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Andrew Crowther
@andrewcrowther.bsky.social
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Unprofessional writer, author of "Down to Earth" published by Stairwell Books and also "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" published by Renard Press, Secretary of the W S Gilbert Society, brunch liberal, and twit

Bradford, Yorkshire
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By the way, while in Bradford @waterstones.bsky.social I saw a display of this great new @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social edition of J B Priestley’s “Benighted” (filmed by James Whale as “The Old Dark House”). A genuinely creepy novel of suspense from the wily old master. @jbpriestley.bsky.social
A picture of the new Penguin edition of “Benighted”: a picture of a large house amidst fields and woodland, silhouetted against the horizon as lightning strikes
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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By the way, if anyone is looking for a stocking filler, my book with the self-explanatory title “Stupid Stories for Tough Times“ may be found at Bradford @waterstones.bsky.social on the main counter (or from your favourite source of books online)
A table display of books on the payment counter at Bradford Waterstones
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I'm no expert and may be wrong, but am getting very creepy AI vibrations from this cover design
Cover of a prestigious new recording of "My Fair Lady". The figures look weird.
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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I do enjoy an unexpected meeting of worlds
Walt Disney and Dmitry Shostakovich.
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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What a peculiar way to put it.
Extract from the Guardian website about Robbie Gibb of the BBC Gibb says he has 'impartiality through my bones' Gibb said he has become “weaponised” before telling the committee that he is “hugely impartial”. He said: “I think there couldn’t be a bigger mismatch between the way I’m presented in some quarters, in relation to my attitude. “I think I’ve become weaponised in terms of how I’m perceived. “Everyone who knows me knows that I’m hugely impartial. I have friends across the political divide. “You know, I have impartiality through my bones.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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At last, a happy end to the “Love Life“ saga
I hold in my hand the CD album of Kurt Weill’s “Love Life” which I have been trying to order for the past 1 and a half months
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Bugs’s horse imitates him too….
Freeze frame showing that, faced with Yosemite Sam toting guns, Bugs Bunny and his horse make identical “let’s prepare to vamoose” gestures.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"Ian Skelly for DG" in the Mamdani lettering
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Just one more, just at the cusp of getting bored with it
"Uncle Fred in the Springtime" in Mamdani For Mayor lettering
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This should get me literally millions of sales

renardpress.com/books/stupid...
The title of my book "Stupid Stories for Tough Times", in Mamdani For Mayor lettering
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Am I doing this right?
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" written in the now celebrated Mamdani For Mayor fonts
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Saltaire this morning
A very atmospheric photo of the canal near Saltaire this morning, taken from the towpath, with the morning sun seen through mist. Leafless trees to left and right, the canal with a boat moored on it,
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Wagner's Siegfried Idyll coming up on R3 soon
Bill Night exclaims "Oh Jesus, not that crap again" in "Love Actually"
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Latest update in the saga of ordering the new Capriccio recording of Weill's "Love Life": you don't want to know
Thank you for your e-mail. I have checked with our distributors regarding your disc and it seems that the consignment due to be delivered to them has been lost in transit. Currently, I am waiting for more information. If it needs re-ordering, it could take up to 3 weeks before arrival.
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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He’s just seen me trying to be funny
Shostakovich covering his face with a hand as if in despair
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Morning, Tom! Great to hear the "Yeomen of the Guard" overture, and I can advise that a *good* production of the opera can blow your socks off.... PS, is it possible to advise whoever does the BBC website that it's "Yeomen", not "Yeoman"?
Extract from the BBC website showing a listing for "The Yeoman of the Guard" overture
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Getting a little bit concerned about my ordered copy of the new @operanorth.co.uk recording of Weill’s “Love Life”. It’s allegedly in the post but is taking a dashed long time arriving; most sites (e.g. Naxos) are stating this brand new CD set is “out of stock“!
www.naxosdirect.co.uk/items/kurt-w...
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The canal near Saltaire is swarming with swans this year: I think we saw about 10 this morning
Three swans swanning about on the canal at Saltaire
October 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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My reading at the moment. Some overlap with pieces in the Dekker collections I've already read, but some interesting rarities and an excellent introduction. Unlike the editions I've previously read, this modernises spelling and punctuation - easier to read, but there's a loss of immediacy and charm.
An old hardback from 1967 entitled "Thomas Dekker: Selected Prose Writings" edited by E D Penry
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Wait, @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social is leaving Sound of Cinema??
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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With the unexpected news that we apparently now have two moons, this cartoon by W S Gilbert is suddenly topical:
A Victorian cartoon by W S Gilbert, showing two drunks stumbling down a road in London. In the background, we see two illuminated clock faces from the tower of Big Ben, with a full moon alongside. The cartoon is entitled " Worse than Usual", and one man is saying to the other: "I say, ole f'ler, look here, most 'strornary thing! 'Pears to me, somehow, see SIX MOONS!"
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Barbara Flynn and James Bolam as Jill and Trevor in "The Beiderbecke Affair"
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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I don't disagree but, as a fan of P G Wodehouse, what's a chap to do?
The Wodehouse book "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets", which scandalously doesn't have a comma before the "and".
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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No parking
Photo of a grumpy tortoiseshell cat sitting on top of a streetside cable box which is blazened with signs saying, “No Parking: 24 hour access required: Danger 230 volts”
October 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Oo, I know this one! This was a note I wrote for a new edition of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” a couple of years ago:
Brown windsor: A kind of soap. Not to be confused with 'brown Windsor soup' - in the twentieth century, a humorous way of referring to Windsor soup, playing on the soup's supposed unappetising nature, which has now unfortunately become the dish's semi-official name.
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM