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Seven in fourteen years. There’s no time off for good behaviour in this lark

🎶A change in the weather, is known to be extreme🎶

Sold. Oh, wait

Me. I used to just lie on my back screaming for milk

How many Wodehouse novels is that?

Actually curious about what the government considers a ready supply of cash? I have a piggy bank full of pound coins. Will that do?

Burned all my notebooks, what goid are notebooks? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The only time I will ever write: Today, sir, you win the internet 🏆

I’ve 10 US events in Nov, most with the added bonus of Lucy Caldwell talking more sense than I usually talk. They’re all but one up on my website now www.jancarson.co.uk If you’re in NYC, Miami, LA, Santa Barbara, Ojai, Washington DC, Philadelphia or Hoboken pop along and say hi. Please share.

“The future of the pint” gets my vote

I won't waste my time writing.

Look, I may not have that many years left, but I’d happily forego a couple if we could just skip to the bit where he’s no longer President

I am often critical of the bureaucratic instinct to dress up plain truths in unnecessary verbiage, but…

Confirmed: anyone who uses the phrase 'Spooky Season' will be stripped of the right to vote

Look, like any sane person I welcome the effort to make trains and buses quieter, but as a regular train user I have to say the tannoy announcements are invasive and infantilising and need to go too.

My fruitfulness? Mellow

Happy publication day, Rob Palk! 🦡 Animal Lovers is out today: a very funny, quietly devastating novel about a man whose wife leaves him for the badgers. ‘Hilarious, poignant’ – Daily Mail www.saltpublishing.com/products/ani... #AnimalLovers #NewBooks #IndiePublishing

We have always been at war with Oceania

89% water based plant

D.I.V.O.R.C.E?

This Tristram Shandy re-write looks great

It’s a beautiful morning in Cork city centre

On this day…

Anyone here going to be in Cork tonight/tomorrow? www.corkshortstory.net/saturday.html

We’re thrilled to be presenting 4 HOWL contributors at the Cork International Short Story Festival tomorrow at 2:30pm at Cork City Library. This event is completely free. We’d love to see you there, and at the many wonderful events afterwards! @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Looking forward to todays programme starting in the Cork City Library at 2.30pm - full programme information www.munsterlit.ie #corkevents

I think you’ll find it’s worse than that

(I’ve Spent the) Last Year in Marienbad for Tax Purposes

The Klondike gold rush

It’s really not all about you, Chris

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Jesus: It was only three days. Interviewer: And? Jesus: And I was dead, for Christ’s sake!

no one can calibrate how successful the interference was but of course there was interference, people

I find Kirkdale’s regular posts mark the passing of the hours in much the same way as the bells of a mediaeval monastery

Why are we like this? Is it original sin, or have we finally invented a few of our own?

A few hours, EE? The anticipation is killing me!

Can AI feel pain? Not nearly enough

Basic to do list

Ironically, this is the third time I’ve seen this sentence today

Surely the worst result was when he won?

On current form I assume the US firing squad is going to miss?

Three seasons in one leaf

Still holding out for the FIFA Prize in Literature