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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah, can you imagine - Guys get arrested for dogging near air force base. Trump: "of course, I've been monitoring these guys' activities for some time" Rest of world: " yep, that checks out"

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We haven't signed Mbappe on a free, have we?

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Teaser: my new novel, out soon and featuring this very gorgeous #coverart😍

The cover art of my novel Kyla and the Four Gods. A girl holds four carved gates as the magic within them awakens. Over her shoulder are ominous things: searchlights, Nazi bombers, a haunted fairground, an ancient Greek temple.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks Colin. It would be great to catch up. I'm generally around at the moment, so just drop me a line and let me know what works for you

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Especially happy to have just written those last two words!😊 ##amwriting

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At last - a pair of socks that exactly summarise my footballing ability! 😅

My new Hull City football socks, both left feet fitting

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm at 52k, so we're virtually twins😊

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are few places lovelier in early autumn than the Lake District😍

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is that THE east park parrot that says "hiya, y'allright" when you walk up to it?

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have several - including a Duchess, a gardener and a fiddle-playing cossack, but ultimately my protagonist is going to ignore them all and just go her own way!

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I guess we each have our own unconsciously overused word. Mine is 'vagaries' (somehow) and I'm not even sure about the spelling...

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a Hull City supporter I'd very much like to second this motion!

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

None. I went up to the counter and said "Je veux les cochons 'Percy'" and they just looked at me like I'd gone insane. Terrible customer service.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

M&S food...(French version)😅 I reckon they're visited by hundreds of disappointed British tourists every year...

A fast food joint in Valence with the coincidental name of M&S food

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also - the foley work used on the fade-to-black at the end of Episode 2 may just be the most brilliant (claustrophobic, horrifying) thing ever😱

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm currently destruction-testing this theory by writing a novel about a subversive opera being performed in Estonia in 1781... 🤔

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey, otherwise you'd never get to read them, right?

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I once read a spoof movie guide that reviewed a movie about a German-owned supermarket's especially efficient distribution centre in central Liverpool... The Best Lidl Warehouse in Toxteth.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Natural striker ....is just one of the many things that will never be listed on his CV.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Way back when, in a first year Linguistics seminar, I was the only student in the group who pronounced the 'u' in "could" and "bud" the same way. And I wasn't even at a posh university.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Due to this summer's exceptional heat and humidity, Lancaster's candy floss harvest may be the best ever

Blossom on trees in Lancaster, UK. And no, I don't know what sort of trees. What am I, a botanist?

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Friends of mine were debating whether that was the sound of a screech owl or a distressed squirrel so compromised, agreeing that it was obviously call of a squirr-owl😅

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We'll catch them whilst they're still a bit rusty, right?🤞

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah, I was clinging onto the faint hope that there had to be some sort of silver lining to a disaster that comprehensive 😒

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wildly, mustard gas has saved lots of lives, as its tragic, accidental release at Bari led - eventually - to the invention of chemotherapy🤯

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Beautiful! I was at Antwerp fine art museum recently where they were restoring a Ruben's, so I captured something similar, only real!

Art restorers resting on the scaffold in front of Reubens' Adoration of the Magi.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Could we bring back 'stalwart' whilst we're at it, please?

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Digging a large hole into the side of a cliff of Navarone.

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was going to say The Cuhullan Army by Sarah Hall, but actually I think a guy appears for about a quarter of one scene...🤔

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My MA essay (due in shortly) is similarly afflicted 😒

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not a thing anymore, but hidden tracks on CDs always made me want to keep with fury

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Andrew Okey @andrewokeyauthor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We asked our MA course tutor when its acceptable to use an exclamation mark in fictional dialogue. His rule of thumb was: "only if you can imagine Brian Blessed bellowing the words you've just written" 😅

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