Tobias Sturt
@redskelington.bsky.social
Editor of http://www.themetropolitan.uk, writer of http://addtwodigital.com/book, creator of http://christmasstories.co.uk.
We're exactly halfway through this year's Christmas story and Alfie, who has taken a seasonal job packing boxes, is about to take a leap into the mysterious depths of the warehouse.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We're exactly halfway through this year's Christmas story and Alfie, who has taken a seasonal job packing boxes, is about to take a leap into the mysterious depths of the warehouse.
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This year's Christmas story is about a man who constantly confuses technology for magic, but then what could be more more magical than a seasonal story delivered instantly, for free, cirectly to your ears?
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December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This year's Christmas story is about a man who constantly confuses technology for magic, but then what could be more more magical than a seasonal story delivered instantly, for free, cirectly to your ears?
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Whatever this cold / flu is, it’s taken a turn for the worse and I’ve had to abandon all pretence of work and comfort myself by watching this incisive documentary on the political instability in Freedonia
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Whatever this cold / flu is, it’s taken a turn for the worse and I’ve had to abandon all pretence of work and comfort myself by watching this incisive documentary on the political instability in Freedonia
Every year I write a Christmas story and then I lock my friend Jon in a box and make him read it into a microphone. Fortunately Jon is tolerant, professional and, even better, an extraordinarily good actor. But don't take my word for it, listen to this year's story here:
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December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Every year I write a Christmas story and then I lock my friend Jon in a box and make him read it into a microphone. Fortunately Jon is tolerant, professional and, even better, an extraordinarily good actor. But don't take my word for it, listen to this year's story here:
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An audiobook advent calendar: a Christmas story released one short episode a day on the run-up to Christmas. This year's story is up to episode 9 and things are getting dramatic in the warehouse.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
An audiobook advent calendar: a Christmas story released one short episode a day on the run-up to Christmas. This year's story is up to episode 9 and things are getting dramatic in the warehouse.
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Every year I write a Christmas Story that we then serialise as a podcast of 24 episodes. This year's is 'The Wish List', the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Every year I write a Christmas Story that we then serialise as a podcast of 24 episodes. This year's is 'The Wish List', the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
Subscribe here: buff.ly/5sUTgEh
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Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
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Item 6 : Alfie wishes to have a flat in the roof of a warehouse.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job in a warehouse, only to discover that it contains a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
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Item 5 : Alfie wishes to see the roof, please.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal packing job at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
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Item 4 : Alfie wishes to find a present suitable for someone living in a warehouse.
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christmas story: 'The Wish List'. The story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Item 3: Alfie wishes to know who returned his security fob.
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Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Christmas story! 'The Wish List' is the story of Alfie, who takes a seasonal job packing boxes at an e-commerce company, only to discover that the warehouse contain a good deal more than just presents.
Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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Item 2: Alfie wishes to get inside where it's warm.
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December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
December 1st! That means it must be time for the first episode of this year's Christmas Story. 'The Wish List'.
Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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Item 1: Alfie wishes he could have his security fob back, please.
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One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of my favourite things round Rame Head is this gate, hidden by ivy on a muddy, forgotten track and so obviously a fairy trick. One taste of their scones and you’ll be ensorcelled into serving in their tea rooms forever.
There’s a business moose loose aboot this hoose
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
There’s a business moose loose aboot this hoose
These new LED babies are too bright
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These new LED babies are too bright
What better preparation for the horrors of the day than facing the grinning imp Trixie over the breakfast table?
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What better preparation for the horrors of the day than facing the grinning imp Trixie over the breakfast table?
Nice of my hotel to offer Gollum work experience writing the breakfast signage
October 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nice of my hotel to offer Gollum work experience writing the breakfast signage
And so we say farewell once more to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And so we say farewell once more to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
Recipes always feel like the perfect candidate for information design and this splendid app is a definite contender: it formats any recipe into a distinctive visual structure - here's a house favourite, for example, Felicity Cloake's Perfect Vegetarian Chilli:
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August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Recipes always feel like the perfect candidate for information design and this splendid app is a definite contender: it formats any recipe into a distinctive visual structure - here's a house favourite, for example, Felicity Cloake's Perfect Vegetarian Chilli:
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I wrote about 'Catcher in the Rye' for The Metropolitan this week, a book I adored as a teenager, and was delighted to discover it rewards reading as an adult too
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August 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I wrote about 'Catcher in the Rye' for The Metropolitan this week, a book I adored as a teenager, and was delighted to discover it rewards reading as an adult too
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I've written about the '80s TV show 'The Beiderbecke Affair' for The Metropolitan this week, and how it gave me a lifelong love of the music of Bix Beiderbecke.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've written about the '80s TV show 'The Beiderbecke Affair' for The Metropolitan this week, and how it gave me a lifelong love of the music of Bix Beiderbecke.
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Considering that *most* podcasts are by and about bald men with glasses, I feel that that's a pretty good ranking, frankly.
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Considering that *most* podcasts are by and about bald men with glasses, I feel that that's a pretty good ranking, frankly.
And so we say farewell to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And so we say farewell to Luxembourg, city of contrasts
I know a spot where the spaniel goes
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
June 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I know a spot where the spaniel goes
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
Beneath where the Japanese maple grows
Where ivy twines about his ears
Amid roses thornier than Shakespeare’s.
There William sleeps, sometime of the day
Until called to walk, and then: away!
I wrote about The Goons for The Metropolitan this week, one of those childhood experiences that I suspect has had an indelible effect on the way I think and write.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I wrote about The Goons for The Metropolitan this week, one of those childhood experiences that I suspect has had an indelible effect on the way I think and write.
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