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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

29 people have been in The Three Degrees… that means there are 3,654 different possible line ups of The Three Degrees… Do with that information what you will.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When Julian and Sandy opened a bakery

A circular pastry item in plastic wrap, labelled MINCE ROUND

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Formica Wife skids around the kitchen, whipping up yet another batch of “good honest British dinners”. All the while dreaming of herbs and spices denied from her larder.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sorry that the England team lost… I had a lovely evening not watching the match sat in the garden, gently crafting.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Also.. coming from an Improv background I love unintentional typos that give you a whole new bit to play with... in one of my previous posts on here I typed Coroner Shop instead of Corner Shop... that's a decent bit to write a little thing about and no mistake.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was chatting with an author the other day about character names and how hard they are... You want them to sound interesting and perhaps give a hint of who they might be but also you don't want them to go full restoration Comedy Lord Fannysnatcher and Lady Comely-by-Nature

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The book I started reading today was much better, even just 30 pages in I know it's not going to suddenly spring an orphan with a destiny on to me. Or a bloody awful character name Like Lillett or Transom.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I truly hate chosen one narratives. It lazy, it gives you as a writer a get out of jail card free card to keep your boy (and it’s always a fucking boy isn’t it?) central to the story without having to work too hard to do so…

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nearly Great Moments in History. Issac Newton gets hit on the head by a satsuma. Washington gets halfway across the Delaware and forgets why he was going to the other side. A Wooden Hearse is left outside the gates of Troy Prince Albert absentmindedly puts a magnet in his trouser pocket.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@gralefrit.bsky.social I'm on my first full relisten to Broken Veil and just have to say how blown away by it I am. The writing and performances are great across the board (I'm usually good at catching well known voices when I hear them but was very surprised when I heard the cast list...

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

todays writing thing... new proverbs Never tilt your cap at a statue, it just embarrasses you both. Give a cornishman a fiver and you'll get to sniff his Pasty. There's always a pin for a difficult Whelk. Tap on glass, kiss my arse. A burp is just a premature fart. Polite company often isn't

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The wanderer “This place is very ridiculous indeed!” I heard myself say it and immediately thought, you sound like a petulant Victorian child in a gingham dress! And who knows? I might be just that. Well, no. I’m not. No gingham here just a sort of grey jumpsuit thing.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musical meme on a word based platform. You never pulsate erotically, You never put alfalfa in a vindaloo You never sang songs with Bassey, Or did anything classy, You never took a chipmunk into Timbuktu.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Flag That tattered flag, Hanging from a lamp post, The ultimate symbol of who you are. An empty provocative gesture, made in haste, And then discarded. Left to rot and rag in the wind and rain, And for someone else to clear up.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So, I'm making myself do some writing again.. I have been trying to write a larger piece but it has fallen off a little due to work and other stuff. I think I just have to give it some room to breathe and stretch my writing muscle in another direction for a bit.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Finger “Don’t pick it up, It’s nasty!” Terry was quite a germaphobe and Laurie knew it, sometime he would gross him out on purpose, show him a popped and oozing zit and ask if he wanted to squeeze....

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Sycamore Hare Nan Whitlock sat at the window of her bungalow. Outside, the bodies gyrated and wheeled along the street. The whole village was out there, dancing up a storm. 1/

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Words on a Summers Day Sometimes all you need to do is just sit in the garden and listen to the birds happily chatter from tree to tree. To relax into a summer's day and the fresh green smell of hasty lawn trimming from three doors up. 1/10

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Here’s the thing… I don’t believe that it would now be possible to “cancel” Doctor Who… sure the BBC might not be actively making the program at the moment (or more accurately have one currently commissioned). But it has now so much cultural magnetism it will very definitely return in some form.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Went to see Dropout Improv live last night… great show, good improvisers, good games (on the whole). Short form show that absolutely delivered on it’s promise.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Slightly ruin a song title. Thus; Ambling up that hill.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I don’t have recurring dreams but I do have recurring places in dreams… last night it was a hotel I often dream about… not a real place I’ve ever been, in fact not a place that could exist really. It has many notable features one of which is The Bathroom

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

April is a great producer, fantastic woman and all round good egg… get her voted for!

