Olthwaite
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Where does it go from here? Is it down to the lake I fear? Ay-yah-yah-yah. Dave Griffiths. Newspaper sub (print). Used to make Barmcake magazine.
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I would just like to say that for fun I just raced ChatGPT to find 200 words of edits in a 1900 word piece and I have already done it and it's still going. So that's the last time I ask it for that.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I would just like to say that for fun I just raced ChatGPT to find 200 words of edits in a 1900 word piece and I have already done it and it's still going. So that's the last time I ask it for that.
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20 years ago today Heth and I remortgaged our house and Incorporated Bluemoose Books as a publishing company.
Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.
Magic!
@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.
Magic!
@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
20 years ago today Heth and I remortgaged our house and Incorporated Bluemoose Books as a publishing company.
Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.
Magic!
@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.
Magic!
@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
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King's Road, London by Harold Chapman (1968)
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
King's Road, London by Harold Chapman (1968)
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My thing about being Lancastrian the same way Tony Soprano is Italian:
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The Old Country
I’m Northern like Tony Soprano was Italian. My Mum is from Lancashire but moved to Somerset when she was a child. She came with an accent (mostly intact 50 years on) and a fully formed Northern ide…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My thing about being Lancastrian the same way Tony Soprano is Italian:
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A special night tonight: HOUSE Of ALL play Leeds for the first time. Bob Dylan plays Leeds for the first time. Here are the Route books represented on stage tonight in Leeds! 25% off all titles, use the voucher code GIFT25 at checkout: www.route-online.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A special night tonight: HOUSE Of ALL play Leeds for the first time. Bob Dylan plays Leeds for the first time. Here are the Route books represented on stage tonight in Leeds! 25% off all titles, use the voucher code GIFT25 at checkout: www.route-online.com
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I have lots of new books including Side-eye by ace poet @mattnicholson.bsky.social and Special Attraction by Richard Lusmore. My hours are 10.30 to 4, Tues to Sat and email anytime at [email protected] if you would like to place an order or if you have any queries xxx
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I have lots of new books including Side-eye by ace poet @mattnicholson.bsky.social and Special Attraction by Richard Lusmore. My hours are 10.30 to 4, Tues to Sat and email anytime at [email protected] if you would like to place an order or if you have any queries xxx
Chuckled at 'Lust for Life singer Iggy Pop, 78...' in some agency copy today. Classic journalese (see also 'Hey Jude hitmakers The Beatles'). 'Eeh, Mr Pop at number 3, he's 78 but he's still got a lust for life. He's an example to us all.'
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Chuckled at 'Lust for Life singer Iggy Pop, 78...' in some agency copy today. Classic journalese (see also 'Hey Jude hitmakers The Beatles'). 'Eeh, Mr Pop at number 3, he's 78 but he's still got a lust for life. He's an example to us all.'
Ooh Cuthbert, I already have a foot cushion and grapes. But I would really like some muffin tweezers for Christmas. I see you are perusing Sir Reginald Argos' latest booklet. He has an excellent selection of muffin tweezers. #girlsowncc
Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ooh Cuthbert, I already have a foot cushion and grapes. But I would really like some muffin tweezers for Christmas. I see you are perusing Sir Reginald Argos' latest booklet. He has an excellent selection of muffin tweezers. #girlsowncc
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Any leads or contacts to help us with this greatly appreciated 🙏
WANTED: COOL SHOPS
If you run (or have links to) a cool indie bookshop, gallery or cinema store with a taste for the weird and spooky, our General Witchfinders zine could fit right in.
Trade pricing for 10+ copies.
Get in touch at [email protected]
If you run (or have links to) a cool indie bookshop, gallery or cinema store with a taste for the weird and spooky, our General Witchfinders zine could fit right in.
Trade pricing for 10+ copies.
Get in touch at [email protected]
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Any leads or contacts to help us with this greatly appreciated 🙏
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salfordbeerfest.bsky.social forecast. Spare room for me.
salfordbeerfest.bsky.social forecast. Spare room for me.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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salfordbeerfest.bsky.social forecast. Spare room for me.
salfordbeerfest.bsky.social forecast. Spare room for me.
Ooh, I thought Belle & Sebastian's Boy With The Arab Strap on Mike's Rebellious Jukebox @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social was Chicory Tip's Son of My Father. I'm sorry hipsters. I apologise groovers. I'm still hip 'n' happenin'.
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ooh, I thought Belle & Sebastian's Boy With The Arab Strap on Mike's Rebellious Jukebox @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social was Chicory Tip's Son of My Father. I'm sorry hipsters. I apologise groovers. I'm still hip 'n' happenin'.
