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Tom Pugh

@tompugh13.bsky.social
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Farmer, writer, sleepy.

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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Parasol Mushroom, one of several we saw in Herefordshire over the weekend #funghi #nature
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Funghi of all descriptions seemed to have popped up over the last couple weeks, including this on a tree stump. #mushrooms #nature
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My Around the World in 80,000 Pages challenge continues in the Welsh Marches. Let a Sleeping Witch Lie is a very enjoyable collection of gothic stories from little known author Elizabeth Walter. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/let-... #booksky #literature #worldliterature #books
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Let a Sleeping Witch Lie: Welsh Gothic Stories by Elizabeth Walter
Around the World in 80,000 Pages - Book 20 Let a Sleeping Witch Lie: Welsh Gothic Stories by Elizabeth Walter  You can read about my Aroun...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As the digestive tract of life gurgles with the futility of our existence, another sicky burp that is Friday makes its presence known. 16 words/phrases. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you like strange fiction, I strongly recommend you pick up Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung. A collection of ghost stories that is actually a novel. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung Translated by Anton Hur Disclaimer: I'm rather behind on my reviews, so they will be super brief until I ...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have caught up with blog entries for my Around the World in 80,000 Pages challenge. After 19 books, I am just in my second country, Wales. #https://theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/around-world-in-80000-pages.html #booksky #literature #worldliterature #books
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@g0blinegg.bsky.social I was listening to one of your podcasts about sineaters the other day, and wondered if you had read The Sin-Eater, a short story by Elizabeth Walter?
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This week I have been mostly ploughing #shropshire #farming
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As the boomerang of life flies through the outback of eternity, another Friday koala stares gormlessly into the middle distance of our ultimate doom. 16 words/phrases. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As the weather cools and the ground begins to dampen after a ridiculous summer, we enter mushroom season #mushrooms #funghi #nature #shropshire
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My blog catch-up of my Around the World in 80,000 Pages continues apace as we reach Hardy's Wessex. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... #booksky #literature #books
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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Around the World in 80,000 Pages - Book 13 Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy You can read about my Around the World in 80,000 Pages cha...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A dragonfly what I saw yesterday. #shropshire #wildlife #dragons #flys
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am rather behind on my book blog, and my Around the World in 80,000 Pages challenge, but I'm catching up and have got as far as St Albans, and Bleak House. theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/blea... #booksky #literature #dickins
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Around the World in 80,000 Pages - Book 10 Bleak House by Charles Dickins You can read about my Around the World in 80,000 Pages challenge...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the mobility scooter of life wobbles down the pavement of eternity we hit the uneven slab that is another Friday, lurching alarmingly toward the road of our own demise. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As the saucepan of life boils dry on the unwatched oven of eternity a hardboiled egg that is Friday explodes up the wall of another week. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holmes: Undead No 3 is coming to Kickstarter soon, follow the campaign now to make sure you don't miss out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas... #comics #sherlockholmes
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Coming soon: Holmes: Undead Issue 3
The Napoleon Of Crime
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have an article in EnWorld's science fantasy magazine, for their Advanced 5E system (highly compatible with 5.5) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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Alpha Star Magazine Issue 3: Sci-Fi Resources for D&D & A5E
Alpha Star Magazine Issue 3! The quarterly magazine with sci-fi content compatible with the core D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As the thunderstorm of life rolls off over the hills of eternity, we step in another deceptively deep Friday puddle. What's better than 15 maps? Yep, 16 maps. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As the playground of time heaves with the fractious children of destiny, the little brat which is Friday sits halfway down the slide once again, refusing to move. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Spreading muck under heavy skies #farming
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fly my pretties! Always looking for new penpals on Roost. I am @tp1983
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As the lawn of life wilts away under the endless oppressive sun of existence, we tread in another desiccated dog turd that is Friday. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Archipelago do amazing books, and you buy 30% more with this offer.
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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To celebrate the brilliant women on our list, we're offering a 30% discount on titles by women writers or works translated by women. Use the code WOMENOFARCHIPELAGO today through August 31st. Get buying: archipelagobooks.org/books/.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As the garden shed of life gets ever fuller with the useless detritus of our existence, we reach the rusty lawnmower of Friday once again. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As the mincing machine of life grinds our weeks into a bland lifeless pulp, the gristly bit of Friday clogs our spout once again. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oo, that's on my to read list
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking for a spanner earlier, I googled "what is the imperial equivalent of 19mm". Wasn't expecting that answer.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As the carousel of time spins ever on, Friday comes round again, we grin and smile and wave at our diurnal child, before they disappear behind a fibreglass hippopotamus once more. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Urgent freelance art commission! My previous arrangement has fallen through, so I need someone who can look at this sad lil' placeholder kaiju and whip up a proper, looming, nicely lit and atmospherically appropriate monster I can place into this same composition. Feel free to reply here- THREAD 🧵
The mock-up cover of my Kaiju Agonistes digital novelette
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
D&D tonight, with my custom decorated screen
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Whenever I see copper pipe junctions I have an urge to make Necromunda scenery. Haven't played Necromunda in years.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Friday comes, and Friday goes, leaving nothing but a sense of the void which we all float meaningless through. And a word wall. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Nations Championship is producing some very entertaining rugby. I reckon it will do Japan no end of good in their development.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I keep forgetting to use tags on my posts. So here's another with a few of the accursed things. Holmes: Undead No 2 has stormed past its goal, but we reckon you good folks have the strength of character to get it to $1000... www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas... #comics #indiecomics #sherlockholmes
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're funded! But let's see if we can get to $1000 (£745.68). Holmes: Undead No 2 on Kickstarter now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
An exciting day today, as I start a new notebook
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Back to a regular, common or garden, word wall. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We are now to within a tater of funding Holmes: Undead No 2. Some of you have already backed it, and you are awesome. Some of you haven't backed it, and you are also awesome, but you could be awesome and have a copy of Holmes: Undead - so what are you waiting for! www.kickstarter.com/.../cas.../h...
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's been a while since I've done a picture round, so 'ere you go. 16 faces. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Variety is the spice of life. Two days ago I was writing about space goblins performing cybernetic surgery. Today I am patching up a 49 year old silage trailer.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Issue 2 of Holmes: Undead is available on Kickstarter NOW,! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...
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Holmes: Undead Issue 2
The Sussex Vampire
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Mike Myler @mikemyler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Featuring writing and design by @ronarscorruption.bsky.social @andrewengelbrite.bsky.social @tompugh13.bsky.social @mkenobi.bsky.social and dozens more who either are not yet on Bluesky or have handles I do not immediately remember!
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My latest book is only available in Japanese and only to attendees of TrollCon in Nagoya (for the time being anyway).
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My, my tis Friday again. 16 words. Can you split them into four groups of four, with a link for each? #WQuers #puzzle #onlyconnect #wordpuzzle
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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 15/06/2026
Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
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Cyberrats in Space
Rats. Mechs. Revenge.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh13.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Games night and we playing The Sheep
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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I don't know if I wrote it here but my kickstarter launches tomorrow at four o'clock (16:00) UK time! I'm excited it's going to be goblin day all day.
a photo of a goblin knight miniature
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