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Jenna Rose 🌹 @jrosereads.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Good Omens - Aziraphale and Crowley watching Jesus be crucified.

Crowley: what was it he said that got everyone so upset?

Aziraphale: Be kind to each other.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Watching Death on the Nile, Simon McCorkindale’s nostrils deserve an Oscar of their own!

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In my past I used to do massively long Improv shows, one of the features of which was you would keep to one character and they would often have a puntastic name... I don't to improvathons anymore (too old, too grumpy) but just got a great name if I ever did an army one... General Tomfoolery!

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Today I did a drawing of an owl that looks like it wants to ask you out for a fight.

A line drawing of an owl on a whitewash background… the owl looks like it wants to ask you out for a fight.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The second Queen from my alternate pack of cards that I’m designing this is The Sycamore Hare Queen…. A Much more beneficent monarch than her eight limbed sister. She is married to the north wind and high priestess of the moon and three sisters

A playing card with a hare like Queen holding a full moon… she has a flowing blue cape that represents the wind.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm working on a card game that could absolutely be played with a normal everyday set of cards... but thematically it would be lovely if they were slightly strange so I've been working on these... I present our antagonist The Quene of Thorney Gossamer (I'm not sure about the archaic spelling)

A playing card front of a queen card that shows a spider based queen with eight arms holding a thread that wraps around her. She has eight eyes and is smiling with hungry intensity.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Small Prophets was lovely, hard going in places for me just because of the dementia side but ultimately beautiful... also one of my Pupils in the last episode!

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is lovely… it got me thinking tho, which uk children’s show theme should be covered by which artist? youtu.be/e3o5FIXoK84?...

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Lady Gaga Original

YouTube video by Rocket

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

For those of you on the run up to the UK tax return deadline... You've got this! I believe in you!

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

What did Roxy do when she opened the traitors envelope in the castle for them not to show it on uncloaked? She must have kicked the chair through the wall! #traitors #roxy

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Harmony Angel reporting for duty at the round table

Steven from The Traitors heading the walk to the round table dressed in a grey orange and black 70’s style jumpsuit and looking like a character from a Gerry Anderson TV show

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Had a little cry at this wonderful play by my friend @paulmagrs.bsky.social . @bafflegabble.bsky.social have done a brilliant job of bringing this clever script to life and James Bowlam and Louise Jameson are treasures in it too! Go listen! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Goblin King and Me

A story about a real-life encounter with David Bowie, marking ten years since his passing.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I do kind of want to know which is Elon's favourite 'Carry on' film is.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Coined the phrase “tighter than a toddlers fist holding on to a cheese string” just now… pretty proud of it tbh… will try to use it in conversation tomorrow.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Looking forward to seeing how this guy turns out!

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I’ve made a pretty little star map puzzle for a thing I’m doing… I’ll put the text clue in the reply’s if you want to have a go… it’s one of the simpler puzzles in the set and just supposed to be an Aha! Moment.

A black and white “Star Map” of the fictional Tiptree Galaxy

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/08/2025

I've got a back to the future detectorists print with a dent/tear at the bottom, free to a randomly selected good home. Follow/Like/Repost/Reply to be in with a chance of getting it.

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Is anyone a puzzle fan? I'm looking for people to be testers for something I'm putting together... it would just be the odd a4 head scratcher to have a go at... apply below x #puzzles #escaperoom #games 🧩

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Reading @sachacoward.bsky.social Queer as Folklore in the dappled sunlight of a tree. Lovely way to spend an afternoon.

A man lying on a sun lounger with a copy of Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward on his chest

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Just seen a headline “benefits u-turn may haunt Prime minister” and I just thought, not exactly M. R. James is it?

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IanH Creative force of nature @ianhayles.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I’m loving Glastonbury but I’d love a Musical Theatre stage… like just imagine after Buster Rhymes the cast of Phantom get up and belt out a few numbers… or The 1975 supported by Death Becomes Her… it would be brilliant

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