #sherlockholmes
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show... #sherlockholmes
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Listening to a conversation behind me yesterday : ‘we’ve been to a recording of the Graham Norton show. There was a comedian with huge teeth, a woman who was in something called Wicked, Chris somebody who’s big in Hollywood and the Vicar of Dibley’. Bliss.
January 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Listening to a conversation behind me yesterday : ‘we’ve been to a recording of the Graham Norton show. There was a comedian with huge teeth, a woman who was in something called Wicked, Chris somebody who’s big in Hollywood and the Vicar of Dibley’. Bliss.
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Happy Spooky New Year to everyone. We're delighted to be back in 2026 with a spine-chilling play based on a delectably eerie tale by Charles Dickens ... #TheHauntedBride tours Feb - April & Sept - Oct. Don't miss it! Full details & ticket links at www.rumpustheatrecompany.co.uk/current.html
January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Happy Spooky New Year to everyone. We're delighted to be back in 2026 with a spine-chilling play based on a delectably eerie tale by Charles Dickens ... #TheHauntedBride tours Feb - April & Sept - Oct. Don't miss it! Full details & ticket links at www.rumpustheatrecompany.co.uk/current.html
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My thoughts on this week’s cultural highlights can be heard by clicking on the link ! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Front Row - Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet - BBC Sounds
Plus reviews of the novel Palaver by Bryan Washington and Sheridan Smith in Woman in Mind.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
My thoughts on this week’s cultural highlights can be heard by clicking on the link ! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Happy new year one and all. Here's just a glimpse at what we're bringing to the stage in 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Happy new year one and all. Here's just a glimpse at what we're bringing to the stage in 2026!
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It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
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Theatre news: Stage Awards shortlist announced
The awards "celebrate excellence" from theatres, producers and PR teams for their work during 2025.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/stage-a...
The awards "celebrate excellence" from theatres, producers and PR teams for their work during 2025.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/stage-a...
Theatre news: Stage Awards shortlist announced
The awards
www.britishtheatreguide.info
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Theatre news: Stage Awards shortlist announced
The awards "celebrate excellence" from theatres, producers and PR teams for their work during 2025.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/stage-a...
The awards "celebrate excellence" from theatres, producers and PR teams for their work during 2025.
www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/stage-a...
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Puzzling over what to get the Sherlock lover in your life this Christmas? How about the gift of theatre with tickets to SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HUNT FOR MORIARTY - touring nationally throughout the spring! Find a performance near you:
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show...
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show...
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Puzzling over what to get the Sherlock lover in your life this Christmas? How about the gift of theatre with tickets to SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HUNT FOR MORIARTY - touring nationally throughout the spring! Find a performance near you:
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show...
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show...
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OTD in 1950 Irish playwright, critic & activist #BernardShaw died aged 94. Author of over 60 plays including Man and Superman, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan. He was the first person to win both a NobelPrize and an Oscar. His words continue to challenge, charm & change the world #ShawSociety
November 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
OTD in 1950 Irish playwright, critic & activist #BernardShaw died aged 94. Author of over 60 plays including Man and Superman, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan. He was the first person to win both a NobelPrize and an Oscar. His words continue to challenge, charm & change the world #ShawSociety
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“We’re being honest about the challenges the country faces” Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM tells Sophy Ridge
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“We’re being honest about the challenges the country faces” Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM tells Sophy Ridge
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“Did the Chancellor mislead the public in the run up to the budget?” - Sally Nugent
“No, of course she didn’t” - Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM
#bbcbreakfast
“No, of course she didn’t” - Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM
#bbcbreakfast
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“Did the Chancellor mislead the public in the run up to the budget?” - Sally Nugent
“No, of course she didn’t” - Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM
#bbcbreakfast
“No, of course she didn’t” - Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM
#bbcbreakfast