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Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England 'You're one of us now.' - Doug Anthony All-Stars. Made in Scotland from girders. Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum. https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com (photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 13d

Dickon Edwards
October Book Events!
In which I get my career back on Track

The diary book will be published on 24 Oct. Copies will be sent to Kickstarter backers around that time. A "survey" email will be sent out before then, to collect postal addresses.

The book will also be on sale for normal people at the following three special events. I shall be at each of them, reading, signing books, taking questions, and, in the case of the two bar locations, recommending cocktails and mocktails.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 3.30pm. Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 7pm. The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Rd, N6 5AT. My favourite London bar and the location of many of the book’s events.

Wednesday 29 October: ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA, East Sussex, UK. 6pm. Reel Bar at Kino-Teatr Cinema, 43 Norman Rd, TN38 0EE. My favourite bar in my present home town.

You can also buy the book directly from the publisher at poniesandhorsesbooks.com.

More info at my Substack, which reveals how the million-word online diary became a manageable book. (Spoiler: there were cuts).

https://dickonedwards.substack.com

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 6h

This is a fantastically spooky book, great for any age but PERFECT for us lot who grew up reading Usborne's World of the Unknown and who, when 'favourite ghost' did the rounds on here a while back, didn't think of Caspar or something, we thought of the Brown Lady or the Newby monk.

Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social · 6h

As we're WELL into spooky season now, might I take this chance to once again recommend my 1970s-set ghost story The Apparition Phase, which first came out in 2020. As I always say, if you like ghosts, chances are you'll like this. Whoooo! etc.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-app...

The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean | Waterstones

Buy The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9h

NEW

What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal

The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of the decision to drop the Chinese Spying prosecutions on the information then available, and averred that both the positions of the government and the Crown Prosecution Service did not make sense.

Now the government has published three witness statements, the picture now changes. The government’s position now makes sense, and the CPS looks as if it made at least one serious mistake and possibly another.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 9h

Americans. Remember when they had a national crisis when they saw Janet Jackson's right boob?

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, maybe I have my Bluesky set to 'yes please, show me filth'.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 9h

Has it? I can see them fine.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, usually means they've uglied up in hopes of an Oscar. If male, they've feigned a limp, but pretending to be ugly or slightly overweight counts as a disability in Hollywood if you're female.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

Still incredible.

Paul Connell @paulconnell.bsky.social · 10h

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Sooty & Sweep play The Buzzcocks

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 9h

Us being an island should have come in really handy and nope. But what made me furious was being able to protect yourself was a luxury. So many people had no choice other than to go into work or they'd not have had any money. Being able to hide away from other people is a luxury not many can afford.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 10h

It was unbearable how it was on you to take the initiative to protect yourself and others, because the government didn't care or were too stupid or lazy to do what needed to be done. You realise how close we are to everything falling over.

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 11h

You want the whole thing? Oh go on then...

38 years ago today a sodden Ian McCaskill carries the can for the weather forecasting failures around the Great Storm on 1987.

One of my favourite ever pieces of TV

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 11h

Have you forgotten us utterly failing to do that during COVID? People walked off planes at Heathrow straight onto public transport and nobody even tried.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 20h

A coat of arms has to be impressive, full of symbolism, it's important, it represents an powerful family or person, so you have to think long and hard about its design and take it very seriously.

Or just put some underpants on it.
Like Lord Jan van Abbenbroeck did;

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 19h

Significantly greater chance of death without the boy bits, though.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

The best feeling in the world is heading off into the middle of nowhere and pissing off a cliff. It is an act of pure joy whether you are a man or a woman.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 20h

I honestly wept laughing.

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Ben Moor @benmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Next week: A Three Thing Day

“Ben Moor makes storytelling shows of exceptional delicacy."
The Stage ⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Funny and startlingly well observed."
Scotsman ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📌 The Hen and Chickens London N1 2NA
⏰ 19.30 (1hr)
📅 Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th October 2025
🎟️ www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/ben-m...

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why I brought my diagnosed by a thousand strangers on the internet ADHD into this, clearly people who have to Google their actual friends every time instead of just looking in the place they keep addresses are the mentally strange ones here.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 1d

Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).

I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!

www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not a system. It's just putting stuff in the place where it goes. I can remember where the place is. Not where I just put things. It's a long term v short term memory thing.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

If I put a pen in the place where pens go, I know where the pen is. If I put it down anywhere else it will vanish into thin air and I will have to stomp about the place shouting how it was in my hand JUST NOW, WHERE HAS IT GONE? Addresses go in the address place or I might kill. Or forget I had them

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Just thinking of that level of chaos is making me panic.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. I'd go mad. I need there to be one place where the thing is kept and then I only need to remember the one place to find the things. That's having to be a detective every time you need someone's address. I have enough stress in my life without doing that to me.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 13d

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

I am, to be fair, not really coping.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

I need a paper diary. I somehow find a phone calendars too complicated. But absolutely get how an electronic address book makes sense with all the crossings out otherwise. Just don't understand not having addresses anywhere and not knowing where they are. That's just making your life more difficult.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

Mind you, maybe the ADHD makes me be organised. I wouldn't know where to find this stuff otherwise, and it's also (don't tell my friends) where I keep the names of their wives/husbands and children, in the Notes bit.

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