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Chris Limb
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Writer, Music, Dreams, Space

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent They/them

UrbanFantasy MusicBiz novels: http://comeba.co.uk

Hastings based
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27 November
Brighton
Gulls wheel beneath a thick low grey cloud sky above waves crashing onto the shingle beach. In the distance is the skeleton of the West Pier. Selfie of me in floral and skull motif day of the dead style mask. Interior of covered station footbridge with curved metal grill ceiling. All shabby rusty and run down disappearing into the distance with perspective. Interior of dirty brick tunnel through which a road runs.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Here's a more comprehensive banner I've been using online to advertise it. If you're in Hastings or environs do come along!

1200 Postcards is a quirky Queens Road Beer Bar stocking the best real ale & craft beer from Sussex & the UK.
The word Ghostdance in large font on an orange background above the black silhouettes of four people (a band). A copy of the paperback is to one side with "A 1990s Indie Urban Fantasy" written underneath it. At the bottom a banner reads "Book launch: Thu 27th Nov, 7pm, 1200 Postcards, Queens Rd, Hastings TN34 1RL"
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Tomorrow at 7pm at 1200 Postcards bar in Hastings is the book launch for my new novel Ghostdance. Yikes.

You’ll be able to buy copies of both that and my previous novel (plus there will be free postcards with an illustration by @jenniegyllblad.bsky.social).
A shelf with a crystal ball and Egyptian cat statue. Also copes of the novels Comeback and Ghostdance by me and a small pile of illustrated postcards.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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26 November
Brighton, Hastings
A collection of old fashioned armchairs (and armless chairs) plus other furniture on the pavement outside a shop like an out of door drawing room. Selfie of me wearing a mask which reads “It Goes Over Your Nose” Looking down the deserted platform at Hove Station. Tracks, platform edge, yellow line, canopy girders and other fixtures all disappearing towards the vanishing point. Shot through a window of a tower crane looming over central Hastings against a blue cloud scattered sky.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Wasn't expecting to see my dad on BBC Breakfast TV this morning but apparently it's 50 years since the Protect & Survive PIFs with which he was involved.

(Fact check: He did not help write the Doctor Who theme as the piece claims.)
Screenshot from BBC iPlayer of Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in his home studio.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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25 November
Brighton, Hastings
Ginger cat sitting on a pink rug; view from behind his haunches. He is looking round at the camera. Palace Hotel building on Hastings sea front with palm tree and streetlight in the foreground. Sky very blue. Street art of a screeching gull on a shed door. Selfie of me with orange streaks at the front of my mostly purple hair.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The book launch for my novel Ghostdance is this Thursday at 7pm at 1200 Postcards bar in Hastings!

You’ll be able to buy copies of both that and my previous novel plus there will be free postcards with an illustration by @jenniegyllblad.bsky.social
Self flanked by two Egyptian cat statues with a crystal ball in the middle. Also on the shelf are copies of Ghostdance and Comeback by Chris Limb plus some illustrated postcards.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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#OnThisDay extra - a murmuration I saw over Hove on 24 November 2017
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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24 November
Brighton, Hastings
Ginger cat sitting in my chair looks at the camera as if to say “What?” Metal statue of an octopus attacking a giant rook (chess piece not bird) nearby is a giant knight (chess piece not person in armour) all on A paved plaza with a railed off section of plants behind them. Butler’s Gap in Hastings. Narrow pedestrianised street with signboards, plants and cafe furniture out on the street. Bunting zig zags across the street at first floor level. George Street Hastings. Selfie of me on a train wearing a mask forelock dyed in rainbow colours.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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On a train. New mask!
Selfie of me with fur hat, glasses, purple neck warmer and FFP3 mask.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Having another one of these days. Just opened a cupboard door into my face. Earlier I knocked a load of stuff off a shelf.
Caption reading "when things get knocked over spill or fall out of cupboards"
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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23 November
Brighton, Hastings, Moon, London
Panoramic shot of sun setting behind a splay of marbled grey cloud with delicate blue yellow and orange sky in the background. Calm sea and darkened beach in the foreground, gulls doing gull stuff on the shingle. Pre sunrise pink orange glow fading into pale desaturated blue silhouetting West Hill, centred on That Tree. Gibbous moon in a grey blue sky Ox blood tiled entrance of disused Down Street tube station in London. Classic Leslie Green design.
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Happy Doctor Who Day to those who celebrate.
Spiritualized CD cover renamed “Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in Spain” with a picture of William Hartnell as Dr Who added. Monochrome photo of Carole Ann Ford as Susan and William Hartnell as Dr Who on set Monochrome photo of Verity Lambert, first Dr Who producer, lighting a cigarette from the flamethrower of a Mechanoid robot on set. Monochrome photo of a cyber man from Dr Who smoking a cigarette on the seafront at Blackpool
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Reminds me of my favourite badge which I never wear in case people get offended.
Badge reading”social battery” with LEDs for 100%, 75%, 50%,25% and 0%
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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What, *I* have, or the watch has?
Watch screen on my wrist reading 3% Battery You have 3% battery life remaining. Low Power Mode Dismiss
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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22 November
Brighton, Hastings
Huge waves smashing into the beach by the ruins of the West Pier in Brighton under a white sun in a silvery blue sky with a small cloud scan Street Art of a fox on an electricity substation door. Text next to it reads “Except for one little hummingbird. She took flight and headed for the river. Old grey building of Hove Library. Big arched window over the door. Circular windows on the first floor. Red pre-dawn sky above the silhouette of West Hill.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The toilet on the bridge of the original USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in Star Trek was supposed to be next to the main viewscreen. #CaptainsLog

