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Sci-Fi/Fantasy loving librarian. Wargamer, miniature painter and Gunpla builder.
One half of Dining Table Discworld (@DTDiscworld)
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Jingo
Ankh-Morpork prepares for war, which is no good if your job is keeping the peace. Vimes does what he knows, even when it takes him outside his city. We discuss the good influence this book has on us and how it is, regrettably, still very relevant right now.
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Dining Table Discworld - Jingo
Suddenly Ankh-Morpork is keen to go to war, which is bad news for those trying to keep the peace. Vimes chases a suspect out of his element and learns something about big crimes and little crimes. Mea...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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For the weekend crowd, we're Halfway Through our Discworld reread, and look back on the 2nd quarter and 1st half of Discworld and what we've made of it. We also look ahead to the next 10 books. It's now been 2 years of us doing monthly episodes.
dtdiscworld.bsky.social Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · Oct 27
Quadrant 2: Halfway Through
In our look back over the 1st half of Discworld we fail to pick a fave, but do have a clear least fave. We talk through the subseries. We also make some additional comments about Maskerade and discuss the baddies of Discworld so far.
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Dining Table Discworld - Quadrant 2
We look back on the last 10 Discworld novels, plus the first half of the series. Including discussion of how sometimes books need to hit you at the right time in your life, how Granny Weatherwax is li...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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@davegotsu.bsky.social & I are (roughly) halfway through our podcasting of the Discworld novels. Here we look back, discuss subseries & villains, and look forward a bit.
dtdiscworld.bsky.social Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · Oct 27
Quadrant 2: Halfway Through
In our look back over the 1st half of Discworld we fail to pick a fave, but do have a clear least fave. We talk through the subseries. We also make some additional comments about Maskerade and discuss the baddies of Discworld so far.
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Dining Table Discworld - Quadrant 2
We look back on the last 10 Discworld novels, plus the first half of the series. Including discussion of how sometimes books need to hit you at the right time in your life, how Granny Weatherwax is li...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Discworld Calendar - October 1999
Colour of Magic & Light Fantastic by Jack Kirby
It's the edge of the world as we know it! There is a lot going on here, mostly Colour of Magic, but with some Light Fantastic characters thrown in there, maybe wondering why they're there
The edge of the Discworld is an ocean that falls into space, though space looks like a slightly cloudy blue sky here. The long net of the circumfence and it's posts curves away into the distance. Below the disc edge is the rimbow and beneath that we can see part of an elephant and turtle. In the centre is Rincewind, a wizzard with a long white beard and pointy, star-spangled hat, clinging in terror to the figurehead of a small sail boat that is caught on the net at the edge. Also on this boat is smiling Twoflower, who has glasses, and Death is lurking behind the sail with his scythe. Towing this boat away from the edge is a smaller rowing boat, filled by a watery, blue troll. To the left the Librarian, an orangutan in a purple wizard outfit, is on the circumfence. To the right, further away, a scantily clad man, with a scantily clad woman leaning on his back, is riding the Luggage (a wooden trunk with loads of little legs) over the water. The background has a bigger ship is on the water, and beyond that a small piece of land with various buildings and a rocket. In the blue sky above all this are the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, War visible waving a mace above his head and holding a sword, Death is also there with his scythe (so who is hiding on Rincewind's boat? Scrofula?). Further away in the sky is a transparent disc with a group of black-robed figures sitting around the edge, and another in the centre. A ladder dangles from this.
October 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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How about a giveaway?

