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Best-selling children's author. Complete idiot. Mostly Dad Jokes. Rep. Claire Wilson - RCW. Also Production Manager at Hachette Children’s. Check out my books at https://tinyurl.com/39cc3xy5 he/him Ghostwriter. School visits. Workshops. DM for more info
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Audi drivers are even worse than BMW drivers. There. I’ve said it.

It’s almost as if good foreign relations between countries is largely dependent on whether or not the respective countries are ruled by authoritarians

There’s a genre of autobiography which reads: “It was 1962. I was 24 & had jst purchased my first house in St John’s Wood. Thinking I’d better earn a bit of cash, I wrote to the BBC &was invited to meet the head of drama. The following week I was offered a 13 part series- v reluctantly I might add!”

Who’s ready for Dad Bod Summer?

I worked in a Soho office building with a recording studio upstairs so we’d often see celebrities there for voice work. Once, coming back from lunch, I encountered a frustrated Roger Moore pushing at the front door. “You need to pull,” I said. He frowned at me and said, “I already tried that!”

Correct

A friend of mine has formed a startup business selling nursery plants. Early days, so far she's just looking for seed money

I’ll end a sentence with a preposition whenever the fuck I feel like it for.

Congratulations to Ross Montgomery @mossmontmomery.bsky.social‬, winner of the 2025 FCBG Children's Book Award with I AM REBEL 👏 #FCBGCBA25 #KidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/ross-montgom...

Mevagissy harbour. Taken as we were coming back from the pub.

In Cornwall innit

Socceroos is the stupidest sports team name. Imagine trying to pick someone up in a club by telling them you’re a Socceroo

Am I a bad person for finding Trump extremely funny?

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

I think we lost the great what does staycation mean war. We go again.

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Hello!

David Lynch told me with his last breath that the best film ever was Thor

My wife says the volume of wine I pour into my glass is vulgar but I think it’s just efficient

OK hear me out: spray gravy. Spravy.

Morning! I have finally started a new author newsletter over on Substack and the first post is now LIVE! open.substack.com/pub/bendavis...

They’ve been watching a bird for ten minutes

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by David Melling from Michael Rosen’s picturebook Snow White and the Seven Bears. Amusing caricature, and digital textures of tree bark in shade, pink-purple-orange leaves, and lichen on stone. Harper Collins pb on 5 June. @mellingart.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

when spaghetti worries that it doesn't really belong that's called impasta syndrome

this should automatically happen when you’re tempted to look at a muted reply

You’re telling me this beast is a mister?

Imagine you were an author and had a 10-year association with a publisher and wrote 8 books for them, all of which were sold to at least 1 foreign market, 2 of which were best-sellers and that publisher didn’t invite you to their 10-year anniversary party. Would you feel a teensy bit miffed?

Watching The Last of Us episodes set in Seattle and wondering how the Crane brothers coped with the mushroom zombies

And Jill came tumbling after And broke his crown Jack fell down To fetch a pail of water Went up the hill Jack and Jill. A nursery rhyme by Christopher Nolan

London has become a cycling city archive.is/8YEjR

persuaded a nursery rhyme cow to let me ride on her back needless to say I'm over the moon