Abe & Eddie
@abdecker.bsky.social
Raised in Devon close to the sea, now landlocked in Switzerland, I write fiction for adults & children and translate.
Website:
https://abdecker-skinner-books.com/
Website:
https://abdecker-skinner-books.com/
The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If
The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season
The Arthur Daley of UK politics.
Why would anyone want to entrust their country to this chancer?
Why would anyone want to entrust their country to this chancer?
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Arthur Daley of UK politics.
Why would anyone want to entrust their country to this chancer?
Why would anyone want to entrust their country to this chancer?
Here's mine (opening of Flowers from the Black Sea)
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here's mine (opening of Flowers from the Black Sea)
Chrysanthemums wherever you turn this week in the pretty Black Forest town of Lahr
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Chrysanthemums wherever you turn this week in the pretty Black Forest town of Lahr
So I took myself off yesterday to see Kirchner’s “Danse au cabaret”, which depicts a scene that could almost be taken from my historical WIP.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
So I took myself off yesterday to see Kirchner’s “Danse au cabaret”, which depicts a scene that could almost be taken from my historical WIP.
Yesterday, All Saints Day, saw the unveiling in town of Mason Storm's thought-provoking art installation 'Saint or Sinner'
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yesterday, All Saints Day, saw the unveiling in town of Mason Storm's thought-provoking art installation 'Saint or Sinner'
Not going out today while the ghouls are bathing in blood
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Not going out today while the ghouls are bathing in blood
And this #WIPSnips from my fantastical adventure WIP for kids
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
And this #WIPSnips from my fantastical adventure WIP for kids
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
It’s a glorious time of the year, isn’t it? I posted a similar pic yesterday, which shows top left the edge of the balcony off my office. Every morning the top of the maple tree greets me like sunshine when I walk to my desk.
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It’s a glorious time of the year, isn’t it? I posted a similar pic yesterday, which shows top left the edge of the balcony off my office. Every morning the top of the maple tree greets me like sunshine when I walk to my desk.
Such a gorgeous display of colour this afternoon. I should spend more time outside.
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Such a gorgeous display of colour this afternoon. I should spend more time outside.
There's hardly a town or village in the whole of Alsace (and the neighbouring Black Forest & Switzerland) that is not built around beautiful half-timbered houses like this in Colmar for instance
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There's hardly a town or village in the whole of Alsace (and the neighbouring Black Forest & Switzerland) that is not built around beautiful half-timbered houses like this in Colmar for instance
This from the WIP I'm trying - against all odds - to work on today:
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This from the WIP I'm trying - against all odds - to work on today:
One of my favourite characters in Great Expectations was always Orlick, a name I’d never met before nor since – until this weekend, when Switzerland's traditional wrestling tournament was won by Armano Orlik, who btw bears no resemblance to Dickens’ Orlick
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
One of my favourite characters in Great Expectations was always Orlick, a name I’d never met before nor since – until this weekend, when Switzerland's traditional wrestling tournament was won by Armano Orlik, who btw bears no resemblance to Dickens’ Orlick
For anyone seeking the meaning behind Trump's enigmatic "bela" post might like to ponder this: "bela" means white, as in "bela zastava" - a white flag
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
For anyone seeking the meaning behind Trump's enigmatic "bela" post might like to ponder this: "bela" means white, as in "bela zastava" - a white flag
I’d never seen a tiger moth in the house until a couple of weeks ago, when this little beauty turned up. It seems to have become a constant visitor ever since. Could this be an omen?
August 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I’d never seen a tiger moth in the house until a couple of weeks ago, when this little beauty turned up. It seems to have become a constant visitor ever since. Could this be an omen?
Melvin would get along like a house on fire with Ferdy the ubiquitous frog in my fantastical adventure The Shrinking of Grin
August 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Melvin would get along like a house on fire with Ferdy the ubiquitous frog in my fantastical adventure The Shrinking of Grin
Look how this praying mantis turns its head to stare at the camera when it comes to the dinner table
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Look how this praying mantis turns its head to stare at the camera when it comes to the dinner table
Look how the praying mantis turns its head to stare at the camera when it comes to the dinner table
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Look how the praying mantis turns its head to stare at the camera when it comes to the dinner table
One of many intriguing artefacts seen on my trip to Crete last week was this mysterious board game discovered at Knossos, now in the archaeological museum at Heraklion
August 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
One of many intriguing artefacts seen on my trip to Crete last week was this mysterious board game discovered at Knossos, now in the archaeological museum at Heraklion
Spinalonga off the coast of Crete was a leper colony from 1903 to 1957 and was the inspiration for Victoria Hislop’s The Island. Must add this book to my TBR list.
August 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Spinalonga off the coast of Crete was a leper colony from 1903 to 1957 and was the inspiration for Victoria Hislop’s The Island. Must add this book to my TBR list.
A lovely post - it could serve as a motto for my kids novel published earlier this year
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A lovely post - it could serve as a motto for my kids novel published earlier this year
#OTD in 1875 C.G Jung was born – ca. 12 years later, walking by Basel Cathedral, he saw God on his golden throne, from which an enormous turd tumbled onto the sparkling new roof of the minster
July 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#OTD in 1875 C.G Jung was born – ca. 12 years later, walking by Basel Cathedral, he saw God on his golden throne, from which an enormous turd tumbled onto the sparkling new roof of the minster