Daniel Blythe
@danblythewriter.bsky.social
Surviving Author. Writer in schools. Occasional editor and mentor.
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
When making future appointments, e.g. my next dental check-up in 6 months, after 'Yes, that's fine', I have taken to adding, 'Assuming we haven't all been blown to Kingdom Come by then', or 'assuming we're all still here' or something equally fatalistic. It's a horrible habit I should get out of...
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When making future appointments, e.g. my next dental check-up in 6 months, after 'Yes, that's fine', I have taken to adding, 'Assuming we haven't all been blown to Kingdom Come by then', or 'assuming we're all still here' or something equally fatalistic. It's a horrible habit I should get out of...
'They're not bloody getting past me, boyo! Stand firm!'
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'They're not bloody getting past me, boyo! Stand firm!'
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“I bring you fun”
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“I bring you fun”
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
Virgin switching landline to fibre network just gives me one extra thing to think about. Our barely used landline is 2 floors down from the hub & we've got a bedroom extension too. Stop changing things for the sake of it. It's nearly Christmas, my mum is in hospital and I don't have the headspace.
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Virgin switching landline to fibre network just gives me one extra thing to think about. Our barely used landline is 2 floors down from the hub & we've got a bedroom extension too. Stop changing things for the sake of it. It's nearly Christmas, my mum is in hospital and I don't have the headspace.
One thing's for sure. We know it'll have great ratings.
COMING TOMORROW! 🌊😈 Move over Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw – there’s a new human/Homo Aqua couple in town: Jon Pertwee and… I wanna say Pat Gorman? (CC: @tobyhadoke.bsky.social – he’ll know.)
It’s the will-they/won’t-they romance of 2025. Or 1972.
Share this poster far and wide. 🙏
It’s the will-they/won’t-they romance of 2025. Or 1972.
Share this poster far and wide. 🙏
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One thing's for sure. We know it'll have great ratings.
Classic FM's 'a celebrity may give you a call at 5pm tomorrow' manages to sound slightly threatening somehow. Classic FM listeners will be at work or at home tomorrow hovering by their phones in terrified anticipation of a call from Rylan, Alan Carr or someone out of EastEnders.
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Classic FM's 'a celebrity may give you a call at 5pm tomorrow' manages to sound slightly threatening somehow. Classic FM listeners will be at work or at home tomorrow hovering by their phones in terrified anticipation of a call from Rylan, Alan Carr or someone out of EastEnders.
Does anyone know where the joke pronunciation of 'Radio Times' as 'Rad-ee-o-tee-meez' comes from? I have a vague memory of a spoof advert in the 90s or something, but beyond that I have no idea.
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Does anyone know where the joke pronunciation of 'Radio Times' as 'Rad-ee-o-tee-meez' comes from? I have a vague memory of a spoof advert in the 90s or something, but beyond that I have no idea.
Only four of the 59 (debatably) people mentioned by name in 'We Didn't Start The Fire' are still alive: Brigitte Bardot, Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernhard Goetz. (This article is from 6 years ago: only Queen Elizabeth II has died since.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
All 59 people name-dropped in Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire’: Where are they now?
The No. 1-charting Cold War history lesson was released 30 years ago. Here's a rundown of the fate of everyone mentioned in the 1989 earworm.
www.latimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Only four of the 59 (debatably) people mentioned by name in 'We Didn't Start The Fire' are still alive: Brigitte Bardot, Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernhard Goetz. (This article is from 6 years ago: only Queen Elizabeth II has died since.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I'm not really from near that end of the county, but in Kent, we had Wrotham and Trottiscliffe.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm not really from near that end of the county, but in Kent, we had Wrotham and Trottiscliffe.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
October 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
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♟️NEW EPISODE!♟️
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
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It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
428: The Dimension Riders
The Alternative Universe Cycle continues, with The Dimension Riders.
Author Daniel Blythe tells us how he was commissioned to write the 20th New Adventure, in an interview recorded back in December 20
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September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
♟️NEW EPISODE!♟️
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
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We've got 5 (count them!) new episodes coming Monday to Friday next week, looking at #DoctorWho New Adventures, with the Alternative Universe Cycle.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
a man in a hat is standing in front of a computer
ALT: a man in a hat is standing in front of a computer
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September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We've got 5 (count them!) new episodes coming Monday to Friday next week, looking at #DoctorWho New Adventures, with the Alternative Universe Cycle.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
This has worrying echoes of Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series) in 1989: 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.'
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This has worrying echoes of Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series) in 1989: 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.'
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
July 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
We welcome the news that the Government is committing to ensure all primary schools have libraries by 2029. But don't forget librarians. To build a school reading culture you need trained staff. @sla.org.uk #GreatSchoolLibraries www.thebookseller.com/news/governm...
July 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
Those 'let's post a biography of someone, but with the photo of a different celebrity who amusingly not-quite-resembles them and who people will reognise, and chortle chortle, we'll all be in on the joke' things are getting a bit wearing now. I think it's time to find a new meme...
July 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Those 'let's post a biography of someone, but with the photo of a different celebrity who amusingly not-quite-resembles them and who people will reognise, and chortle chortle, we'll all be in on the joke' things are getting a bit wearing now. I think it's time to find a new meme...
Don't Tail Back In Anger
July 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Don't Tail Back In Anger
I was in Manchester Piccadilly yesterday during the afternoon travel bedlam, and I have to say how incredibly helpful the very loud and clear on-platform announcers with the booming portable microphones are. They keep platforms 13 & 14 from descending into chaos and confusion...
July 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was in Manchester Piccadilly yesterday during the afternoon travel bedlam, and I have to say how incredibly helpful the very loud and clear on-platform announcers with the booming portable microphones are. They keep platforms 13 & 14 from descending into chaos and confusion...
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A National Year of Reading is a good idea, but a government commitment to ensuring every school has its own library and a state-funded local school library service, to keep that library's stock fresh and engaging in the longterm, would be an even better idea.
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
A National Year of Reading will take place in 2026 aimed at curtailing the reading crisis among children and young people. The initiative was launched by education secretary, Bridget Phillipson ahead of a reception to be held at 10 Downing Street 👇 #BookSky
Trade comes together for government backed National Year of Reading
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July 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A National Year of Reading is a good idea, but a government commitment to ensuring every school has its own library and a state-funded local school library service, to keep that library's stock fresh and engaging in the longterm, would be an even better idea.
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.
June 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.