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I'll do the draw on Wednesday October 1st - good luck 🤞😁
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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For the weekend crowd, our Hogfather episode is now live. At least it's cooler now than when we were reading and recording it.
dtdiscworld.bsky.social Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · Sep 24
Hogfather
Death is covering for a festive figure. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates the Hogfather's disappearance. Meanwhile the wizards find household spirits popping into existence. We discuss Christmas - er Hogswatch- traditions, & cool mythic stuff.
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Dining Table Discworld - Hogfather
Death is covering for a festive anthropomorphic personification, coming down the chimney with presents, a cushion up his robe and attempted jollity. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates wh...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Feet of Clay
Yet another royal conspiracy to investigate. Where is the arsenic tho? New job, new pronouns, new science. What are the golems up to?
With tangents about Britain in 17th century and now, and also fun stuff like jokes and puns.
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Dining Table Discworld - Feet of Clay
There's yet another royal conspiracy in Ankh-Morpork and Vimes is desperately trying to figure out where the arsenic is coming from. Meanwhile a competent, new Watch officer is breaking new ground bot...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Soul Music TV series
In our second special episode we watch the animated Soul Music TV show, from Cosgrove Hall. With praise for Christopher Lee, how they have adapted a book about music into an audio visual format, and how aspects of the story have changed.
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Dining Table Discworld - Soul Music TV Series
In our second special episode we watch the animated Soul Music TV show, from Cosgrove Hall. With praise for Christopher Lee, how to adapt a book about music into an audio visual format, and how aspect...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Discworld Calendar - July 2005
Leonard of Quirm trying to explain his latest idea to Lord Vetinari by Stuart Williams
I love how the picture is titled the way Leonard of Quirm titles his inventions. Maybe it's the heatwave speaking, but that cellar looks like it'd be nice and cool.
2 white men stand in a stone cellar with a vaulted ceiling, around them are devices, sparks and eerie, cold light. On the right is a bald, old man with a bushy, white beard, holding up a diagram, his other pl held put, obviously explaining something. To the left, nearer the twisty stone staircase, is a man with short black hair and a Vulcan-ish look, holding his hand to his chin and clearly considering what he is being told. On the workbench on front of them a chemical flask produces sparks, and there are various mechanical drawings.
July 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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We released our Interesting Times episode last week. It was challenging at times (CN: fatphobia, orientalism, discussion of rape jokes), but we had plenty to talk about.
Rincewind remains Rincewind though, perhaps even more so than before.
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Dining Table Discworld - Interesting Times | Dining Table Discworld
Rincewind has returned, again. Sent to another part of the Disc, he meets old friends and runs away from new troubles. Can someone steal an empire? Are Geography teachers good at heists? What's with a...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Discworld Calendar - May 2004
The Gods of Discworld by Angelo Rinaldi
This Classical scene of the Discworld Gods playing dice has a lot of great details. Obviously very inspired by Greek mythology and art, with a bit of Egyptian thrown in. Blind Io's floating eyeballs add a surreal touch.
There is a round space, defined by Corinthian columns, beyond it the background is sky and the tops of mountains. Some columns look aged and there's a couple of Classical Greek style statues missing heads and arms. The floor is a mosaic with a pattern of leaves and pomegranates. The focal point of the space is a big round table, that is also the Discworld; its seas are deep blue and the continents and islands are sandy colour, the main feature is a big spire of a mountain that rises from the centre. Around this are 14 figures, most are looking down at the table, most are white people wearing white robes in an Ancient Greek style. Some have laurel headbands, one lady has a hoplite-style helmet pushed up on top of her head. There is one person with a lion head, though no mane, and one person with a crocodile head, both are wearing white loin wraps and blue Egyptian-style collars and head coverings. There is also an entirely blue lady who is naked except for her Egyptian collar and blue and gold head covering. The central figure, subtly bigger than the others, is a man wearing a white toga, with dark shoulder-length hair and a salt and pepper beard, he has a white band over his eyes. Blind Io (for it is he) is leaning over the world table and has just rolled 2 dice out of a skull, around where he is leaning crackle lots of little lightning bolts, which would be massive storms on the Disc. Floating all around the space are at least 17 eyeballs, looking down at the table or the other figures, with a cluster around Blind Io.
May 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Meet Susan, a young woman whose inheritance defies logic. And Imp, a young man who wants to give his life to music. See the wizards get carried away, again. Listen to us discuss headcannons, grief & Music With Rocks In! Plus more puns than you can shake a drumstick at
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Dining Table Discworld - Soul Music
Death takes a holiday again, but this time it's compassionate leave. Susan makes a smaller mistake than her father did, but unlike him she was given basically no training. Meanwhile Music With Rocks I...
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April 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Podcast update:
Soul Music - coming soon
Interesting Times - to be recorded, again*
Maskerade - being read

