Reposted by Wayne ConnollyGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk 39583
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11hThe Interrail sale ends today with some passes at half price. I have a three month unlimited pass and I'm buzzing about the number of trains I can ride all over Europe next year. 230
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When will politicians stop talking about the bloody housing ladder and ‘encouraging’ developers, and start building homes for people to live in? 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Miklos, mate, don’t wear a sloppy joe on a date. It makes you look like a kid who hasn’t learned to dress himself yet. 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026For most of my life I used to watch tv all the time. And then I stopped. That doesn’t make me a better person, but it gives me a lot more time for other things. Reading and music, mostly. 210
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I was in the Kunstmuseum in Basel last week, and this painting made me stop and stare. John the Baptist by Juan Bautista Maino. 130
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Does anyone know where this is? It’s a stock image attached to an article on the Museums Association’s website, and it’s just about the worst display of paintings I’ve ever seen. 100
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mamdani is giving away 70,000 free Met opera tickets. Burnham wants people (ie blokes) to be able to drink beer in football stands. Now I like football and beer, and I don't kike opera, but I know whose side I'm on. 110
Reposted by Wayne ConnollyJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm scheduling anthologies for the autumn and winter, so if you love short stories and can narrow that love down to JUST 12 STORIES and write about them, then get in touch! You'll be joining 300+ previous guest editors and helping build an archive that now features 3,600+ story recommendations!apersonalanthology.comA Personal AnthologyWriters, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories 046
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026After flying home from Geneva last weekend I now have a raging bout of flu or something worse. The whole journey home was terrible - overcrowded airports, long shuffling boarding queues and packed planes. Flying really is the worst way to travel. 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Pickled eggs!!??! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhat food items should you stock up on in case of an emergency?Extreme weather may be changing the way we need to shop, with the UK government urging people to stock up on canned goods. 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Having spent a lot of time in Wetherspoons in dismal Durham towns, I can see they have an important social function. Old people meet their friends for lunch, lonely middle aged men enjoy a burger and pint(!), families out for a cheap tea. Hubbub of conversation everywhere. Nationalise Spoons now... 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s World Gratitude Day, so I’m going to thank Jemima who donated her stem cells to treat my blood cancer, and then two years later, her lymphocyte cells to rescue me from relapse into leukaemia. Without her, I almost certainly wouldn’t be here today. 1276
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hans Holbein the younger and Egon Schiele in the Kunstmuseum Basel, five centuries apart. 120
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That feeling when you glimpse one of your favourite paintings in the next room of the gallery. Kunstmuseum Basel. 040
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I’ve spent too much of my holiday in Switzerland looking at pen knives, trying to find the perfect combination of all the gadgets I need. It doesn’t exist. 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A very telling story of the Fraumünster in Zurich. A succession of 29 abbesses was broken by the Reformation in 1524, and followed by 27 male pastors. The Reformists took all the colour out until Chagall put it back. 130
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026From Bonjour to Guten Morgen. Yesterday it took ten hours to get from Geneva to Zurich using five trains and a suitcase full of unhealthy snacks. Today will be a day of idle mooching and proper food. Los geht's! 110
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bloomin heck, Switzerland #GoldenPassExpress 020
Reposted by Wayne ConnollySparkAlistair @alistairspark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026He nearly took the net off 😱 #OliverIrow scored this belter for #PlymouthArgyle in their win over #Barnsley 👏 #Plymouth #PAFC #LeagueOne #England #footballnews #footballculture #news #football #soccer #bluesky #viral #fyp #calcio #fútbol #futebol #futbol #fotboll #fußball #fussball #voetbal 2145
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Unexpected takes from Geneva: - the best Mexican food I’ve ever tasted - the number of prostitutes on street corners - everybody looks like they’re a long way from home - a city in which I feel entirely at ease 030
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Looks like there's a Swiss referendum on the way 110
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child: - monsters under the bed - monsters in the wardrobe - monsters in the attic - enclosed spaces (boxes, cupboards, coffins) - my willy falling off 040
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm not sure the Reformation was quite for me. Give me the icons and paintings any day. #GenevaCathedral. 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sat at a cafe in Geneva watching four people with a fondue at the next table. It looks like the least fun you can have with a loaf of bread. 040
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm in Switzerland and found this in the hotel minibar. A snip at 6 francs. And now I can't get the song out of my head. 'Triangular honey from triangular bees...' 140
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A couple of highlights of a touristy day in Paris - the Sacré‐Cœur and Musée d'Orsay 010
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Well, I'm in that France and I have to say that belting towards Paris at 180 mph is a very pleasant exoerience. 110
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Slim fit XXLARGE is the best menswear joke I've seen this year. 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I can't believe it has taken me over 50 years to find out that this is the same woman 141
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026All I can say is that I'm glad no one tried to teach me Voyage in the Dark and write an essay on it. Or any of my other favourite novels. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...theguardian.com‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teachA new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of reading 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It’s just pronunciation. It doesn’t matter. youtu.be/UpIT1W5wf-0?... 110
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Back in the Oxfam bookshop and I'm in charge of the music! Today we start with Hypnoprism by Monus. 140
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Overheard in the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland today: 'No, I'm going to Wetherspoons. It's common.' So here I am in Spoons with a post-tour pint of Poretti, being a commoner. 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When I was 5 years old my older cousin Julie put me in a big cardboard box and sat on it so I couldn't get out. 55 years later I had a panic attack during an MRI scan and don't think I could ever have one again. The past comes back at you eventually. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comA moment that changed me: I had a panic attack on public transport – and it led me to a horrifying secretFor a decade I lived with a fear so bad that I once tried to climb out of a tube carriage while it was in motion. Then a hypnotherapist told me to ask my parents one very important question 100
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"ChatGPT, where are my glasses? I can't find my glasses. I know I left them here somewhere..." 020
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The weather’s changing and I have a yen to buy a chunky cardigan. Please somebody stop me… 200
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm a fairly passive person, not to mention a coward, but I'd happily go to war on 'motorists' to stop them killing children so they can drive how and where they like. 120
Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026How about 10 acts you've seen that were very disappointing, just to show how smug you are: Jesus and Mary Chain Bruce Springsteen David Bowie (Serious Moonlight) Sonic Youth Lambchop Antony and the Johnsons The Adverts Primal Scream Cowboy Junkies Meat Puppets 420