😂

Me googling partway through and realising the people whose weird/horror film recommendations I respect meant *that* Night of the Demon

He does

These days I just ask them if they’d like to come for a walk along the cliffs.

Just showing off at this stage

My kryptonite since forever

LOL, I was kind of thinking: Francy is off to buy Yorkshire pudding ingredients or a Yorkshire pudding wrap with that fiver, and I can dig totally that

People at my birthday were urging me ‘Go on, put on your favourite song’ and I was like ‘You really want me to kill this vibe with Cortez the Killer?’*

*my very favourites vary but it was the one that came immediately to mind

Yorkshire pudding is humankind’s greatest achievement

Magic!

When he first became a thing, I got the impression he was just one of those lads who know how to avoid getting his round in at the bar, but have since realised he’s a force for social good

My dog considers them her mortal enemies. She’s old and arthritic but leaps into action like an utter lunatic when they fly over making those ridiculous sounds (or, more often than not, idiotically giving away the positions of their ground nests by wheeling round them and making a hullabaloo)

I've got another book coming out next year so I have quite a strong practical interest in understanding *why* Municipal Gothic is outselling Intervals of Darkness. I think it's that, Sgt. Pepper style, Municipal Gothic feels as if it will have a more consistent theme and mood.

Complete lad

I honestly can’t tell. Fun, though. Ooh, the LANGUAGE

Go for it

Mifune was a righteous dude

I only saw the first Peter Jackson LoTR and didn’t care for it. I think Boorman would have given the films a much, much darker edge

Yes, but he was notoriously difficult and took ages to complete projects. Was going to be enormously expensive but he’d have delivered an amazing trilogy