* there was an issue with the first recording, so need to re-record. Not had this happen since Mort
April 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Discworld Calendar
April 1999 - The Colour of Magic by Josh Kirby
This one has a warm, cosy sort of feel due to the colours, but it's dispelled as you look closer. It's clear which scene in the book this is, but not at all clear which figures are the main characters. Still certainly atmospheric.
Background colour is a warm yellow, it's ok the blank areas where the text is when it's the book cover. Right side of the image (front cover of the book) shows a group of people in a smoky cellar room. Towards the top there's 3 yellow trolls whose skin looks like armour, they are standing in a doorway at the top of a stone staircase and holding axes. With them is a white guy with a dagger and ornate outfit. Most of the way down the stairs is a guy (Twoflower) with a satchel, a coin pouch and hat, he may have four eyes or glasses, he's definitely pleased. At the bottom of the stairs a white guy with no shoes is falling, having presumably been violently barged out of the way by a huge wooden chest with a lot of little humanoid legs (the Luggage). It is approaching a trestle table where 4 men sit looking disapproving, 3 are wearing blue, 1 has a raven in his shoulder. 1 is wearing red, including a red hat, though the top of the hat can't be seen, he has a white beard, possibly this is Rincewind the Wizzard. At the far right of the picture, just visible from outside the frame is part of a scythe and the suggestion of a cowl. The light is from flaming torches and candles on a chandelier. Ravens flap high overhead. On the left side of the image a big yellow space at the top is apparently smoke from a flaming torch. The small yellow block seems to be a large parchment held by a weird, blobby, yellow creature with big bulbous eyes. Between these sections is a stone arch where various indistinct figures cluster giving a general air of grime and trouble. Must be the Broken Drum.
April 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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With the old school officers dubious about the new recruits, the last thing the Night Watch needs is a high profile murder they absolutely are not supposed to investigate.
We discuss policing, diversity, class consciousness and what counts as undead in Men At Arms
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Dining Table Discworld - Men at Arms
The Watch is growing, and they'll let anyone in nowadays. With Captain Vimes soon to retire and the more old school officers dubious about the new recruits the last thing the Night Watch needs is a hi...
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March 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Discworld calendar - February 2005
Mr Pin and Mr Tulip by David Frankland
Well all the rain in this picture certainly feels like today.
A dark, wet night on a bridge with everything in shades of purplish-blue. In the driving rain a large figure dressed as a nun, and a skinny figure dressed as a priest with a broad hat are leaning over the low parapet of the bridge. They look down at a full sack, which falls towards the river. Between the figures is a hippo statue, it's jaws wide, teeth beared. To the right of the bridge, beyond another hippo statue, some windows glow a pale yellow in the dark.
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Podcast update:

Small Gods - recorded and being edited

Lords and Ladies - read a while ago and just recorded

There was some illness and Christmas between reading and recording Lords and Ladies, but turns out we'd remembered a fair bit of it, so that's pretty long still.
January 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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For the Boxing Day crowd, our first special episode about the TV version of Colour of Magic.
dtdiscworld.bsky.social Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · Dec 24
Happy Hogswatch folks!
This month we've done a special episode about the Colour of Magic TV show. Join us as we discuss the adaption (combining Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic) including casting and VFX.
Our normal episode format will resume next month.
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Dining Table Discworld - Colour of Magic TV Special
In our first special episode we watch the Colour of Magic TV show, which also includes The Light Fantastic. We discuss how combining the 2 books works and our thoughts on casting and visual effects. Y...
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December 26, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Only UK fans of Greek myth will get this
Odysseus: *the penguin from Wallace and Gromit* Odysseus in disguise: *the penguin from Wallace and Gromit but wearing a red glove on his head so he looks like a chicken*
December 26, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Perhaps not a surprise that we have some Discworld Christmas ornaments. These are miniatures of Death-as-Hogfather and Albert playing an elf. Dave painted these and decorated the bases, with his customary attention to detail.
A close up of 2 miniature figurines on a mantle piece. On the left is a skeleton wearing a bright red, hooded cowl with a dirty white trim, he is holding some parchment and a quill,looking at it with concentration on his skull face. His black boots are on rumpled snow. On the right is a grumpy-looking, rangy, old white guy wearing a bright green festive outfit, including a pointed, green hat with a white tuft on the point. He has long white socks and bright red shoes. His hunched figure and expression are in direct contradiction to his outfit. He is standing on smooth, powdery snow. He wears fingerless gloves and holds a pork pie in one hand and maybe a very small, wooden goblet in the other. The miniatures on their bases stand on the edge of a white shelf.
December 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Happy Hogswatch folks!
This month we've done a special episode about the Colour of Magic TV show. Join us as we discuss the adaption (combining Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic) including casting and VFX.
Our normal episode format will resume next month.
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Dining Table Discworld - Colour of Magic TV Special
In our first special episode we watch the Colour of Magic TV show, which also includes The Light Fantastic. We discuss how combining the 2 books works and our thoughts on casting and visual effects. Y...
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December 24, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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The Witches are Abroad, spreading chaos across half a continent, beset by stories & pumpkins.
Join us as we discuss how mirror magic is very relevant in the 21st Century, and the terrifying spectre of Granny Weatherwax not being The Good One.
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Dining Table Discworld - Witches Abroad | Dining Table Discworld
The Witches are Abroad, spreading chaos across half a continent, beset by stories & pumpkins. Join us as we discuss how mirror magic is very relevant in the 21st Century, and the terrifying spectr...
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November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Podcast update:
Witches Abroad - coming soon
Small Gods - recorded, to be edited
Lords & Ladies - one of us is reading
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Today's project, reorganising the painting desk. New (reinforced) shelf up and the Two Thin Coats racks in. Now to see where I can fit the remaining 4 racks of paints!
November 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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One randomly selected person will get this signed (& dedicated) copy of the Locked Library special edition of THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.
November 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM