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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 7h

How is he driving? The same way everyone else does as far as I can tell. He’s using the wheel to control the direction of the vehicle and the pedals to regulate its speed

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 8h

Stunning set from Cate Le Bon last night in York. Struggling a bit at work today as a result - a busy night. Worth it to see one of the greats on top form.

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 1d

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now:

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 1d

Haha! There's a woman on my post round called Mrs England and I invariably find myself singing This is England by The Clash after delivering her mail

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the time I figured out the reason I often have Radiohead's No Surprises going round my head: its opening notes sound like the door bells on my post round

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 2d

Je me souviens sorting on the primary frames in the early 2000s. There was a firm of accountants called Wheawill Sudworth and whenever anybody got a letter for them we all sang Wheawill Wheawill Sudworth to the tune of We Will Rock You by Queen

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 2d

Places I saw the Cross of St George today (Oct 3, 2010)
1. Flying from a dead tree in a garden on Vicarage Drive
2. Painted on a drain cover in Elizabeth Road
3. Flying from what used to be The Green Cross real ale pub but is now a 'sex encounter' club with blacked out windows and plans for a sauna

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 2d

Just noticed I mixed up feet and inches on the alt text - Spinal Tap tribute

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing, don’t remember either of those. Would love to see them - just checked YouTube for the Ross clip but it’s not there : (

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 3d

Finally managed to get across to the Helen Chadwick show at the Hepworth, Wakefield. Progressive and vital viewed now, through a haze of 2025 induced melancholia. Ugh. Loved Caroline Walker's Mothering paintings too

Gallery space. On the floor, Helen Chadwick's Piss Flowers sculptures, On the walls, her large Viral Landscape prints.

Helen Chadwick's Carcass, 1986: a tall (7"?) glass tank full of composting organic waste

Interpretation board at the Hepworth Gallery showing a photograph of Helen Chadwick's 1981 work, Model Institution, an installation with audio that recreated a dole office cubicle.

Morning at Little Bugs: Caroline Walker's big (8"x12" approx) painting of a woman and four young children at Little Bugs outdoor nursery

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled with the picture of a heron I took this morning 📷 🏆

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 4d

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 4d

Bookshop Day trip to my local, the excellent Read in Holmfirth to pick up this collection of Jason Polan’s post office based work. Also spotted Shaun Usher’s latest compilation, Diaries of Note which came out this week. Thrilled to see an entry from Round About Town featured : )

Cover of Jason Polan’s book, The Post Office

Cover of Diaries of Note compiled by Shaun Usher

Double page from Diaries of Note featuring showy-offy entry of my own alongside one by Evelyn Waugh

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 4d

Started the day with this incredible 1970 footage of Can playing an 18 minute version of Oh Yeah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMS...

Can - Oh Yeah

YouTube video by ark80

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 5d

If you like good things…

Julian Hanna @julianisland.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to the new season of Round About Town by @kevinboniface.bsky.social while I bake a cake for my kid’s 21st (?!) birthday. More humour and brilliant insights, with an even sharper edge. Highly recommended if you like good things.

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for listening! Hope the the cake turned out well. I’m off to share this for a spot of shameless self promotion

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 6d

The odds on this little Santa seeing a second Christmas outside the flats are getting shorter every day

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 6d

Kevin B reports from French Flanders: Rubens, Van Dyck, Boeckhorst, Soup of the Day, UHT milk etc.

Kevin D reports from Bluemoose: independent publishing Rónán Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul, BBC, RTÉ and Julia Roberts.

Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 7d

The Last King of Elmet, Episode 6, Out Now! From all good stockists. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and I discuss French Flanders, independent publishing, Leonard and Hungry Paul, UHT milk and more. Ample free parking.
shows.acast.com/the-last-kin...

Episode 6 | The Last King of Elmet

From Hebden to Hollywood pt.2

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to Michael (who you might have spotted recently in #houseofguinness) for doing this.

Michael Hughes Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 7d

The Last King of Elmet, Episode 6, Out Now! From all good stockists. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and I discuss French Flanders, independent publishing, Leonard and Hungry Paul, UHT milk and more. Ample free parking.
shows.acast.com/the-last-kin...

Episode 6 | The Last King of Elmet

From Hebden to Hollywood pt.2

shows.acast.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 7d

“I’m fed up of getting mail for my husband. He’s dead. Send them back and write on them ‘Dead. Pissed out of this world.’”

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 8d

20 years ago we registered as a company.

30 of our books have been short listed for major Lit Prizes.

2 books adapted for BBC drama series.

Not bad for a small Indy from the North of England.

@andyburnham.bsky.social
@thetimes.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

www.bbc.co.uk

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