#OnThisDay 1918: Celebrated performer, author, poet, musician, painter, actor, environmental campaigner, conservationist, cartoonist and Goon, Spike Milligan was born.

In this clip, Milligan chats about his faith, his failures and how he would like to be remembered.

We have a lot of MPs backing us! It’s a big story! It’s happening fast! It matters! We have data! We have takes!

Have you noticed sometimes you go on IG and it says 'x mentioned you in a story'? You might as well write me a message on a tissue and throw it in a pond.

A moment of inspiration in a café sparks a memory in Karóly Bálint's Metaphor by Richard Smyth

Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Smyth talking about otherness and reading from his short story at fictionable.world

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Morning.

NICE WEATHER FOR FOOTBALL

'They might turn out to be naturalists, but it doesn't matter if they don't. They'll find their own way into it all, and they'll figure out, soon enough, what they want to *do* about it all. Maybe just watch. Maybe just think. Maybe just care. That's fine too.'

The white sea of millions of tesserae that decorate the floor of the newly discovered black room in Region 9, #Pompeii
#MosaicMonday

Hello dear friends. If you like my writing, my compilations for Ace Records, or pop music from the 20th century, you might want to take a look at my Patreon. Starting a week tomorrow: patreon.com/bobstanley

Morning.

'I think that's a *fancy* prison,' says my daughter, as the train passes HMP Armley.

I'm popping all these lovely old things up for sale in my stories at instagram.com/lauralupinsells today (prices starting at just 25p!), but please feel free to message me here for pricing or more info if there's anything you're interested in xx

Odd ask, I know, but if anyone has any experience with dealing with legal professionals in Africa (particularly East Africa, and following up criminal cases) I could do with some broad advice. DMs open

What's this building across St James Park, please?

Happy seventh birthday to my little book on birdsong. hive.co.uk/Product/Richar…

Morning.

There are house sparrows in the blue tit nest this year. More news as we have it.

DIVERSIFICATION NEWS: would anyone like to commission one of these? The one on the left is from my first novel, the one on the right is from A Christmas Carol - but I could do one of your book, or a favourite book, or whatever. DM me!

They're playing a version of Show Me Heaven in the pub, I don't know who it's by but it's not by Maria McKee, what the fuck

*sacred music*