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Wayne Connolly

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Still the luckiest person in the world. Living in NE England. Body failing, spirit soaring, walking with Gusto in Pontburn Wood. Plymouth Argyle supporter. Monument Maker. MD ANT!

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · Jun 9

Home from my Helsinki holiday to some great bookpost today - my contributor's copy of Night Terrors from Acid Bath Publishing. I'm made up to be in the company of so many fine writers.

You can order your copy here: acidbathpublishing.com

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2h

We have a full-size facsimile of this painting, produced for us by Factum Arte, in the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland. See more of their work at factum-arte.com

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 20h

I want to live in this pub

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Everyone's Business - Live @ The Cardigan Arms

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

The leaf blower. The most pointless device ever invented, specifically to give blokes the impression they're doing something useful.

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Would you be surprised to know that I've never owned a coloured vinyl record?

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

All round good man. Big up Bim.

Chris Errington @chriserrington1.bsky.social · 2d

Argyle striker Bim Pepple has been spending some of his time away from professional football by helping out as a volunteer at the Shekinah charity shop on Mutley Plain. #pafc

Argyle striker volunteering at Mutley Plain charity shop

When Bim Pepple first started helping out at the Shekinah store he did not tell staff he played for the Pilgrims

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Sprayed edges - yuck. Even worse than stickers on the cover.

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

And my other rant is - no blurb, quotes or stickers on covers!

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

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Rail Replacement Bus Service - When I See You Again

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

I have to own up to this, but sold at a very reasonable cover price

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Signed copies of books without a personal dedication have no extra value or interest, especially if the signature is on a little slip of paper that somebody in a warehouse has glued onto the flyleaf.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 3d

I know, I know…

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 3d

I think that was usual get-up at the time. 1965, I think.

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 3d

Post you from a different era

... in my Frank Muir years, with a bow tie for every occasion

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 3d

Gotta love a tank top

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

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Rail Replacement Bus Service - Feel Much Better (Official Video)

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, Drew, it’s only the most erotically saturated song ever written. When I heard it for the first time I stopped being a child.

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David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Who locked you in a box?

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

She was way too big

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

What 5 events defined your childhood:
- living in Malta and coming home pickled in freckles
- big cousin putting me in a box and giving me claustrophobia for life
- reading the words in the Beano for the first time
- hearing Drive-in Saturday on the radio
- first Plymouth Argyle match in 1974

Fiery Mark @fierymark.bsky.social · 4d

What 5 events defined your childhood:
- great granny teaching us card games
- getting caught nicking sweets
- the humiliation of being dressed in a brown outfit for my uncle’s wedding
- the Sex Pistols
- fags n booze

Cara is the darkness that binds them 🇵🇸 @geekpie.bsky.social · 4d

what five events defined your childhood :

- being taken to the Heineken festival to see chumbawumba and pulp in 95
- being taken out on strike action for teachers with my mum
- being bullied for being me all the way through school
- the animals of farthing wood
- 9/11

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Oof!

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone offended by ‘modern’ graffiti in Canterbury Cathedral should maybe visit Wells Cathedral to take a look at this

17th and 18thC graffiti on a bishop’s face in Wells Cathedral

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Lisa Nandy: gambling is "a great pastime" that "brings joy to millions of people"

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High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Ian. I can’t help blubbing at that final moment in the Side Gallery, a place very dear to me for all sorts of reasons.

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

I’m planning to go to Madrid for a week and spend at least part of every day in the Prado. By day four I might have worked my way past Las Meninas. Maybe I need more than a week.