Nicola is a fine write, and this looks brilliant.

Booked my train ticket & looking forward to talking fantasy worldbuilding!
Hay Festival

Please join me in praying for the well-being and swift release of Laylan Nasser, a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, in the West Bank, snatched from her family by Israeli troops at 4am on Saturday without giving any reason or saying where she is being held

Keith is a magnificent illustrator.

This is a brilliantly depressing read about the slow death of a great institution. I expect Keir Starmer's response will be more privatisation. Yippee.

Sudden sharp stab of memory: playing cowboys and Indians as a kid. Irretrievably lost now, that game, that life. Somewhere there must be the last person ever to have played it, unironically. I wonder if it was me... 'What are you playing, our Tony?' 'We're playing scalping, mam.'

If you can face it, do please pop over to my substack and enjoy a weekly dose of my failing and incompetence. anthonymcgowan.substack.com/p/a-case-of-mi….

Lovely, kind words here from Mathew.

Chris is a really fine writer, and I'd be astounded if this isn't brilliant.

Stumbled on a kind review of my poor little book, The Art of Failing. fellfromfiction.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/the… via Michael J Ritchie 📚

Want an insight in to my writing routine? Probably not, but if you did, this is the place! famouswritingroutines.com/interviews/int…

Has there ever been a worse band than KISS? Well, yes, of course. But a worse famous band? Hard to think of any.

Walked past this tree in Golders Hill. And I suddenly thought that if I were a giant, I'd take great delight in doing precisely this to trees - breaking them in half, and leaving them at just that angle. Snap, snap, snap. It made me really want to be a giant.

A Case of Mistaken Identity, by Anthony McGowan open.substack.com/pub/anthonymcg…

Stroked my daughter's head on my way to the kitchen, giving us both a sharp static shock. I said it was because of my MRI scan the other day. 'He's constructing his superhero origin story,' she said.

Is boasting about your sourdough still a thing on t'internet? Here's one I made this morning.

Revels arranged to best to worst (L-R). Could you possibly disagree?

Such a great designer.