Richard Smyth
@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social
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First game of football since, what, June? Pray for your elderly pal.
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Join us. JOIN US.
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And four days after that I'll be in the Hancock Museum, talking to @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social about his many books on natural history and the natural world, why North East nature is just better, and his new project on the political history of conservationism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-sm...
Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large
An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council Room
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2012, kicking the shit out of some Nature.
Me aged 34, in a field, kicking a thistle. Different times.
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Monitoring the QTs on this purely to single out and judge all the fussy eaters I'm following.
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Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand
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On why short stories are easy, why reading in the pub is good, and why there aren't any happy endings.
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Here’s Richard Smyth - @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social - answering our Q&A on reading, writing, and his story ‘Chalklands’, which we’ve just published as a Little Uncertainty:
Q & A with Richard Smyth.
Richard Smyth answers some questions for us about writing, reading, and his short story 'Chalklands'.
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“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
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Fearlessly spitting dad-truths.
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On why short stories are easy, why reading in the pub is good, and why there aren't any happy endings.
uncertainstories.com
Here’s Richard Smyth - @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social - answering our Q&A on reading, writing, and his story ‘Chalklands’, which we’ve just published as a Little Uncertainty:
Q & A with Richard Smyth.
Richard Smyth answers some questions for us about writing, reading, and his short story 'Chalklands'.
www.uncertainstories.com
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This is one week today. Tickets have been quickly going without us really pushing it.

If you want to come, don't hesitate!

Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/alphabetti-t...
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We loved this, but
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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"Go pot" is a new name for it but I still think it's unhygienic to eat your breakfast on it.
BREAKFAST ON THE GO POT
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I don't know if anyone used to read the IOYC blog but the first line here is in note-perfect IOYC-ese and I'm in tears.
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Trump: "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."
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I don't think anyone else read this hilarious blog back in the day but Trump slips into this exact register all the time and it's so funny I can't stand it. postmoronic.blogspot.com/2005/05/
I'M ON YOUR COMPUTER: May 2005
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Yes! This jumped out at me too. Brilliant.
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Whenever I read one of these pieces I find it helpful to mentally replace each use of the word "birdwatching" (or "building model railways" or whatever it is) with "having a big shit".
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Obviously this is just my way of telling you my son and I set a new catch record (155).