Michele one L

I know I’m a bit of a nitwit on here, but look at my massive disembodied head on a screen, being taken seriously by the man of the moment.

Not my finest hour, but if you happen across a cultural icon while taking a short cut to your French class, you take a sneaky picture no? I think she rumbled me. Her annoyance was palpable. Soz Patti.

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#BuyMyFuckingBook™ 🪩

4am garden drama

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

Happy Sundays.

The happiest of #BookshopDays to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social who have the class, balls and wit to stock #MyFuckingBook™ 📚🪩🕺

Great. Thanks for letting me know.

So what do you do with all the random bits of paperwork you unearth when clearing your parent’s flat? You turn them into a lampshade, that’s what.

Had the best quote ever for #MyFuckingBook™ from good old @kitdewaal.com 💃🪩🕺

The dog is being serenaded.

This is going to be ace, I just know it. #BuyJeffsFuckingBook™

Brad Pitt has done a coffee ad and it seems the dog has a lot to say about it.

My old gallerist posted a photo on Instagram of a long forgotten piece of work. So this is where my head was at in 1986 apparently.

Definitely a Glitterball kinda day here in Derbados today!!! 🪩 [ @michelehowarth.com ] #booksky #indiebookstore #indiebookshop #books #derby

Comrades! If you don’t want your reading led by focus groups, over-promoted by marketing teams & placed in Waterstones windows thru the power of big bucks, then take a trip to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social - a shop dedicated to indie books that fall outside of the mainstream. #BuyMyFuckingBook™

A friend ripped out a cupboard and found me stuffed down behind it. Particularly weird cos she didn’t know me or the cupboard in 1989.

Of all the things I’ve discovered while clearing out my parent’s flat, it’s the debris I’ve found while reupholstering an armchair that has me feeling closest to them and my childhood. #TheWombles3p

Morning

Whadaya mean, no such word. I use it every day.

We’ve just had a Libertine staying for a few days. Thankfully not *that* one. Or the other one for that matter. No, we had the nice one.

More frightened furniture. #EstateAgentPix

Happy birthday Herzog the dog. Ten today and one of the great loves of my life.

Because sometimes a chocolate brownie isn’t enough.

Frightened furniture. #EstateAgentPix

Rain at last

Nellie Pledge.

Week one of Number Ten in the North. It’s going great.

Fully renovated and looking very pleased with herself.

When I was 15 I went by myself to see these guys at the Liverpool Empire. My dad waited in the car outside. Who’d have thought - certainly not 15 year old me - that all these years later they’d be in me house.

I’ve been censored! #BUYMYF*****GBOOK™

Reminded that Widdecombe’s PA was Black Grape’s former manager. #Fact

Eric and Ern in the days when a heatwave saw little more than the loosening of a tie.

Early 90s. With my then co-writer. Trying to write…

Not sure what happened in this room, but I fear it involved a gun. #EstateAgentPix

Someone’s giving away yellow Le Creuset pans on the local giveaway site and the whole town has lost its shit.

A million songs have been written about young love, but how many about enduring love within a long marriage? I tell you how many. ONE*. This one. Happy birthday Robert Forster. *I might be wrong, but you get my drift.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

I’m wondering what’s in the bucket... #EstateAgentPix

I made my dog into a table lamp.

My grandparents, togged up proper on the beach.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

What’s he doing now???

So the local bookshop might not have been particularly supportive of my book, but the pizza place has got right behind it. #BuyMyFuckingBook™

Don’t bother asking me for owt over the next week or so, cos I’m busy looking after this guy.

I don’t want to buy this house, but I would quite like to meet the people who live there. #EstateAgentPix

Been partying with one of my most favourite people on the planet. Happy 87th birthday Brucie.

Seems bookshop.org have decided to list my book again. They’ll probably change their minds so if you fancy supporting an indie bookshop, do it soon before they bump me again. Alternatively support an indie me & buy direct michelehowarth.com You’ll get it quicker & the code FACEFLANNEL gives 10% off.