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Richard Blandford

@rblandford.bsky.social
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Author of wrong fiction. #actuallyautistic richardblandford.blogspot.co.uk New novel My Life in Orbit out now.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm probably going to disappear for a slight bit, not in a huff or anything, but I'm curious to rediscover what life was like before someone turned the opinion tap on. If anyone needs me for anything, I'm incredibly easy to find.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Look, I wrote a semi-autobiographical novel explaining everything. I'm not sure what more I can do for people.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think most middle-aged people who are now nice are haunted by their nineties selves, who were arseholes.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Diana dying was weird because I thought of her as someone from the eighties. It was like Simon le Bon had died and everyone was ridiculously sad.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Willy Wonka loves making chocolate but hates any kid who eats it. I wonder if that says anything about Dahl's relationship with his readers.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Was thinking I need a Roald Dahl-type writing shed but then remembered everyone would think it was my 'writing' shed.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please look at this Cezanne with me for one minute. #mindfulness #meditation #innercalm #sweetcorn
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Devastated to discover my posse are doing a podcast without me.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please look at this Cezanne with me for one minute. #mindfulness #meditation #innercalm #sweetcorn
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wales. Very good but insufficient signage in some areas.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
At the Caerphilly cheese festival in the pissing rain. Can't find any cheese.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cold Turkey by John Lennon is the world's only song written for the Boxing Day market.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lost in a world of broken interactive museum displays.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Got that painting you wanted.
A painting of naked male hikers in the mountains.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Add this to your dating profile.
A wall sign that says 'This machine is for grown-ups only'.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reading Cold Comfort Farm. What gets lost these days is that it's partly a parody of Gone to Earth by Mary Webb, which of course was adapted by Powell and Pressberger.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He's pining for the fjords.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dead wasp sculpture outside a visitor centre.
Giant wicker dead wasps on poles above a seating area.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Someone left the Clarkson in the rain.
An ad for Clarkson's pies in a torrential downpour
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I had no idea Top Gear hasn't been on for four years. What programme have the country's arseholes been watching in the meantime?
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Homemade Wicker Man at the Morbitorium, Caerphilly.
A wicker man sculpture with a policeman doll inside in a garden.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Flora from Cold Comfort Farm is autistic as fuck, just sayin'.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sometimes I wish I never went down the rabbit burrow rabbit hole.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Public sculptures are usually shit. They should put things like Rodin's The Kiss on roundabouts instead because they're better.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I did once have the idea of a podcast that worked its way through every Tim Curry film and TV appearance, just to see where it would take you.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For when you're fresh out of Hughs.
A picture hanging in a castle of a man called 'Hugh Despenser'.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ok this is just getting silly now.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Four Tops' follow-up record, 'Goin' Silly Down in Caerphilly' was not a success.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Barry Island pleasure park man shouting through his microphone, 'Are you screaming or crying? Do you want to stay on or get off? It's an easy question.'
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Barry Island pleasure park man shouting through his microphone, 'Are you screaming or crying? Do you want to stay on or get off? It's an easy question.'
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Techno has been making fairgrounds unpleasant since the early 90s.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Museums. Please arrange your stuff in roughly the order things happened instead of contextless conceptual displays. You're not upholding the patriarchy or anything by having it make some sort of historical sense. IT'S FINE.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'My name is Bruce in town and Hulk in the country.'
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not sure whether to read a not-very-good Hulk comic while on holiday or an improving book.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Will the 80s revival ever end? It's been going on 25 years now.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Better to be Rick-rollin' than Nick Knowlin'.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Don't need a credit card to ride this train. In fact it's cash only. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Coffee machine acknowledging the existence of a 'White Americano'.
As described.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Booked Stewart Lee tickets. They're restricted view, which is the best view.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back in Wales, a place I left when I was five, expecting to be received as a conquering hero.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a Premier Inn, where every room is a tribute to the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
An intrusively purple ambient light above a bed.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I auditioned for The Piano but they didn't like how I smashed it up with an axe.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Is it too late to make a claim for being Princess Anastasia?
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What if Crosby and Stills discovered they could create an incredible and unique harmony with Bill Oddie?
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every time I go into Worthing town centre, the eateries have been replaced by different eateries. Except Greggs. Greggs is everlasting.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Feel like I need a jumper but I can't make the switch. I no longer consider myself a jumper person.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Henry Cyril Paget will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In an unexpected development, the pharmacist was singing Daydream by the Lovin' Spoonful to herself.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I contend that the High School Musical soundtrack is one of the most influential albums of the 21st Century.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Geese were quite brave with that band name, considering the lead singer's voice.
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