(I've shared this trivia before but thought it was time it had another outing.)
Diagram of the bridge of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 from Star Trek showing the toilet accessed from a corridor that encircled the main bridge. The toilet backs onto the viewscreen.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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21 November
Brighton, Edinburgh
Forequarters of a tabby cat lying down in sphinx position, turning her head to look serenely in the direction of the camera. The lights of Prince’s Street, Edinburgh at night; also reflected in a marble wall to the left of the frame. A seagull chick on a railing behind them is the green sea. The horizon is a streak of orange; the sky a sheet of grey. Sunlight coming through grey clouds in rays over a calm sea. Is a deity going to make an appearance? In the foreground a deserted promenade with railings.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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This picture was stuck on the kitchen cupboard when I was a child and so as a result I probably spent hours staring at it. And yet I have only just today noticed that the cat pulling the loaves from the oven is standing in a pit.

A fix the artist had to make post hoc because the cat was too tall?
Four cats dressed as bakers in a kitchen. Two are fighting with dough. One has tripped over and spilled a tray of cakes onto the floor. One is standing in a pit pulling three loaves of bread from the oven but spilling them onto the floor. Drawing by Alfred Mainzer.
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A week to go.

Just spotted a copy in the window of one of my local shops.
Display of books in a bookshop window. Ghostdance by me is at the centre.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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20 November
Brighton, Hastings
Close up of a ginger cat shouting through a window to be let in. Selfie of me with hat, glasses and day of the dead style mask Four sets of mobile traffic lights loitering on the pavement outside someone’s living room window, Looking down into the jumble of Old Town buildings from up on West Hill plus the sea beyond
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Terry Nation's meta commentary on his own tendency to recycle plot elements #Blakes7 #Redemption
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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19 November
Brighton, Hastings
A person and a dog walk along the shoreline silhouetted against the sea beyond a huge expanse of shingle. Above the pale blue and yellow sky is marbled with grey cloud. 1930s facade of the Imperial Arcade in Brighton. My tall laced boot (what I tend to think of as a Victorian Governess’s boot) obviously crossed over my knee in front of some bus seats with social distancing signs on them. Sun rises behind a bank of cloud behind Hastings Castle throwing everything into sharp silhouette.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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18 November
Brighton, Hastings
Squirrel sitting on a planter next to some railings Wide open blue sky with scattered clouds. Calm sea, shingle beach. In the distance if you zoom in, Shoreham power station and Worthing Pier. Graveyard of St Andrew’s Hove, a square towered church Street art reading “All that we’ve got is this pale blue dot” on a cloud above rainbow stripes, all painted on a street comms cabinet, behind it is a modern building with an underpass built in.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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16 November
London, Brighton, Camber, Hastings
The Shard visible between buildings from the railway Shingle on the promenade at Brighton swept into a curve. In the distance the i369 and city centre buildings huddle together. A cuboid shipping container half buried in sand dunes. Sky above is blue. Tower crane rising against a blue sky behind some terraced 2 up 2 down houses, tree poking into the frame from the right.
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM