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I love writing, reading, kindness, old films, people who are good at what they do, cooking and cheese. I hate bigots, people who buy the top twenty best-sellers for show, and anything in aspic. The Book Abattoir is out now. Website: wellandbooks.com

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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 6m
Hell Drivers. Brilliant cast. A who's who of British post-war cinema. Fantastic film!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 4h
What a wonderful actor he was.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 4h
Bit disrespectful to the gibbons, I know!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 4h
The way James Mason says, "Rapid City, South Dakota" with that rising incredulous intonation is brilliant. One of the best voices in Hollywood history.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 4h
These are the staffers who really were responsible. Must be DEI hires!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 4h
Absolutely!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 5h
Reform- slightly better dressed and spoken version of MAGA, but still morons.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 5h
The trouble is that however moronic the MAGA multitude, when they come out with shit like this, not one person among the right wing ever steps forward to correct them unlike the noble John McCain, the last conservative one could respect
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 5h
Not only a brillaintly executed performance (as he always gives), but a chillingly accurate description of the barbarity that is Trump, Miller and MAGA. They won't understand it, even if you drew pictures. Thank you for posting this.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 6h
We need A LOT more of this today! Thank you for posting this.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 6h
In a movement populated by idiots, charlatans and morons, this waste of human DNA stands out as particularly atrocious. The scary thing is, while most of them don't believe a word of their own rhetoric, this slimeball appears to have not only drunk the Kool-Aid, he pisses it as well.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 7h
The USA resembles Putin's Russia more and more - everything in the hands of a very few. The difference is that if you disagree with Trump, he whines and cries about it on his pathetic unTruth social. With Putin, you end up falling out of a window or novichocked. Trump is jealous.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 8h
Another extract from my book of linked stories from an Andalusian village - The Monteverde Chronicles, coming soon. #WIPSnips #IndieAuthor #StoriesSetInSpain #WritingCommunity
Text excerpt from a novel about Charlie and Lorenzo, both drunk, walking three miles to Espejo with lager and cheese to serenade Elena. Charlie plays a harmonica while Lorenzo sings to an amused crowd, including two policemen. Lorenzo offers Elena a crushed bunch of flowers, and she calls him “Dickhead.”
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 16h
Or maybe it's his Freddie and the Dreamers dance? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoU1...
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Freddie And The Dreamers "You Were Made For Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 19h
I thought Skydance was the sequel to Riverdance.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 19h
"Did you or did you not hollow out your head, carve holes and place candles inside?" "Sir, that was Jack O'Lantern"
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 19h
This really looks like the set of a Bond film. Just needs Oddjob and some machine guns!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 19h
"Were you or were you not heavyweight champion of the world?" "Sir, that was Jack Dempsey." "Did you or did you not break your crown when fetching a pale of water and your partner also fell after you?" "Sir, that was Jack and Jill."
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 20h
When our house in Peterborough burnt down when I was ten years old in 1976, we stayed there for about a month until we rented a house in Fotheringhay. I remember it like it was yesterday!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 20h
Ironically, my late father was a lifelong Spurs fan!🤣
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 20h
I spent nearly a month in Ukraine in 2018 on a lecture tour about English teaching. I was in Kiiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhie and Kharkhiv and I was welcomed like family. May you find peace (through Victory) and a new, rebuilt, stonger Ukraine.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 21h
My parents took us to Vegas when I was ten. I don't remember much except Circus Circus so this film is a great reminder! Mr Wint and Mr Kidd totally creepy henchmen!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 23h
I still love this film after seeing it so many times.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 23h
He claims he loves America. The problem is, he hates Americans who aren't exactly like him.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 23h
The only reason Trump loves him? The clue is in the name - KID
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 23h
Wonderful film that contains a line that made me want to be a writer "all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period." Genius!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others" Every Groucho quote is a gem!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Love the verse!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
This is from the castle in Budva, Montenegro. It's trying to hide, but here it is!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
It's so strange but all these reports are coming out the week my short novel, The Book Abattoir comes out which is about this. I got the inspiration from a BBC article.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
These two have also been identified as potentially responsible.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Always enjoyed her movies. The VIPs, The Importance of Being Earnest- wonderful!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
My favourite Tim Burton movie. Superb.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Horrible, despicable person. Braverman is just trying to get money from MAGA like Farage. These people are a blight on Britain.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Best thing I have seen all week! Thank you 👍
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Or use the word "rock" in relation to what passes as his "music".
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
I am absolutely convinced that they will make a Broadway show based entirely on his lies. Trumptown, the Musical
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Would that it were a World day of non-violence every day and that it was universally observed. So, I guess I'll have to go for body language day and sit here with one eyebrow raised and a rueful smile. Or is that indigestion?
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
The Taking of Pelham 123 was utterly brilliant. The music, the acting, the direction. The only thing that makes me smile is Robert Shaw only asking for one million dollars. Inflation kills moments like these!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
Yesterday, I said "Maybe we should start a thread"Other places where Jack Smith wasn't. "I'll start. On July 14th 1789, Jack Smith was not at the storming of the Bastille." Where else wasn't he?
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
"Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder." "Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder." "That tears it." They don't write them like that any more. My favourite movie❤️
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
This was the inspiration behind my mini-novel, The Book Abattoir. We stand to lose far more than we gain.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
I dunno. Third Base! Genius. I actually tried to translate that for my Colombian wife once. She knew nothing about baseball. It did not go well!
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
This is taken from Ronda 81, as short story set in a ghost village in rural Spain when Carolina from Social Services and Diego, a Seprona Guardia Civil policemen meet a strange man called Istvan. #WIPSnips #IndieAuthor #WritingComunity #StoriesSetInSpain
Text excerpt from the short story Ronda 81. Carolina discusses a man named Istvan with Diego and they talk about Diego's work with SEPRONA, his rural background and desire to protect the rural way of life. She and Istvan agree to follow up on a damaged Kangoo van with no number plate. Carolina then reports to Señor Villanueva, who says they will eventually bring the man “into the system.”
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 02/10/2026
As an English teacher for twenty years, I can say with confidence that snobbery plays a substantial part.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 01/10/2026
I am pleased! I love Pushkin. If you like that and want something surreal and bizarre, check out Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita! :)
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend this if you don't know it. Pushkin is one of my favourites.
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 01/10/2026
Doesn't that remind you of Stephen Miller talking immigration policy to Trump in the Oval Office?
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Richard Green | Welland Books @wellandbooks.com · 01/10/2026
Like I said, I bet his after work hang is the Blue Oyster
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