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I'm a featured poet at this open mic next month. Come along for pirate ballads, Pushkin sonnets and pangrams!

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Bring on the Butlerian jihad.

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I beg all men's forgiveness.

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Beware Geeks bearing grifts.

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In an unexpected kerfuffle she is seized, manhandled, vanquished and unwillingly subjugated. #sphinxy

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A girl walks her bike home at night

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Fol-de-rol, Volovodov!

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I work in Caldicot, which is a perfect anagram of 'old cacti'. Something a bit TS Eliot about that. The teachers of Caldicot Are dry as old cacti.

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But you can't blame the fires On diversity hires! Nor airborne collisions On employment decisions! And so on for the next 4 years.

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Longing for some springtime vibes

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'Kismet, Zuleika,' exclaims Sir Quentin, misapprehending which she recoils, prompting him to subjoin, 'by which I mean the devious workings of destiny.'

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His feet squelch through some invisible yet wickedly noxious ooze he judges it preferable not to visualize #sphinxy

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is so full of it

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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

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An acolyte extends his bottle, offering to give them a drink of water; woozy with thirst, Sir Quentin does not reject this proffered kindness. #sphinxy

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I've been unfortunate enough to come down with both the man-flu and a twisted mankle.

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Three years ago I was accidentally given a blu ray of Sunset Boulevard and bought a blu ray player in the sales. Many charity shop, eBay and CeX purchases later:

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Blu Ray shelfie

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Watching The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) and God, it's so so good.

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It's an odd feeling, reading Countee Cullen so skilfully adapt the language, rhythm and theme of AE Housman in such a different context. One of the best presented poetry ebooks on Gutenberg, incidentally.

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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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Top of the food chain.

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This handy 18th century cure for the King’s Evil (i.e. scrofula) argues that ‘Mice roasted, and eaten by Children, is very good’

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Why aren't there dolphins on Only Connect?

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For the worst first line prize: 'As the facts of the case were glozed, and my eyes began to glaze, even though once those same facts would have made my stomach turn, over, I began to worry that I was falling, even as PC Cartwright came up from, and pinched me on my pert little, behind.'

I'm a featured poet at this open mic next month. Come along for pirate ballads, Pushkin sonnets and pangrams!

Bring on the Butlerian jihad.

I beg all men's forgiveness.

Beware Geeks bearing grifts.

In an unexpected kerfuffle she is seized, manhandled, vanquished and unwillingly subjugated. #sphinxy

A girl walks her bike home at night

Fol-de-rol, Volovodov!

I work in Caldicot, which is a perfect anagram of 'old cacti'. Something a bit TS Eliot about that. The teachers of Caldicot Are dry as old cacti.

But you can't blame the fires On diversity hires! Nor airborne collisions On employment decisions! And so on for the next 4 years.

Longing for some springtime vibes

'Kismet, Zuleika,' exclaims Sir Quentin, misapprehending which she recoils, prompting him to subjoin, 'by which I mean the devious workings of destiny.'

His feet squelch through some invisible yet wickedly noxious ooze he judges it preferable not to visualize #sphinxy

is so full of it

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

An acolyte extends his bottle, offering to give them a drink of water; woozy with thirst, Sir Quentin does not reject this proffered kindness. #sphinxy

I've been unfortunate enough to come down with both the man-flu and a twisted mankle.

Three years ago I was accidentally given a blu ray of Sunset Boulevard and bought a blu ray player in the sales. Many charity shop, eBay and CeX purchases later:

Blu Ray shelfie

Watching The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) and God, it's so so good.

It's an odd feeling, reading Countee Cullen so skilfully adapt the language, rhythm and theme of AE Housman in such a different context. One of the best presented poetry ebooks on Gutenberg, incidentally.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Top of the food chain.

This handy 18th century cure for the King’s Evil (i.e. scrofula) argues that ‘Mice roasted, and eaten by Children, is very good’

Why aren't there dolphins on Only Connect?

For the worst first line prize: 'As the facts of the case were glozed, and my eyes began to glaze, even though once those same facts would have made my stomach turn, over, I began to worry that I was falling, even as PC Cartwright came up from, and pinched me on my pert little, behind.'

Elf on a what now?

Somehow, I can't imagine David Suchet doing this!