Supping Parkin Ticket at the mighty @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social while Human League's Being Boiled is being played by Mike's Rebellious Jukebox. Cheers to beer fest organiser Jim. (Storing up Parkin Ticket for a headline, but parkin stories are rare these days).
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Supping Parkin Ticket at the mighty @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social while Human League's Being Boiled is being played by Mike's Rebellious Jukebox. Cheers to beer fest organiser Jim. (Storing up Parkin Ticket for a headline, but parkin stories are rare these days).
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Sent a hundred-page magazine off to the printers today. Checked each proof three times. Feel like I've been in a fight.
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sent a hundred-page magazine off to the printers today. Checked each proof three times. Feel like I've been in a fight.
Finished Viv Albertine's To Throw Away Unopened a few weeks ago, but still thinking about her parents' divorce diaries. Her folks were advised to write them by their solicitors and VA read them after they both died. Who else has their parents' diaries? Viv makes the most of them in an ace memoir.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Finished Viv Albertine's To Throw Away Unopened a few weeks ago, but still thinking about her parents' divorce diaries. Her folks were advised to write them by their solicitors and VA read them after they both died. Who else has their parents' diaries? Viv makes the most of them in an ace memoir.
Fancy running a Sam Smith's pub? This is the Commercial, Huddersfield, a beautiful building with a soulless Smith's vibe and bog standard ales. I get the convo in pubs thing, but the place needs a jukey/bands to give it a bit of life. Terms seem generous though.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Fancy running a Sam Smith's pub? This is the Commercial, Huddersfield, a beautiful building with a soulless Smith's vibe and bog standard ales. I get the convo in pubs thing, but the place needs a jukey/bands to give it a bit of life. Terms seem generous though.
This is a lovely book.
Looking for serious, interested publishers to help make a second edition happen!
My Valleys book, with @seanrees.bsky.social
500 supporters, £13,258 raised at 241% of the original target, 10 books sold in the Martin Parr Foundation in two weeks
My Valleys book, with @seanrees.bsky.social
500 supporters, £13,258 raised at 241% of the original target, 10 books sold in the Martin Parr Foundation in two weeks
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a lovely book.
Perfume/aftershave ads - various animals, heavily edited smiling, nowt about smells. How about Depp wafting a lamb & mint pie instead of playing guitar in front of a puma?
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Perfume/aftershave ads - various animals, heavily edited smiling, nowt about smells. How about Depp wafting a lamb & mint pie instead of playing guitar in front of a puma?
Painting of newspaper reader on the wall of the Bulkeley Hotel, Beaumaris. I like it, although his get-up makes it look as though newspapers died out 80 years ago.
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Painting of newspaper reader on the wall of the Bulkeley Hotel, Beaumaris. I like it, although his get-up makes it look as though newspapers died out 80 years ago.
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Enjoy this perplexing illustration for the the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Enjoy this perplexing illustration for the the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
A beer festival in Wakefield is offering 'five hours of full-throttle, all-in, party-mode madness' and confetti cannons. That will go down well with grumpy old alehounds in stained anoraks with newspapers in their pockets (me).
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A beer festival in Wakefield is offering 'five hours of full-throttle, all-in, party-mode madness' and confetti cannons. That will go down well with grumpy old alehounds in stained anoraks with newspapers in their pockets (me).
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A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
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Another Beatles book. I'm Beatled out. The latest authors must be scraping the barrel for minor facts and adding a dollop of conjecture. 'In 1967, Ringo found a shilling down the sofa. A penny for his thoughts? He'd had no shilling for the meter in 1953 and now he could afford central heating.'
October 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Another Beatles book. I'm Beatled out. The latest authors must be scraping the barrel for minor facts and adding a dollop of conjecture. 'In 1967, Ringo found a shilling down the sofa. A penny for his thoughts? He'd had no shilling for the meter in 1953 and now he could afford central heating.'
Back cover of 1973 Giles annual (collection in The King's Head, Hudds). Used to get these every Crimbo as a nipper. This cartoon is at odds with the usual topical stuff Carl Giles did. Gran character was my favourite.
October 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Back cover of 1973 Giles annual (collection in The King's Head, Hudds). Used to get these every Crimbo as a nipper. This cartoon is at odds with the usual topical stuff Carl Giles did. Gran character was my favourite.
The Violent Femmes' Add It Up is playing in the mighty County pub in Hudds. Don't listen to them much now, but their whiny boy skiffle was huge for me in the 80s, far more important than The Smiths. I found Mozzer intimidating as a youth - he was the sort of lad who'd scoff at your pencil case.
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Violent Femmes' Add It Up is playing in the mighty County pub in Hudds. Don't listen to them much now, but their whiny boy skiffle was huge for me in the 80s, far more important than The Smiths. I found Mozzer intimidating as a youth - he was the sort of lad who'd scoff at your pencil case.