@kevinboniface
Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38 Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
20 years as an Independent publisher.
Our books & authors short listed or won 31 lit prizes.
2 books adapted for BBC TV.
1 book in production in Hollywood.
And made so many friends too.
Magic.
@thebookseller.com
Full-on AI fascism. Oddly, ‘his’ singing accent carries strong traces of MLE (Multicultural London English).
Mondeo and Crap Shrubs 2007, a low resolution digital photograph of a green Ford Mondeo (side view) parked in front of a terrace of houses with two battered and windswept (Cypress?) shrubs in the garden.
A higher resolution digital photograph of the same location taken yesterday. The scene is much the same except both the Mondeo and the shrubs are gone. There's a car parked in approximately the same place as the Mondeo was but I don't know what kind — a big grey thing with massive alloy wheels like they all are these days. Eee lad, I remember when it wa' all fields round 'ere.
Going through the photographs on an old hard drive I found 'Mondeo and Crap Shrubs 2007' which obviously meant I then had to go out and find the same spot and re-photograph it.
Round About Town
Friday, 13 March 2020
I ask the woman in the bath robe and slippers with her hair all stuck up on one side whether she’ll take in a parcel for her neighbour. “No” she says, “I’m just off out”.
Customers and workers are suffering because of Royal Mail’s poor service.
We need action, and we need it now.
If you are a postal worker, write to your MP using the link below 👇
#StandByYourPostie
www.cwu.org/mp-stand-by-your-postie
And the mail 😬
And the bins
Today’s the day all the camellias blow away
Photo of page of text, a diary entry: Thursday, 29 May (2014) Four women in their thirties pass me near the junction box that has been vandalised with the slogan ‘WALTER SCOTT IS A BATTY BOY’. They walk two abreast, arms folded tight, the hoods of their bathrobes pulled over their heads against the driving rain. The old man whose garden smells of chives is putting out his bins. He watches the women pass and rolls his eyes, blood from a nosebleed congealing thickly on his top lip.
Photograph of the side of a grey junction box vandalised with the slogan WALTER SCOTT IS A BATTY BOY. Also, I've just noticed there's a large bee in the shot, just above the 'R' in 'WALTER'.
Round About Town
Thursday, May 29 2014
An old Toyota Corolla decorated with poorly applied decals of scorpions rounds the bend at the top of the hill. It skids slightly as it pulls up against the kerb. The driver waits for Queen's I Want to Break Free to finish before turning off the ignition and climbing out.
If I do have ‘a fab day’ it’ll be in spite of this and not because of it
Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, preorderable at thecoastofeverything.com.
Customer: You’re the regular postman, yeah?
Me: yeah
Customer: You look different
Me: Oh, how come?
Customer: Well, from a distance you look like a real health freak but…
Well this is it you see. Apparently my brother was never at the beach that day. Somebody saw him arguing with a man in a red gilet in a lay-by off the B3230 near Barnstaple
Uh-huh, the one mystery I’ve never solved
Everything changed that day
You're right, David. Excuse me while I take the Zoomer down to the beach and stare out to sea for a bit
Sue: Where’s Terry?
Gary: He fell and broke his elbow out on delivery on Saturday.
Sue: Has he not come in?
Gary: No, it’s really bad if you break your elbow.
Sue: Well, he came in that time that dog bit his finger off. He doesn’t go sick doesn’t Terry.
I do, yes. The destructive side to my character is testament to that.
That’s right. I’m uncompromising too. And unconventional
When I’m on the case conventional procedure goes out the window
I DID try to solve a crime once but my boss said I didn’t have time
I had to sell it a couple of years later when I was broke 😢
Found this pic from 2005 when scooters were brilliant but digital cameras were rubbish. My excellent Honda Zoomer. Rode it to and from work every day for two years and only filled it up three times. At £2.50 a tank it wasn't much more expensive to run than a push bike
How come builders often play their radios so loudly for whole communities to hear for weeks on end? I think If I had their taste in music I’d be keen to keep it under wraps
Mavis: Stay there love. I’ll come to the window
Me: It’s ok, I’ve not got anything for you
Mavis: Right-o love, I’ll come to the window
Me: DON’T WORRY, I’VE NOTHING FOR YOU
Passing Neighbour: MAVIS! HE’S NOTHING FOR YOU!
Mavis: Hiya love
Me: I’ve nothing for you
Mavis: You should have said
Photo of the Watersons’ Green Fields album sleeve
Up the punx ✊
Nice interview with John Smith in the @thequietus.com
thequietus.com/interviews/m...
Back of a truck with ON TOE written on it
ON TOE
