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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 4h

It's the Nobel Prize IN Literature you clot.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 6h

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Graph showing a very steep increase in Covid cases in the UK in September

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'The Decipherment of Linear B' by John Chadwick. A touchstone book for me, and (I'm beginning late in life to realise) life-changing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B Get your hands on a copy!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you everyone! Goal reached ahead of today's meeting with Haringey Council. Do please continue to sign, and support this much-loved community pottery - a cultural asset that (you would think) the 'London Borough of Culture 2027' would be keen to maintain, and celebrate.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Go on. Make my day. www.change.org/p/save-our-p...

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We now go live to the Oval Office

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Help save Pothole Studio, a much-loved local resource. We need 2,000 supporters before the end of today. One click and you'll feel good for the rest of the week. Sign here: www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Thank you! #ceramics #pottery #davidandgoliath #urbanarts #cultureforall #Londonarts

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Chair of the Booker judging panel

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

170 more signatures and we reach 2,000. Please support this petition - we must never give in to those who see only the price of everything and the value of nothing! Pothole Studio is a much-loved community asset and an essential cultural resource. To shut it down would be wicked act of vandalism.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th October 2023 saw the launch of Sports and Social by @kevinboniface.bsky.social in a disused Methodist chapel in Brixton. What larks!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He was the only British clarinetist to feature in a Ken Kesey novel, that I do know.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This really gave me the willies.

The alien face at the end of the original Star Trek closing credits, the Balok puppet from the season 1 episode 'The Corbomite Maneuver'.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A strong recommendation. Find a place in your life for this. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Save Pothole Studios! Petition update. Please sign and share! www.change.org/p/save-our-p...

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Paris on Friday morning, fire damaged the entrances of two high schools – Léonard de Vinci in the south of the city and Gaston-Bachelard in the south-east. (IYKYK) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Onward and upward! Please sign and circulate - numbers count!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now approaching 1,000 signatures! Please support and share widely. This much-loved cultural hub is under serious threat. Full details here: www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Thank you!

Screen grab showing 966 signatures on the petition to save Pothole Studios, a community pottery in Muswell Hill

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National Poetry Day. A signed copy of my book 'A Crumpled Swan' to whoever (in my view) best completes Aldous Huxley's notorious limerick that begins 'There was a young man from East Anglia Whose loins were a tangle of ganglia...'

Cover of "A Crumpled Swan: Fifty essays about Abigail Parry's 'In the dream of the cold restaurant'"

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day and yes, it should run for a week, or a month, or even longer. Here's my book about reading one short poem very closely for a year - and what a poem! www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...

Cover of A Crumpled Swan: fifty essays about Abigail Parry's 'In the dream of the cold restaurant' published by Sagging Meniscus Press

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to all six authors and especially to @aeavvw.bsky.social for 'Attention-seeking Behaviour', a superb debut. Here she is launching the book at one of our cultish online gatherings.

Author Aea Varfis-van Warmelo at the online launch of her debut novel 'Attention-seeking Behaviour' (which has today been shortlisted for the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Plaque on 65 (left) and the barbers shop (still trading) two doors away.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My pledge to you. Worth every penny for this limited edition.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Marking three years since the publication of 'Sports and Social' by @kevinboniface.bsky.social

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Science Fantasy' was about to be re-launched as 'Impulse' and the first issue had a jaw-dropping cohort of contributors.

A list of authors appearing in the first issue of 'Impulse' science-fiction magazine in 1966: Brian ALDISS, Poul ANDERSON, J. G. BALLARD, James BLISH and Harry HARRISON.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks to Ray Davis for sharing a link to M John Harrison's debut short story 'Marina' which appeared in Science Fantasy magazine in 1966. archive.org/details/Scie...

M John Harrison (writing as John Harrison) in issue 81v24 of Science Fantasy magazine (1966) - his first story to appear in print, 'About a girl who remembered the sea and looked for it in an attic'.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shades of Mick Philpott. davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2013/03/on-m... What we might agree to call alligator tears. They're like crocodile tears, but prompted by allegations.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Post Modern' - an evening of back-to-back highlights, with thanks to @kevinboniface.bsky.social, @susannacrossman.bsky.social, Paul Kavanagh and @tonywhite.bsky.social

Kevin Boniface effortlessly reduces a sophisticated international audience to puddles of helpless laughter.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be sharing some thoughts on the New Zealand artist Len Lye, who worked for the General Post Office Film Unit in the 1930s, making some dazzling animated shorts such as 'Rainbow Dance'.

Shot from Len Lye's 'Rainbow Dance' (1935)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thursday 24th September at 7pm (BST) join me and authors Kevin Boniface, Susanna Crossman Paul Kavanagh & Tony White for POST MODERN, an online event featuring writers connected with postal services. Free & all welcome. If not already invited email me via m'website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Auction of Brigitte Bardot's belongings today. Mostly 1970s tat with very low reserve prices: drouot.com/en/v/184736-...

Brigitte Bardot's umbrella stand (one of two) estimated auction price £25-£43.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

Cross section of a Short Empire seaplane from the 1930s.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The House itself has seen better days and is now girdled by girders.

The House by the Church-yard in Chapelizod.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've just watched La Chimera on BBC iPlayer. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Absolutely brilliant - every frame counts, and the lead (Josh O'Connor) gives a mesmerising performance. Struck by this (doubtless coincidental) visual link to the British poet/painter/film maker Humphrey Jennings...

Josh O'Connor in the role of Arthur walking past a poster for Graf Swiss rolls in La Chimera, a film directed by Alice Rohrwacher

'Swiss Roll' (1939) by Humphrey Jennings. A painting of a Swiss roll, with the Matterhorn in the background.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can anyone identify the provenance of this decorative object? Perhaps ceramic, possibly wooden. Hellenic? I shan't name the owner or give any context as that might give the game away...

A decorative object, flat and oval in shape, propped on a shelf. Perhaps ceramic or possible carved wood. It could be ancient or modern - perhaps Hellenic? Looks a bit like an owl or Greek warrior in a helmet with nose guard. Around ten inches tall.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not sure if this qualifies as a genre...

'Oh! What a Carry On' - an album, or LP, of songs by actors associated with the Carry On films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_What_a_Carry_On!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While my local branch of the execrably rebranded 'T G Jones' is being closed down.

The Muswell Hill branch of T G Jones (formerly W H Smith) which is closing down after nearly a century.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My latest Prynne (from 2020, but I'm catching up)

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