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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 13/07/2026

The Sam Neill space documentary caught me at just the right age that it was appointment viewing.

Sam Neill next to a hologram of a planet.

Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 21/03/2026

My gym has put up motivational posters that feature a cheerful young basketball about to have the worst day of his life.

The sign reads Be Brave Enough To Be Bad At Something New. The basketball looks like an extra from Steamboat Willy, complete with big eyes, white gloves, and blobby shoes. He walks jauntily towards his haunting fate.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 13/03/2026

New Bluesky bio just dropped.

A black and gold cylinder of salted butter made by The Estate Dairy. On the main body of the butter, above 250g, is written CULTURED BUTTER.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 15/02/2026

Please select all the buses.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 12/08/2025

I disembark in Amsterdam. The sky immediately turns grey. A guy called Jeroen hands me a scarf and walks away sadly.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 10/08/2025

I see wheeled suitcases have been allowed to write headlines again.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 18/07/2025

Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, and a cottage on the Overground

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 27/05/2025

I am taken with this section of the Guardian's Alan Alda interview: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

He learned so much from the show, not least how best to work with people. In between shoots, rather than disappearing to dressing rooms, they sat in a circle, laughing, chatting, making fun of each other. “When they called us to the set, we still had that connection, and it came out in between the lines we were saying to each other, so there were people really talking to each other.”

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 14/05/2025

I am a mess after watching Grand Theft Hamlet from @pinnygrylls.bsky.social, Sam Crane and @markoosterveen.bsky.social What a lovely thing to exist.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 11/05/2025

I. Loved. It. Cowboy R&J at The Globe was incredible fun, beautifully directed, superb performances.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 02/05/2025

Thanks for asking, Bluesky. I installed a new fridge yesterday and woke up this morning realising I'd lived with a broken fridge for weeks, on the assumption that I was just BAD AT FRIDGES.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 29/04/2025

I love this painting of Henry Irving watching a rehearsal. It was painted in the 1890s but could have been done today.

Henry Irving leaning back in a wooden chair, wearing a hat and jacket despite being indoors, a blanket and script on his knee. He looks at something happening off canvas. Another figure does something at a table in the background.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 24/04/2025

I really want to tick this box so consider this your invite to my Eurostar party.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 24/04/2025

I am buying a fridge and I appreciate the implication that I might go for a coffee with Curry's PC World.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 03/04/2025

Asking the important questions this morning

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 01/04/2025

Feeling confident about this new venture.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 27/03/2025

Happy World Theatre Day everybody, from myself and the play shelf. Yes, they're in no order. No, I'm not apologizing.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 04/02/2025

Dear Television, Please accept my pitch for this classic show rebooted for the prestige streaming age. Bus driver and sleuth Margaret Patch-

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 30/01/2025

Funny you should say it preys on people. I wondered what those editorial square brackets had changed and turns out:

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 23/12/2024

1. Decathlon (SE London) 2. presumably another branch of Decathlon

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 21/12/2024

Now the holly bears a berry, warp 6

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 21/12/2024

What AI monstrosity is this?

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 18/12/2024

I found these notes I made seven years ago I have no memory of apparently gaming out what happens if pasta unionises.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 15/11/2024

They'll finally complete that sponsorship deal with Swan Vesta.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 23/10/2024

It's the exclamation mark that I like best.

A screenshot of an email that reads 'Mandy Job Alert: Earn £500 for a TV Commercial!'

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 26/04/2024

Try new things. Keep the brain fresh. Eat a grapefruit like it's an orange.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 01/03/2024

I'm sorry to tell you that this one has diagrams. I'm even sorrier to tell you that I drew them.

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 30/01/2024

TL;dr wear a full suit of armour always felixtrench.substack.com/p/staying-sa...

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 01/12/2023

To celebrate December, my newsletter has a (guest) star. open.substack.com/pub/felixtre...

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 13/10/2023

'I'll have an iced latte and two thousand words on whether altruism can ever be truly selfless.'

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Felix Trench @felixtrench.com · 03/10/2023

I wrote about Trust and acting. felixtrench.substack.com

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