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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice walk in a wood. Couple of amanitas, muscaria and rubescens...? And, I think, a brittlegill. #fungi

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello, here is your occasional reminder that a whole load of my essays, reviews, short stories and other things can be found HERE, on my web-site, thank you for your attention to this matter. richarddsmyth.com

richarddsmyth.com

Richard Smyth

Writer for hire. Reviews, essays, features.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay, a new Slow Horses series out, and a CT scan report that says "No immediate cause for concern." A couple of tentative footholds in the quaking global morass of misery... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A small flurry of orders recently suggests that some kind soul might have given my self-published work a mention. Thanks. It's not been the best of years, so it's nice to be reminded that, even if currently shirking, I am still a slave of the Word. lepusbooks.co.uk

lepusbooks.co.uk

Writing for the Hell of it...

*NEW TITLE* Available to purchase from September 18, 2023. Click logo image to view _____________________________________________________________________ LEPUS BOOKS is...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Five scant minutes of rain this morning, after weeks of continuous sun. Barely settled the fucking dust.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Topping up a pond in a heatwave hosepipe ban to keep your fish alive is an illegal and immoral waste of water... meanwhile, data centres...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Listening to the audio edition of Moore's "I Hear a New World" in garden shade, but a combination of oppressive heat and plump velvet cushions of prose are proving irresistibly soporific.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Beginning to feel we're in one of those wildlife documentaries where forlorn animals cluster despondent around a shrinking water hole...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Okay... that's enough now. Fuck dignity, I'm putting on some shorts.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An "adults only" camp site is not what you may suspect... merely an absence of children, replaced by ghastly pampered dogs. Personally, I think I'd rather have the children.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When first you arrive at your rural UK campsite, the sound of a song thrush calling atop an adjacent tree is delightful; after three days of trilling - non-stop from 03:30 to 21:30 - frankly you could do without it. #birds

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I guess that having your GP practice phone hold music playing as an earworm in your head for 24 hours is a sign you've lately not been well...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Looks as if the local common lizard colony has survived another winter...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As someone just a year behind him, I commiserate...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voted. Took small pleasure in ignoring the smug, creepily friendly Reform chump running an exit poll.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Weird spring day. Surprisingly warm. Sat in garden lulled by drone of bees. Retired indoors; ate a pleasant meal. Spent the next several hours watching two houses in the terrace opposite reduced by fire to ruins. Thought about instant homelessness. Thought about missiles howling down from the sky

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Just finished listening to audiobook of Patti Smith's memoir Bread of Angels. She reads it herself. Poetic and soporific. Can recommend if you like that sort of thing...

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Duncan Batey @duncanbatey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Enjoying Leepus: Dizzy by @jamiedelano.bsky.social of Hellblazer fame. In the ever-present tense of 'Inglund', and the dystopian aftermath of The Reduction, our hero fields unexpected challenges from nearly all remaining powers that be - to his friends, his home, possibly to his own identity...

Book cover image, title in block capital red at the top on dun background, author name in small block capital white on black at the bottom. Main image of a silhouetted water tower and trees with birds flying around them against a red and white background

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Fucking potholes, eh? I blame our Reform council.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Just a reminder. They seem pretty cheap for the moment...

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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

very cool. In case people are interested here's your interview about book thirteen tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/he...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ailments: irritations that in youth generally come and go, but after a certain age accumulate relentless.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Recording of second audiobook in three months nearing completion; heartily sick now of the sound of my own voice. One more to go. I may thereafter consider a vow of silence.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In poker terms he's a 'maniac' who thinks he's a fucking 'eagle'. We're all the bloody chips.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Damn pigeons and collared doves are convinced it's spring; their constant amorous vocalisations outside my studio window are not conducive to calm audiobook recording.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Can't imagine Trump is going to let the woman who won 'his' Nobel Peace Prize assume the presidency of Venezuela.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"The Sentence": 40,000 unpunctuated single-syllable words, written by @fruishfruish.bsky.social and performed by Daniel Copeland is now available to listen to here fruishon.co.uk Well worth the effort.

fruishon.co.uk

Fruishon – You have come to Fruishon

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Watched The Traitors for the first (and probably last) time, just to see... Weird celebration of self-absorbed mendacity and deception. Very 21st century.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Kitchen still life. Happy New Year.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Fascists v tsunami of righteous loathing.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

His work wants to send my unwilling son to US for a conference. He has to fill out intrusive online application and have personal interview at embassy. He's praying they reject him.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Christmas from Lepus Books lepusbooks.co.uk

"All the elegant charm of a traditional English Village Christmas"
MERRY CHRISTMAS
And here's to at least surviving 2026
Image shows a straggle of Chistmas lights haphazardly draped around a caravan and car with a dejected semi-deflated Grinch collapsed across its bonnet

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Waking at an ungodly hour from a mess of disturbing dreams. Drinking tea to calm yourself and stupidly turning the news on...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Not wishing to bore with repetitious mentions, but my novel, BOOK THIRTEEN (written as A William James), is now available via Audible. My two LEEPUS novels will follow in due course, once my vocal cords are restored. www.audible.com/pd/B0G5D2FX4...

audible.com

Book Thirteen

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Book Thirteen” is the darkly comic debut prose novel of established comic book scriptwriter, Jamie Delano and published under his pen-name, A. William Jame...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/12/2025

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You'd think it would be quite difficult to misplace a sledgehammer in and around a relatively small house with limited outbuildings... but it seems I have done that.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I have a few codes for promo copies of this, so the first five people who respond and express a desire to hear it are welcome. Shout and I'll follow you back and provide code via 'chat'.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

So, after a labourious couple of months of self-recording and mastering, my first novel, BOOK THIRTEEN, is now available in an audio edition via Audible and Apple Books etc. If anyone wants to invest a monthly credit and give it a star or two, I'd be grateful. Recommended for insomniacs.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Re the fuckwit Farage: of course, in my experience, the 60s and 70s were rife with both casual and vindictive racism, in the playground and beyond; later those unenlightened took it underground. Farage and his ilk, unreformed throughout, dug it up and waved its rotten corpse in our faces.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Overdiagnosis blah blah. I reckon those not stressed to the point of derangement and beyond by being forced to survive the sick society we have created are the aberrant cohort.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Tedious day spent setting up a new Mac. Hopefully this one will be future proof sufficient to see me out. Also, if you haven't already saved a note of your app licences and subscriptions I suggest you do it now; failure results in tedious complications and expense.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

'Smorgasbord' is a word I never want to hear again post this fucking budget.

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