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Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England 'You're one of us now.' - Doug Anthony All-Stars. Made in Scotland from girders. Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum. https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com (photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 12d

Dickon Edwards
October Book Events!
In which I get my career back on Track

The diary book will be published on 24 Oct. Copies will be sent to Kickstarter backers around that time. A "survey" email will be sent out before then, to collect postal addresses.

The book will also be on sale for normal people at the following three special events. I shall be at each of them, reading, signing books, taking questions, and, in the case of the two bar locations, recommending cocktails and mocktails.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 3.30pm. Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 7pm. The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Rd, N6 5AT. My favourite London bar and the location of many of the book’s events.

Wednesday 29 October: ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA, East Sussex, UK. 6pm. Reel Bar at Kino-Teatr Cinema, 43 Norman Rd, TN38 0EE. My favourite bar in my present home town.

You can also buy the book directly from the publisher at poniesandhorsesbooks.com.

More info at my Substack, which reveals how the million-word online diary became a manageable book. (Spoiler: there were cuts).

https://dickonedwards.substack.com

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 41m

I don't know why I brought my diagnosed by a thousand strangers on the internet ADHD into this, clearly people who have to Google their actual friends every time instead of just looking in the place they keep addresses are the mentally strange ones here.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 46m

Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).

I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!

www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

It's really not a system. It's just putting stuff in the place where it goes. I can remember where the place is. Not where I just put things. It's a long term v short term memory thing.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

If I put a pen in the place where pens go, I know where the pen is. If I put it down anywhere else it will vanish into thin air and I will have to stomp about the place shouting how it was in my hand JUST NOW, WHERE HAS IT GONE? Addresses go in the address place or I might kill. Or forget I had them

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

Just thinking of that level of chaos is making me panic.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. I'd go mad. I need there to be one place where the thing is kept and then I only need to remember the one place to find the things. That's having to be a detective every time you need someone's address. I have enough stress in my life without doing that to me.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 12d

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

I am, to be fair, not really coping.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

I need a paper diary. I somehow find a phone calendars too complicated. But absolutely get how an electronic address book makes sense with all the crossings out otherwise. Just don't understand not having addresses anywhere and not knowing where they are. That's just making your life more difficult.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, maybe the ADHD makes me be organised. I wouldn't know where to find this stuff otherwise, and it's also (don't tell my friends) where I keep the names of their wives/husbands and children, in the Notes bit.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

According to everyone on the internet I have ADHD, and yet I cannot imagine that level of disorganisation.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but surely you have an address book in your phone, under 'Contacts'? You don't search WhatsApp chats for 'address' like the OP is saying?

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Blinded by those boxers!

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

Me too! BUT NOT ONE NOTE OF A SONG!

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

I distinctly remember the lead singer in nothing but a pair of freshly-ironed boxer shorts at one point. It was so desperate.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

I hate being told what to do SO MUCH I'm still a bit cheesed off about it. Don't tell me what to do, Smash Hits.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

Their biggest achievement was getting on the cover of Smash Hits before even releasing a record, and then every time they even coughed. Someone clearly shagging someone.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 2d

I bet there's a German word for being reassured about something and worried about it at the same time.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 3d

Creepy sad bastard stalker alert. The latest dead jazz musician name he's using is Frank Rosolino.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 4d

People ask me if it's tree pollen or flower pollen or leaf spores and I DON'T KNOW, it's THE OUTSIDE, it's not like I can avoid trees some weeks and just dodge flowers other times of the year, it's all *waves hands* THERE, isn't it?

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 4d

I have resigned myself to hayfever now being year round. It seems to get worse every year. I always have eyedrops in my bag now, and that only ever used to be a thing in high summer.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 4d

Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...

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Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 4d

All my BRILLIANT Bandcamp stuff is “pay what you want” until midnight on Sunday. Audiobook (recommended), EPs and live shows! You can even have them all for free, if you want. Get them while you can. Normal price returns on Monday. THANK YOU! SPREAD THE WORD!! michaellegge.bandcamp.com/music

Michael Legge

Bandcamp page for comedian Michael Legge. Follow him on Twitter: @michaellegge.

michaellegge.bandcamp.com

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 4d

It still baffles me. It felt at the time like she had to be taking the piss.