Justine Crow

Do join us at Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace on Wednesday 18 November for a very special event when we welcome chef, author and owner of the Lebnani restaurant, Jad Youssef, for a night of storytelling and tasters from his cookbook. www.outsavvy.com/event/40661/...

Bad news: the BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a huge blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save it 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Demand that the PM blocks the new North Sea drilling sites in the Jackdaw and Rosebanks fields: 38d.gs/NorthSea_SMC...

Next stop: South Norwood! Tomorrow! Goblins! #comics #zines #goblins

Robeson performed in Reading again in the 1960 - find out more in our blog post here www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/robeson-reading-coming-home-project

Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew

Wodehouse said it best (see alt text)

Woke beach

Emptied the mousetraps

When the app opens the front camera without warning you

We often forget that authors are people too. They're driven by a need for readers, the search for some kind of recognition and the desire 'to make it'. Scammers know it though. And they hope they will get an author at a low moment that will sway them towards the scam. Keep that in mind.

“It doesn’t make any difference to the people around here, other than the racism it’s brought out in people,” says Jacqui the landlady of the pub, adding the village has been weaponised by the far-right

Dolly. Raised the bar for shortarses world wide. Made us all taller.

This thing seems to be out in the open now, so even though publication’s eight months away, let’s drum up some early interest, shall we? Wayfarers is out next April. Here’s the cover.

Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...

Bonnie Tyler would have loved this

lod riddle

[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.

God. I LOVE Hattie Jacques.

Ah bless #Outspan and the wonderful eve we spent watching #Once

Literally

I might have to go to bed just to ensure everyone else gets to see a goal

Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dickon-edw...

We are having homemade Mexican grub tonight and I feel sure that over in Tijuana, they will be eating roast beef and yorkies with a ton of gravy

Oh look New book

Nasushiobara's rice paddy art returns for its sixteenth year, with two fields planted in eight varieties of coloured rice. One site portrays comedy duos "Uji Koji" and "Kaminari" with Mount Fuji; the other depicts Chika Ozeki and Rie Utagokoro.

Looks like our overgrooming dickhead of a cat, Joanie, was a bit hot this morning. Like being in the breeze with no pants on.

Going to stick my neck out here and suggest that murdering animals is not, in fact, an art.

Most magnificentest signage. Never change, Penge

Look what someone did on the shop typewriter

Wet dad city in the shop today. They are all a bit damp too.

Anyone in today wearing an Arsenal shirt gets an extra special stamp on their paper bag

Eaglessss! For my old pal @booksellercrow.bsky.social whom I miss daily.

UTTERLY APPALLING! How can Thomas Touché leave these players out of his squad: Jerry Maguire Cole Porter Emerson Lake & Palmer Terence Trent Darby (County) Sandie Shaw? Yet he takes The Rolling Stones Tim Rice and Tony Toney? Disgusting! I blame Rachel Reeves.😡 #SortItOutStarmer

HELLO sorry didn’t mean to shout Anyway, this coming Thursday I’m having a chat with Melissa Harrison about her ridiculously good new book, The Given World. It’s at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace and you also get a drink. Do come, and do tell people. www.outsavvy.com/event/34573/...

Who says education is wasted on millennials… Now THIS is what I call wfh

So happy for them. And I was that worried

Chuffed to bits to be the guest on Helen Zaltzman’s amazing @allusionistshow.bsky.social talking about suburbia www.theallusionist.org/suburbia

¿Recuerdas a Clippy, la mascota de Microsoft Word? Así está ahora.

Omg the students nextdoor are having a full on ding dong about boxing and one of them is yelling Conor McGregor is the greatest and I’m thinking I may have to ring the bell and swing a punch

i kinda wanna get this to 1000 quote posts just for fun. so close!!

Church organist here. Lovely old dear in the congregation looks like Ken Dodd. Every time she comes in to a service I try and secretly play 'Happiness'. Nobody has spotted this yet.

Also recommended: buying our #CPFC FA Cup print and #zine, which includes a £5 donation to the wonderful Palace For Life Foundation. Head to colossive.com/product/cpfc...

Pleased to have a poem in here. It’s a good ‘un and for a vital cause